Garbally Demesne

338 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garbally Demesne, from 3 m² to 525,593 m² (52.56 ha, 129.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 60 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential (Existing) (Existing residential)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 284 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space / Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (Phase 1) (New/proposed residential)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential Infill (New/proposed residential)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6Public Utilities (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Commercial / Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  to construct a single storey dwelling house, treatment system, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26214

• 24 Aug 2026N/a

  to demolish part of existing dwelling house and construct extension to private dwelling house; decommission existing waste water treatment system and install new waste water treatment system; construct private store to include all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26212

• 16 Jan 2026Unconditional

  for the construction of 8 detached houses and retention of 2 existing raft foundations, plus garages and all ancillary site works. This application is an infill development of an existing residential scheme in Bachelors Walk. The suite of planning documents contains a 'Natura Impact Statement' for the development. Gross floor space of proposed works 4645 sqm.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 264

• 11 Aug 2025Conditional

  for a new Emergency Department extension covering 310 sq metres of single storey extension with rooftop plant room and internal refurbishment of the existing department. At the existing lower ground floor level, a new public entrance lobby with security room will be formed adjacent a reconfigured ambulance drop-off and set-down area. The extension will provide 9 new patient cubicles, including gynaecology treatment room and associated staff and clinical support facilities. The extension will link into the existing building by way of a new accessible reception, leading to a newly formed dedicated paediatric waiting area and WC. The existing emergency department will undergo a series of phased internal refurbishment works to provide modernised staff changing facilities, additional patient treatment cubicles and reconfigured storage and staff support facilities. The works will include a reconfiguration of the existing internal campus 2-way traffic flow to become a 1-way traffic flow in the vicinity of the Emergency Department extension, formation of a new accessible set-down area, reconfigured ambulance drop-off areas and works to form a new pedestrian crossing and improve accessibility and safety around the immediate site. Drainage, water, and electrical utility connections will be made within the campus to the existing site infrastructure, and all other ancillary site works as required to facilitate the project

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561096

• 27 Jun 2025Conditional

  for alterations and additions to the existing dwelling house including; 1. new side and rear extensions, 2. the widening of the existing site entrance and driveway, 3. the conversion of the existing garage & 4. alterations to the fenestration and internal layout of the existing dwelling house, along with all the associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 31.61 sqm(extension). Demolition: 4.8 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560856

• 27 Jun 2025Conditional

  for alterations and additions to the existing dwelling house including the removal of the existing rear annex and the provision of a new rear extension and all the associates site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 65.88 sqm(extension). Gross floor space of any demolition: 8.45 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560857

• 4 Apr 2025Conditional

  for the alterations, extensions, and conversion of two private dwellings into a single private dwelling. Works to include: 1) The demolition of an existing lean to extension with internal and external alterations of an existing dwelling which is also a protected structure (RPS No.176 & NIAH Ref:30333065); 2) The demolition of an existing single storey utility and front porch of a separate existing dwelling and the construction of a new two storey extension, dormer windows, and bay window to the front and side of same with associated internal and external alterations; 3) The construction of a new single storey link extension between the two dwellings to convert the buildings into single occupancy; 4) The demolition of an existing ancillary shed; and 5) All associated site development works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560372

• 28 Mar 2025Conditional

  to demolish exiting single storey extension to dwelling house, to demolish existing shed and store buildings, to build a single and two storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling house, and to build a garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: (Ext)102 sqm & (G) 40 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 89.7 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560342

• 27 Mar 2025Refused

  of a mobile home and permission to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (H) 51.22 sqm & (G) 53.94 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 38.69 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2554

• 24 Oct 2024Conditional

  to construct a new utility,store and plant room to rear of existing dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works: 29 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461426

• 20 Jul 2023Conditional

  for the development consisting of a new modular building for the Outpatients Department including waiting area and link corridor (507 sq metres), an adjacent standalone modular office building (11 sq metres). The gross internal floor area of the buildings is 518 sq metres. A new 54 sqm external covered roof canopy between the main hospital building & the Outpatients Department. Works included drainage works to connect to the existing site services & all ancillary site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2360810

• 23 Feb 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 53.88 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361

• 21 Oct 2022Conditional

  of dwelling house and all associated ancillary site works.Gross floor space of works to be retained 123.90sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261062

• 22 Sept 2022Conditional

  of a new CT suite and associated rooms and includes the completion of a new build floorspace within the footprint of an existing ground floor undercroft to the west side of the hospital. The project incorporates an associated roof top plant room required to service the new CT suite, the plant room is located at second floor level above the first floor ICU. The works include drainage works to connect to the existing building and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 636.00 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2260955

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  for the construction of 8 detached houses and retention of 2 existing raft foundations, plus garages and all ancillary site works. This application is an infill development of an existing residential scheme in Bachelors Walk. The suite of planning documents contains a 'Natura Impact Statement' for the development. Gross floor space of proposed works 4645 sqm.

  Permission, 8 homes · Galway County Council, 211931

• 7 Sept 2021Conditional

  for development on this site consisting of the demolition of existing substandard detached 3-bedroom dwelling house and the construction of a four-bedroom detached dwelling house, alterations to existing site entrance and front boundary wall, and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 175 sqm (house). Gross floor space of any demolition: 110 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211629

• 2 Sept 2021Conditional

  to demolish an existing dwelling house and to construct two dwelling houses together with all ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 180 sqm.

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 211597

• 26 Aug 2021Unconditional

  for development that will consist of an extension to the existing hospital to provide a new 50 bed ward block over two floors including ancillary accommodation and associated circulation routes linking back to the existing hospital. New service road and all associated site development works (gross floor space 4355sqm)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 211550

• 22 Jun 2021Conditional

  to demolish 32 sq. meters of living area & 6.2 sq meters of an external storage shed. Replacing same with 74.47 sq. meters of living accommodation, inclusive of a utility room & 2 no. bedrooms.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211101

• 27 May 2021Refused

  to construct a new dwelling, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 171sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21929

• 17 May 2021Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to the rear of the existing school block (east), comprising of one room with an en-suite and circulation area and the erection of a steel storage shed, along with connections to all services and all other associated site works. The proposed development is within the curtilage of protected structures. Gross floor space of proposed works: 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21828

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  to complete the development previously granted planning permission reference 11/9031 for development at this site: AT Cross, Deerpark, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. The development will consist of demolition of existing warehouse block (approx. 831 sqm) and 3 no. water tanks to rear, modifications to existing production warehouse area comprising of roof height increase and change in roof profile. The proposed development also includes elevational changes to existing two storey office section to front comprising new steel cladding, new glazing configuration, new parapet walls of varying height and new brise-soleil shading units. The proposed development includes 2 no. sunken dock levelers and loading bays to rear as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of any demolition: 831 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21772

• 11 Jan 2021Refused

  for the construction of a detached two storey dwelling, including ancillary site services.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2112

• 13 Aug 2020Refused

  for the change of house plans from that previously approved under planning ref. 09/9030. Gross floor space of proposed works 196sqm. Previous Planning Ref 17/1217

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 201130

• 15 May 2020Conditional

  for a new switchroom for the enabling works to the future extension of hospital (planning ref: 16/704) at Portiuncula University Hospital, Dunlo Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, H53 T971. The proposed development is for a new single storey rendered switch room (area of switch room 140 sqm) both existing and proposed generators are to be enclosed behind fences and associated site development works for same. Gross floor space of proposed works; 140sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20601

The 25 most recent of 37 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballinasloe Esker 001779

Recorded monuments

• GA087-069 Enclosure
  Description

  On a hillock in undulating grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1945-6) as a roughly oval enclosure (N-S c. 40m, E-W c. 30m). The monument has been levelled and all that survives is a denuded subcircular area (E-W 50m, N-S 46m). According to local information, this was the site of a 'rath' which was cleared just recently. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-070 Enclosure
  Description

  On a hillock in undulating grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1946) as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. This was the site of a 'rath' according to local information. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-071 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hill in undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (N-S 49m, E-W 41m), in fair condition, defined by a bank from SSE through S to NW, and elsewhere by a scarp. Gap (Wth 4m) at E could be original. A ringfort (GA087-071001-) lies c. 30m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-071001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Circa 30m SE of a ringfort (GA087-071----). Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 32m, E-W 27.5m) defined by a degraded bank. A slight depression evident from SSW through W to N may indicate an external fosse. Quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing element at SE and SSW. A gap (Wth 3m) at E may be original. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-072 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In grassland, immediately NW of the Ballinasloe-Aughrim road. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1946) as a subrectangular unenclosed area (NNW-SSE c. 30m, ENE-WSW c. 20m). It consists of a slightly raised area delimited by a scarp, except from NW to NE where it has been destroyed by quarrying and the construction of farm buildings. Within the interior, some randomly placed limestone blocks, barely visible above ground level, may indicate grave-markers. According to local information, the area was tilled in the 1940s. A tower house (GA087-179----) lies c. 250m to SW and two ringforts (GA087-071----, GA087-071001-) c. 300m to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-073 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In former demesne land on W outskirts of Ballinasloe town. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Mahe McTully' (Nolan, 1901b, 110). No visible surface trace survives: a 19th-C ornamental spire now marks the site (Egan 1960, 68). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-074 Country house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA087-075 Icehouse
  Description

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• GA087-076 Crannog
  Description

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• GA087-077 Crannog
  Description

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• GA087-078 Earthwork
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1946) as a circular mound (D c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-079 Burial ground
  Description

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• GA087-080 Tunnel
  Description

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• GA087-081 Fish-pond
  Description

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• GA087-082 Church
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland. Egan (1960, 120) identifies this as the site of the RC parish church of Kilcloony which was built in 1729. According to him (ibid.), it was oriented N-S, 'had pointed windows in the western wall' and 'in length ... measured 'forty-five feet [13.7m]'. The area is now occupied by a farmyard and a plain modern-looking rectangular outbuilding (N-S; L 13.1m, Wth 7m), used to house calves, now occupies the site. No architectural features survive. A holy well (GA087-212----) lies c. 200m to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-083 Church
  Description

  Within St Joseph's Terrace, a housing estate to W of Portinuncula hospital, in Ballinasloe town. According to Egan (1960, 15), 'there is some evidence of a church in Dunlo in Kilcloony parish in the tenth century, the high church yard, or infants' burial ground was the seventeenth century name. Its position is shown on 'Petty's Atlas'. In 1955, during the construction of the housing estate, 'large quantities of adult human remains were unearthed' along with 'associated finds, a bronze harp-peg and pin and a bone spindle whorl' (ibid.; Topgr. Files , NMI). No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-083001 Graveyard
  Description

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• GA087-085 School
  Description

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Architectural heritage

• Garbally, gate lodge, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay former gate lodge, built 1864, now in use as house, comprising single-storey gabled central block having dormer floor, flanked by single-bay blocks with loggias, and with projecting canted bay to north, addressing main road. Recent L-plan two-storey extension to rear of central block. Slate roofs, pitched to central block and hipped elsewhere, with wide eaves overhanging and rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Moulded and leaded roof to canted bay, with moulded eaves course. Dressed limestone walls with cut-stone plinth, front elevation of central block having end pilasters supporting cut-stone open-bed pediment. Central block has paired round-headed window openings to first floor openings and square-headed to ground floor, set into raised carved centrepiece, having moulded sill to first floor with panels beneath atop moulded cornice borne on brackets over pilasters to ground floor openings. Round-headed window openings to canted bay, separated by pilasters, with cut-stone eaves bands, moulded impost course and archivolts and cut-stone sills. Replacement uPVC windows throughout. Round arches to loggias have moulded imposts and archivolts and square-profile piers. Round-headed door openings to inner side of loggias with timber panelled doors. Located on elevated site to west of Ballinasloe town.

• Ard na Gréine, house, 1890–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1910, with canted bay windows with flat roofs to front (north) elevation, and later single-bay single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with render copings and eaves course, and rendered end chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls with render quoins and plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, with continuous sills to bay windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door, overlights and sidelights. Garden to front bounded by dressed limestone wall having curved coping, and double-leaf metal gates to panelled rendered piers and quadrant walls with similar terminating piers.

• Brackernagh National School, school, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey H-plan former school, built c.1820, with projecting end bays. Now in use as houses. Hipped slate roof with cut limestone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut snecked limestone walls with cut-stone quoins. Square-headed window openings, those to middle four bays having bipartite mullioned timber windows and those to projections and to east elevation having tripartite windows. Bipartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to first floor of east projection. All windows having tooled cut-stone block-and-start surrounds and sills, and all front-facing windows having label-mouldings except for timber sash window. Square-headed door openings to middle two bays and to re-entrant sides of projections, with timber battened and replacement uPVC doors, cut-stone hood-mouldings and tooled block-and-start surrounds. Yard to front entered through wrought-iron pedestrian gate set to square-profile carved limestone piers, flanked by wrought-iron railings on cut-stone plinth.

• Garbally, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodges, built c.1850, now in use as private houses and flanking public road. Recent lean-to extensions to north elevation of both lodges. Hipped reslated roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Ashlar limestone walls with plinth and moulded cornice. Short walls and outer long walls that face into gateway have limestone frames. Square-headed window openings to short sides, with moulded cornices, and round-headed openings to gate sides having voussoirs, all with cut-stone sills and replacement uPVC windows and replacement timber doors. South gate lodge has later lean-to addition to gate-side elevation with rendered walls, slate roof and square-headed uPVC windows. Carved limestone gate piers to east end of each lodge, having plinths, moulded panels, moulded cornices and pyramidal-topped caps, with surviving half of cast-iron double-leaf gate attached to south lodge. Quadrants formed by plinth walls with cast-iron railings extending to south from south lodge and to north from north lodge.

• Garbally, gate lodge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1860, with recent extension to rear (south) elevation. Pitched roof with cut limestone eaves course with brackets, and rendered chimneystack. Dressed limestone walls with raised cut-stone quoins. Round-headed window openings, triple to west elevation, with raised cut-stone surrounds and sills with replacement timber windows. Round-headed door opening with carved limestone doorcase comprising archivolt with keystone supported on piers, flanked by pilasters, all with capitals and plinths. Round-headed double-leaf glazed timber panelled door. Cut limestone boundary wall to front of site with wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Rubble limestone demesne wall with crenellated coping stones to east of site.

• Garbally, outbuilding, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of farmyard, built c.1820, comprising detached multiple-bay two-storey range to south, having central half-hexagonal three-bay breakfront to middle of front (north) elevation, and remains of detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to north and west ranges of yard. Remains of hipped slate roofs with cut limestone chimneystacks and cut limestone eaves course. Pitched slate roof to west range. Rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and voussoirs. Square-headed door openings with cut limestone voussoirs and timber battened doors. Segmental-headed carriage arches with cut limestone voussoirs. Recent outbuildings to centre of yard. Located to north of Garbally House.

• Garbally, icehouse, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Subterranean icehouse, built c.1800. No longer in use. Comprising circular-profile vault, approached by four cut limestone steps in entrance passage. Rubble limestone walls, with brick-lined walls and ceiling to vault. Square-headed door opening with dressed limestone keystone. Set in dense woodland, located within former Garbally Demesne.

• Garbally, obelisk, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding hollow limestone obelisk, erected 1811. Octagonal-profile carved stone structure having ribs to angles and graduated elliptical piercings to faces. Scrolled bottoms to ribs, over concave-profile base. Set on heavy stone square-profile plinth having moulded cornice, recessed panels to two side and slightly projecting centrepieces to other sides, with moulded string courses over plinths, all atop stepped base having canted corner piers. Located to south-west of Garbally House, in demesne.

• Garbally, country house, 1815–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey over basement country house, built 1819, having two internal courtyards, renovated and courtyards filled in c.1850. Now in use as secondary school. Front (north) and side (east and west) elevations have eleven bays and south has nine bays. Three bays of each end of front and west elevations are set into slight advances, and front elevation has tetrastyle porte cochère flanked by less advanced two-bay porticos. South elevation has middle five bays recessed slightly, with bowed flat-roofed three-bay single-storey former porch, doorway now accommodating window. East elevation has fully exposed basement, middle seven bays are set back between two-storey two-bay wide and deep returns with single-bay two-storey flat-roof blocks to re-entrant corners. Northern has slightly lower single-bay two-storey block to east, three-bay single-storey flat-roofed addition to east again and three-bay single-storey outbuilding to south. Southern return to house has multiple-bay two-storey block to east. East elevation of house and blocks to east form three-sided yard with cobbled surface. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, moulded limestone parapets and cornices. Rendered walls with cut limestone platband between floors, plinth course and moulded sill courses. Cut coursed limestone walls to bowed former porch. Square decorative ceramic heraldic plaques to first floor above same. Snecked limestone walls to blocks of re-entrant corners and to blocks to east of northern return. Square-headed window openings having moulded limestone surrounds, those to ground floor having alternating segmental and triangular pediments, and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Former doorway to porch has timber panelled to base of window, and cut limestone step. Square-headed door opening to north elevation, having timber panelled double-leaf door, with multi-pane margined overlight and carved limestone surround comprising pilasters with plinths, capitals and entablature, and with cut limestone step to width of porte cochère. Porte cochère comprises carved limestone tetrastyle Doric portico flanked by shallower bays with respondent pilasters, all with moulded bases and capitals and supporting entablature and moulded cornice with modillions. Decorative cast-iron double-leaf gates and cut limestone balustrade to either side of west elevation. House set in mature landscape with formal terraced gardens, having cut limestone steps to west, and sun dial on cut and carved limestone pedestal to south. Garden entrance to north-east having cast-iron double-leaf gate with square-profile cut-stone piers, flanking spear-headed railings on cut-stone plinth wall. Disused five-bay single-storey garden structure having ashlar limestone loggia with arcaded front, end bays slightly advanced, having moulded cornice and plinths, round-headed doorway and window openings to inner wall with margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with bars, and square-headed doorways to end walls leading to rear. Glasshouse adjacent has cast-iron superstructure over ashlar limestone plinth wall, with coping and plinth.

• Garbally, building misc, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay three-storey school buildings, built c.1940, having slightly advanced bay to north-west end of main elevation, full-width open single-storey passage block to front of same elevation, full-height return to rear, and single, two, and three-storey additions to south-east and rear elevations. Two-storey linking block connecting to rear of main school building. Flat roofs with moulded render cornice and parapet, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with render eaves band and with moulded sill course continuing to form cornice of single-storey block. Square-profile rendered piers to single-storey block with capitals and plinth. Square-headed window openings with moulded rendered surrounds and timber sliding sash windows throughout all elevations, nine-over-nine pane to first floor, six-over-six to top floor, and three-over-three to ground floor of north-west end elevation. Mixed two-over-two, six-over-six and four-over-four pane windows to return and additions. Building located to east of country house.

• Garbally, stables, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Closed U-plan two-storey former stableyard, built c.1820, of limestone and comprising eleven-bay range to east, lacking some openings to ground floor, and having integral carriage arch to middle of façade. Nine-bay ranges to north and south, and boundary wall to west. Now in use as classrooms. Pitched slate roofs to north and south ranges, hipped to east ends, hipped slate roof to east range, with cut-stone chimneystacks and eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods with stone troughs. Snecked dressed stone walls with cut-stone plinth course. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone block-and-start surrounds and cut-stone sills with replacement timber windows. Square-headed door openings with tooled stone block-and-start surrounds with timber battened doors. Openings to west elevation of east range set in segmental-headed cut-stone arcade flush with walls with proud keystones. Round vehicular arch with carved stone surround to both elevations of east range, having carved stone pediment and Giant Order pilasters, and with raised rectangular stone panel beneath pediment. Vehicular carriage opening to west side of yard, with double-leaf cast-iron gate flanked by round-arch pedestrian entrances with cast-iron gates, cut-stone archivolts with keystones and imposts, flanked by square-profile rusticated stone piers with flat caps. Rubble stone boundary walls with cut-stone copings. Located to east of country house.

• Garbally, gate lodge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan two-storey former gate lodge, built c.1860, of limestone and having two-bay long sides and suingle-bay short sides. Single-storey flat-roofed open-sided porch completes plan at north-east corner. Slightly advanced centres to east and north elevations, east having canted bay window. Recent single-storey extension with hipped roof to west elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack and concave cut-stone eaves course. Coursed cut-stone walls with plinth, having slightly recessed corners, cut-stone sill course above moulded stone string course, latter continuing to form cornice to porch and bay window. Channelled rusticated pier to corner of porch. Segmental-headed window opening to first floor of east elevation, set in segmental-headed recess, and having carved moulded stone surround and double one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, eaves to each side being borne on carved stone brackets. Square-headed window openings to first floor of north elevation and pseudo-three-centred arch window openings to ground floor of north, south and east elevations, all with moulded stone surrounds and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed arches to porch, having moulded archivolts and imposts with keystones, set into square-headed recesses. Segmental-headed door opening set within porch and having timber panelled door.

• Garbally, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Garbally country house, erected c.1860, comprising double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate flanked by rectangular-profile carved limestone piers with moulded corners to recessed sides, carved panels, pyramidal caps over moulded cornices, in turn flanked by matching cast-iron pedestrian gates and further matching piers, with tooled limestone quadrant plinth walls beyond these with copings and plinths and having matching cast-iron railings with terminating square-profile channelled rusticated piers. Spherical cut limestone wheelguards to vehicular piers.

• Garbally, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former entrance gates to Garbally to west of gate lodge, erected c.1860, consisting of ornate cast-iron double-leaf gate set to carved limestone piers with dentillated flat capstones and decorative panels on plinths, flanked by matching cast-iron railings on similar plinths, in turn flanked by matching piers, and matching cast-iron railings on cut limestone plinth walls with copings and plinths. Terminating carved limestone piers with vermiculated channelled rustication. Located to north of Garbally Demesne and to west of Ballinasloe town.

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Radon

At the centre of the townland of Garbally Demesne, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1315 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

• Garbally Demesne, Ballinasloe5 sales

Name

Garbally Demesne · An Garbhaile

Area

4,331,893 m² (433.19 ha, 1,070.43 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcloony, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Ballinasloe Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

7,361 people lived in 2,616 households in the Ballinasloe Urban electoral division. 55% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackernagh (Clancarty), Caher, Cleaghmore, Deerpark, Dunlo, Glennavaddoge, Knocknagreana, Loughbown, Mackney, Tobergrellan, Townparks

Placenames

Garbally Demesne on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

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