Land parcel 5535840

Area

7,581 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres)

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,465 m².

Zoning

S3 Community Culture and Institutional (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

• Lenaboy Castle, castle/fortified house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan former country house, dated 1859, front façade having central stepped-plan tower, front (entrance) part being single-bay and three-stage with canted oriel window to first floor and rear part being four-stage, flanked by gable-fronted two-bay projection to south side and two-bay two-storey block to north side. Further two-bay two-storey pile to rear of northern half of building and two-bay two-storey return to rear of southern part. South elevation has single-bay two-storey projection to east end and two-bay two-storey block to west, with flat-roof box-bay window in outer corner between the two parts. Building incorporates fabric of medieval tower house of c.U-plan two-storey former outbuildings attached to rear of north part of house. Now in use as Health Service Executive facility. Pitched slate roof, hipped to rear pile, with ashlar limestone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut limestone copings with kneelers, and moulded cornices to front and south facades. Ashlar limestone walls with cut limestone plinth, and cut limestone sill course to first floor. Crenellated parapets to tower. Ashlar limestone surround to oriel window supported on moulded corbelling and with moulded parapet. Decorative roundels to front projection, that to gable having date. Front and south facades have square-headed transomed and mullioned window openings, triple-light except for front projection openings which are double-light, having label-mouldings except for outer first floor bays of front and south elevations. Replacement uPVC windows throughout. Four-centered arched door opening to tower with double-leaf timber panelled door, recessed chamfered ashlar limestone surround, limestone label-moulding with label stops, carved spandrels and ashlar limestone step. Outbuildings east-facing elevation is seven bays, flanked by two-bay north-facing and three-bay south-facing returns. Multiple-bay two-storey rear return to north end. Hipped and pitched slate roof, with ashlar limestone, rendered and red-brick chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters, rubble granite and lined-and-ruled rendered walls and limestone sill courses. Square-headed openings with block-and-start limestone surrounds, limestone sills and replacement timber and uPVC windows. Square-headed tripartite door opening in former segmental carriage arch, having render surround and timber glazed door flanked by replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with timber sills and stall risers. Flat-roof two-bay two-storey addition to rear of main block with cast-iron water tank, and further single-storey flat-roof extensions. Further single-storey outbuildings to north and south, with rubble stone walls and pitched slate roofs, one with red-brick chimneystack. Set within fields and accessed by paved road.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_454 (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.

Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.