Newgrove

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newgrove, from 17 m² to 186,963 m² (18.7 ha, 46.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Newgrove in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

• 12 Jun 2023Conditional

  for new dwellinghouse, domestic garage with sump & pump to main sewer & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360639

• 5 Aug 2022Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 237.75sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260801

• 17 May 2022N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 197.34 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22635

• 21 Feb 2018Conditional

  to repair and renovate existing Church including modification, renovation and re-construction of the balcony at the rear of the main Church, replacement of front and side doors to Church and to replace existing front boundary wall with 450mm high stone wall incorporating stone piers and original stone cross, together with associated works detailed in application documents and drawings. St. Patrick's Church is a protected structure with Ref. No. 67 in Galway Co. Co. Record of Protected Structures and has National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Ref. No. 30404603.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18191

• 19 Jun 2017Conditional

  to repair and renovate existing church including modification and renovation of toilets to provide accessible toilet facilities, re-roofing lean-to single storey sacristy and toilet block by slightly raising roof pitch, rendering exterior of church with lime render except for a section at the side of old church, rendering interior of church with lime render except for section at side of main church surrounding 3 number limestone framed arches which is to have exposed limestone, construct wainscoting around perimeter of church, upgrade heating and ventilation, create access between old church and sacristy, repair and renovate limestone surround to side door of old church, replace plasterboard wall at front of church gallery with vertical timber balustrade and handrail, paint church, repair existing timber floors and replace remaining floor coverings, re-open original coach entrance in side wall of old church to form arched window opening, construct vehicular entrance at north western end of church to allow for the construction of 2 new disabled access car parking spaces on the church grounds, together with associated works detailed in application documents and drawings. Saint Patricks Church is a protected structure with reference no. 67 in Galway County Council Record of Protected Structures and has National Inventory of Architectural Heritage reference no. 30404603, at Saint Patricks R.C. Church

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17900

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 the townland of Newgrove.

Recorded monuments

• GA046-071 Church
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic Church, built c.1870, altar at west end, and having six-bay nave. Three-bay double-height flat-roofed side chapel to north was an earlier smaller church, itself an adaptation of an earlier grain store. Late twentieth-century lean-to single-storey WC block adjacent. Pitched natural slate roof with limestone copings, gable-front surmounted by stone cross finial. Replacement aluminium rainwater goods to nave, cast-iron rainwater goods to side chapel. Rendered and painted walls with draughted and pecked quoins. Round-headed stained-glass leaded windows, single to nave, double to gable-front and triple-light to altar gable, with draughted and pecked limestone block-and-start surrounds and sills. Oculus stained-glass leaded window to gable-front with cut limestone voussoirs. Round-headed entrance to gable-front with double-leaf timber twelve-panel door with stained-glass memorial fanlight above and draughted and pecked limestone block-and-start surround. Interior has sheeted timber ceiling and king-post truss roof supported on hanging posts and limestone brackets. Choir balcony to east end of nave with plastered front and glazed entrance below. Altar to west end of nave. Raised side chapel to north with round-headed stained-glass windows. Building set parallel to road with gardens to north, west and east and rendered boundary wall to with ashlar stone piers and metal gates to road, freestanding belfry to rear.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Newgrove, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Newgrove.

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.

No address of the register names Newgrove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Newgrove · An Garrán Nua

Area

625,386 m² (62.54 ha, 154.54 acres)

Civil parish

Killian, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

647 people lived in 225 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghbrack, Creeveroe (Davies), Newbridge, Woodbrook

Placenames

Newgrove on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.