Land parcel 5838240

Area

667 m²

Buildings

5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 389 m².

Zoning

R3 Residential (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 14 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for development which consists of: THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF demolition of an existing 3 storey rear extension and construction of a two storey rear extension and minor internal and external alterations to the main house. Alterations to a rear two storey mews building fronting onto Palmyra Avenue to include partial change of use to habitable accommodation, external alterations to include provision of two new window/door openings, a replacement roof and floor structure, rear roof mounted solar panels, lime plaster to external walls and other minor internal and external alterations and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway City Council, 2660296

• 21 Feb 2025Conditional

  Permission for development which consists of: alterations to an existing dwelling including the replacement of an existing two storey rear extension with a new rear two storey extension (58.1 SqM), minor internal alternations, integrated services and all associated external works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway City Council, 2560053

• 2 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission for development which will consist of the revision of approved Plan Ref no. 18/43 at 8, The Crescent, Galway which involves a protected structure ( RPS 10208 ) to comprise : reduction in size and height of previously proposed new rear extension to single storey extension; minor internal changes; and part lowering of ground level to front of house

  Permission, 1 home · Galway City Council, 20313

• 14 Feb 2018Conditional

  Permission for development to comprise: removal of non historic extensions to rear; new contemporary extension to rear comprising living/dining/kitchen, bedrooms and ancillary accommodation; lowering of basement floor level; additional stud partitions and blocking up some opes, modification to existing stairs; modifications to existing non historic stud partitions; insertion of conservation roof windows to rear; and re roofing to include re use of existing slates and provision of roofing felt; (RPS10208)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway City Council, 1843

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

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey over half-basement house, built c.1850, being three-storey to rear. Now in use as office. Three-storey return to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, oversailing rendered eaves course with copper alloy-clad parapet to front. Concealed rainwater goods to front elevation and cast-iron rainwater goods to rear. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to front elevation and rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and with single six-over-six pane to rear elevation. Replacement timber casement window with concrete sill and protective grille to half-basement. Round-headed door opening to front within render doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with plinths and surmounted by open-bed moulded pediment. Replacement timber panelled door with brass door furniture and having fanlight. Tooled limestone stepped approach with cast-iron hand rails. Square-headed door opening to half-basement level with replacement timber and overlight, approached by flight of concrete steps. House has garden to front enclosed by decorative cast-iron railings and gate with tooled limestone gate piers.

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 gives no landslide susceptibility class here. 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.