Demesne

390 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Demesne, from 7 m² to 138,799 m² (13.88 ha, 34.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 56 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 350 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Business and Technology (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.2Industrial (General industry)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential Infill (New/proposed residential)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Business and Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 19 Feb 2026Conditional

  of the rear extension to the dwellinghouse, the conversion of the garage to living quarters, the existing storage sheds and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660262

• 2 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct shed to cover existing vehicle storage yard to accommodate vehicle storage and maintenance to include all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25224

• 30 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct a part single storey / part two storey extension to rear of existing Building B1, incorporating utility plant rooms, circulation corridor and emergency escape stairs. Retention Permission for 4 No. single storey portacabins and relocation of 3 No. of same within the site for office and staff welfare use, ancillary to the main industrial use of the site

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561043

• 23 May 2025Conditional

  to vary P.A. Ref. No. 24/61408 consisting of a two storey modular building; consisting of revisions to the permitted modular building to include (i) a two storey extension to the rear (south-west) of the structure adding approximately 21 sqm of gross floor space to that permitted under P.A. Ref. No. 24/61408; (ii) reconfiguration of internal floorspace; (iii) minor elevational changes including re-positioning and re-sizing of openings and the insertion of 2 no. new windows on the south-east elevation; and (iv) modifications to the permitted surface water drainage strategy

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560643

• 23 Oct 2024Conditional

  of the construction of a two storey stand-alone modular building accommodating additional classrooms to the south of the main school building and revisions to the existing internal road and car parking to facilitate the proposed building. Access to the proposed building is via the existing vehicular access to the school. It is also proposed to upgrade pedestrian facilities on the existing road network in the vicinity of the site as part of the proposal. The proposed development provides for all associated site development works, including utilities, services, landscaping and boundary treatments. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1,202.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461408

• 21 Aug 2024Conditional

  for: 1. The construction of a new two storey warehouse facility. This facility will include warehouse space, HGV loading and unloading area, staff welfare and offices. 2. Provision of associated site infrastructure of 42 no. car parking facilities (including 6 no. electric vehicle parking spaces) and 10 no. sheltered bicycle stands. 3.Provision of hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatments, site lighting, roof mounted photovoltaic panels, and external logo signage. 4. Utility and services infrastructure and all other associated and ancillary development and works above and below ground level. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development. Gross floor space of proposed works: 5034.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461090

• 18 Jan 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of an existing medical surgery and for all ancillary site works and services. Previous planning references 04/4818 and 06/3097 relate to the property. Gross floor space of proposed works: 71.6 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460047

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  of alterations to the layout, elevations, overall height of the existing dwelling house & all associated works, which was originally granted permission under planning reference 03/3487 & for all other ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360694

• 4 May 2023Conditional

  to construct 2 No. additional bedrooms, one on ground floor and one on first floor, extend existing function room at first floor level, provide additional car parking spaces to rear of hotel incl. all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23176

• 1 Apr 2023Conditional

  for a development that consists of a single storey extension, comprising of covered external link, habitable room and en-suite, with proposed new entrance way to the side of existing dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360326

• 24 Mar 2023Conditional

  for the following: (a) the demolition of a substandard dwelling house at the above location & derelict sheds on site (Gross floor area of proposed works = 125 sqm); (b) the construction of 3 No. townhouse dwelling units with associated private open space at rear. (Gross floor area of proposed works = 275 sqm); and (c) the provision of a pedestrian access to the rear of the proposed units and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360287

• 15 Feb 2023Conditional

  of the conversion of the garage to living quarters and its associated new roof and all ancillary site works.Gross floor space of works to be retained 14 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360117

• 27 Jan 2023N/a

  of a single storey extension, comprising of covered external link, habitable room and en-suite. With proposed new entrance way, to the side of existing dwelling.Gross floor space of work to be retained 42.00sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2360052

• 18 Jan 2023Conditional

  for alterations to the layout, elevations, overall height of our existing dwelling house and all associated works, which was originally granted permission under planning reference 03/3487.Gross floor space of work to be retained 179.00sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360022

• 30 Sept 2022Conditional

  for additional carpark spaces on a site with revised boundaries from that previously granted under planning ref. no 01/728. To retain minor alteration to parking layout to front of hotel from that previously granted under planning ref. no 01/728. To provide additional car parking spaces to side of existing hotel. To provide 4 no electric car charging points. To incl. all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 3185 sqm of carparking spaces

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221087

• 5 Jul 2022Conditional

  for alterations to the layout, elevations and overall height of the existing dwelling house at the aforementioned address from the original plans submitted with planning application 03/3487. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 180.10 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22853

• 24 May 2022Refused

  to construct 2 No additional bedrooms, one on ground floor and one on first floor, extend existing function room at the first floor level incl. all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 140sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22667

• 12 May 2022Conditional

  to retain and complete a dwelling house with revised plans to those previously granted under planning references previously 11/759 & 16/1138 which includes a rear first floor extension. Gross floor space of work to be retained 149.00sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260468

• 8 Feb 2022Conditional

  for alterations to the layout, elevations and overall height of the dwelling house at the aforementioned address from the original plans submitted with planning 03-3487. Gross floor space of works t be retained: 180.10 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22132

• 2 Feb 2022Conditional

  Retention of Extension to Side and Rear of dwelling house, including side window and all associated works (constructed approximately in 2000) and all associated works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2260056

• 8 Nov 2021Conditional

  for: a) The retention of a ground floor extension to the rear/side of our dwelling house, and to now remodel this extension, b) To construct a new first floor side/rear extension incorporating a bedroom, and c) To construct a new sloped roof to replace the existing flat roof over our first floor, front dormer windows and all associated works.

  Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 212077

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  for the construction of 2 single storey extensions to the rear and side of an existing dwelling and for the relocation of an existing domestic garage serving same. Gross floor space of proposed works 214 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211968

• 16 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct an extension to the existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works is 15 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211299

• 1 Jul 2021Conditional

  for changing an existing window to double glazed doors with a side glazed panel to the front of the house.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211179

• 22 Mar 2021N/a

  for retention permission for changing an existing window to double glazed doors with a side glazed panel to the front of the house

  Retention · Galway County Council, 21423

The 25 most recent of 55 applications.

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 Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• GA029-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). 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

• GA029-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a circular enclosure (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

• GA029-066 Kiln - lime
  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.

• GA029-067 Ecclesiastical residence
  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.

• GA029-209 Memorial stone
  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

• The Palace, bishop's palace, 1715–1725 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay three-storey over basement Church of Ireland bishop's palace, built 1720-1, on a rectangular plan centred on three-bay three-storey breakfront; seven-bay three-storey rear (north) elevation centred on three-bay three-storey breakfront. "Improved", 1823, producing present composition. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1950. Adapted to alternative use, ----. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with ridge tiles, raised rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having ogee-detailed stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on cut-limestone moulded cushion course on rendered base with cut-limestone stringcourse (first floor). Square-headed central door opening, dragged cut-limestone doorcase with fluted Ionic pilasters on pedestals supporting pediment on blind frieze on entablature framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings to rear (north) elevation with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, and decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling on rosette-detailed Doric frieze centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose in tied reed frame; remodelled staircase hall (south-west); dining room (south-east) retaining carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, segmental-headed buffet niche with Classical-style surround including egg-and-dart-detailed archivolt, and decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling on urn-and-swag-detailed frieze centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose; pair of drawing rooms (north) retaining carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, and decorative plasterwork cornices to ceilings on swag-detailed friezes centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling roses; and (upper floors): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in relandscaped grounds.

• Mayfield House, house, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1905, having shallow breakfront fronted by later flat-roofed porch, and four-over-three-bay east, garden, elevation having two single-storey canted bay windows and west having one. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cement-rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout, bay windows having heavy cement cornices and blocking courses, with tooled limestone sills. Square-headed doorway to porch with glazed timber door having sidelights and overlights.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_748 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Demesne · Diméin an Ardeaspaig

Area

1,512,594 m² (151.26 ha, 373.77 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Tuam Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tuam Rural electoral division: 6,556 people in 2,346 households; 65% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackacre, Fortyacres, Kilcloghans, Mountpotter, Slievedarragh, Townparks (1st Division), Townparks (4th Division), Townparks (5th Division)

Placenames

Demesne 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.