Annagh Hill

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Annagh Hill, from 77 m² to 170,871 m² (17.09 ha, 42.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Annagh Hill 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.

• 1 Oct 2025Conditional

  for change of house plans from those previously granted under planning permission reference number 24/61166 and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561421

• 4 Sept 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed work: 205.70 sqm (house) & 60.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461166

• 7 Jun 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house (125 m2), domestic garage/fuel storage shed (60 m2), waste water treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460685

• 20 May 2024N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel storage shed, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 125.39 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460580

• 27 Jul 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, sewage treatment system & garage together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23306

• 30 Dec 2020Conditional

  for development as described as follows: 1) Retention of the provision of a detached Storage Shed. 2) Permission for the construction of a detached garage structure. Gross floor space of proposed works: Garage Structure 105.0 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Storage Shed 29 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202059

• 4 Feb 2020Conditional

  for an extension and alterations to an existing national school and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 119.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20122

• 12 May 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of; a 30m multi-user free standing structure carrying telecommunications equipment together with associated exchange cabinets and fencing with access track at Annagh Hill, Ballyglunin, Tuam, Co. Galway. The development will carry telecommunications apparatus that will form part of Vodafone Ireland's GSM, 3G and 4G network.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17681

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 Annagh Hill.

Recorded monuments

• GA057-010001 Enclosure
  Description

  On top of a low rise in pastureland. A subrectangular raised area (N-S 18.2m, E-W 15m) defined by a scarp, best preserved along N and E sides. Traces of a possible gap are visible in W side. There is a deep round-bottomed fosse on N side. A settlement cluster (GA057-010002-) is associated. 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

• GA057-010002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Immediately SW of an enclosure (GA057-010001-). A number of house foundations, isolated banks and at least one subcircular feature are visible: (a) a rectangular area (NE-SW; L 7.5m, Wth 4.7m) defined by a degraded grassy bank; (b) a short distance to SW of it, a rectangular area (N-S; L 9.5m, Wth 8.2m) defined by bank; (c) a short distance to W of the enclosure, a U-shaped feature (D 1.9m) defined by a substantial grassy bank (Wth 4m). According to local tradition, 'the earliest village' in Annagh Hill was located here. 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

• GA057-010003 House - indeterminate date
  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.

• GA057-010004 Earthwork
  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.

• GA057-011 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused quarry pit overgrown with trees. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 July 2014

• GA057-013 Monumental structure
  Description

  On top of a low hill, 603 SE of the Galway-Mount Bellew road. What survives is a low oval mound of earth and stone (N-S 6.3m, E-W 5.3m, H 0.85m). On its summit lies on inscribed slab, dated 1665, commemorating William Lynch and his son Thomas. There is a local tradition that this is the burial place of a priest. According to one version, he was killed near a large natural boulder, known locally as a mass rock, which lies 90m to NNE. 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

• GA057-014 Mass-rock
  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.

• GA058-005 Enclosure
  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

• Annagh Boys' National School, school, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former schoolhouse, dated 1877, now private dwelling. T-shaped plan with gable-fronted central entrance bay to front, and with single-storey late twentieth-century extension to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with red brick chimneystack to south, decorative timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed random rubble limestone walls with projecting limestone plinth. Triangular-arch window openings with cut-stone voussoirs and tooled limestone sills. Square-headed entrance door with relieving triangular arch and inscribed stone plaques above. Replacement uPVC windows and doors throughout. Set back from road with detached garage to east, garden to front behind rendered and painted boundary wall.

• Annagh Girls' National School, school, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey T-plan former schoolhouse, built c.1880, now private dwelling. Gable-fronted central entrance bay to front, and two-storey mid-twentieth-century extension to rear with recent single-storey extension to west. Pitched natural slate roof with red brick chimneystack, replacement aluminium rainwater goods and replacement uPVC soffit and fascia to gables. Coursed random rubble limestone walls with projecting limestone plinth. Triangular-headed window openings with cut limestone voussoirs and tooled limestone sills, having metal lattice multiple-pane windows to front elevation, and replacement uPVC windows elsewhere. Triangular-headed entrance with replacement uPVC door with fanlight, and having inscribed limestone plaque above. Set back from road with garden to front behind rendered and painted boundary wall.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_755 (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 Annagh Hill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Annagh Hill · Cnoc an Eanaigh

Area

1,145,111 m² (114.51 ha, 282.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoylan, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Kilmoylan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmoylan electoral division: 1,171 people in 372 households; 92% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Ballybrone, Ballyglooneen, Barnaboy, Bullaun, Garrauncreen, Parkgarve

Placenames

Annagh Hill 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.