Attimonmore South

109 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Attimonmore South, from 47 m² to 190,743 m² (19.07 ha, 47.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Attimonmore South 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.

• 29 Sept 2025Refused

  for a period of 10 years for a development consisting of the provision of the following: i. 8 no. wind turbines with an overall turbine total tip height range of 178m - 185m, a rotor diameter range of 149m - 163m, and turbine hub height range of 101m - 104m, and associated foundations and hard standing areas; ii. A permanent 38kV substation compound (including a control building (157.6 sqm) with welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and apparatus, security fencing, underground cabling, storage containers, wastewater holding tank, site drainage and all ancillary works); iii. Permanent underground electrical (38kV) and communications cabling to the existing Cashla Substation in the townland of Barrettspark (including joint bays, communication and earth sheath link chambers and all ancillary works along the route). This cabling route is primarily located within the public road corridor which includes protected structures (RPS No. 3747, RPS No. 146). iv. Underground electrical (20/33kV) and communications cabling connecting the wind turbines and meteorological mast to the proposed on-site substation; v. 2 no. temporary construction compounds (including site offices and welfare facilities (with a combined floor area of 202.5 sqm); vi. A meteorological mast with a height of 30 meters, security fencing and associated foundation and hard-standing area; vii. Upgrade of existing site tracks/ roads and provision of new site access roads, junctions and hardstand areas, including a new site entrance off the L3115; viii. Peat and Spoil Management Areas; ix. Tree felling and vegetation removal; x. Biodiversity enhancement measures (including peatland habitat enhancement, Marsh Fritillary habitat enhancement and management, establishment of hedgerows and native woodland planting); xi. Site drainage; xii. Operational stage site signage; and xiii. All ancillary works and apparatus. A thirty five-year operational life from the date of full commissioning of the wind turbines and subsequent decommissioning is being sought. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and accompany this application. An Opinion on Unconfirmed Details issued by Galway County Council (Opinion Ref. No. 25/MP/2) on 29th May 2025 accompanies this application. The details unconfirmed in this application are the turbine total tip height, rotor diameter and hub height. The range of parameters un

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561412

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  for (1) existing turf shed, (2) a general purpose agricultural shed & (3) two slatted cow wintering sheds, within the existing farmyard including all associated works and services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 563 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 25190

• 10 Oct 2024N/a

  for a general purpose agricultural shed including all associated works and services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 153.00 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 24297

• 5 Apr 2024Conditional

  for the re-roofing of existing detached single-storey railway station building house, which is a protected structure (NIAH Reg. No. 30408504), (RPS 145), the reinstating of the Northern chimney, the re-rendering of all other existing chimneys, the landscaping and safeguarding of derelict extension to the Southern gable and the addition of sash window displays to all windows in public view and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460378

• 4 May 2022Refused

  for proposed domestic dwelling, domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 157 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22576

• 15 Apr 2022N/a

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment plant and percolation area, along with all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works 275 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260355

• 24 Jul 2020Conditional

  for revised entrance and access road to private dwelling house permitted under Pl. Ref. 15/ 857.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201014

• 24 Jul 2020Conditional

  for retention of industrial use in existing agricultural shed [b] extension and elevation alterations to same shed and [c] installation of on-site storm and waste water treatment / percolation, parking and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 395 msq, Gross floor space of works to be retained; 260sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 201015

• 10 Feb 2020Conditional

  (1) to construct a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwellinghouse (2) new sewage treatment system and (3) all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 101.20 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20149

• 10 May 2019Conditional

  for the change of house extension design, from that previously granted under Planning Reference number 13/325. Gross floor space of proposed works: 42 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19709

• 12 Mar 2019N/a

  to (1) construct a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwellinghouse and (2) all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 101.2 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19341

• 13 Jun 2018Unconditional

  for extension to existing house, to convert existing garage to living accommodation and connect existing garage to new extension. Full planning permission for porch at front of house and new garage (gross floor space extension 55.3sqm; garage 32.5sqm). Previous Planning No.13/325.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 18794

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 Attimonmore South.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Attimonmore South.

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, installed c.1870, with banded cylindrical shaft, fluted domed cap with pointed finial, fluted spout with plain bucket grip and curved cow's tail pumping handle. Located at roadside within enclosure with rendered walls.

• Bridge, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1851, carrying road over Dublin to Galway railway line. Rock-faced rusticated walls, parapet walls and piers, and cut-stone string courses. Elliptical arch with ashlar soffit, cut limestone impost course and rock-faced rusticated voussoirs.

• Attymon Railway Station, railway station, 1885–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey railway station, built c.1890, with veranda to trackside elevation, and remains of single-bay block to south gable. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with rendered red brick chimneystacks. Red brick walls. Square-headed openings, now boarded up, with black brick block-and-start surrounds, and tooled limestone sills to window openings. Veranda formed by overhanging eaves of roof, supported by cast-iron posts on stone plinths. Detached two-bay single-storey goods shed to west of station and north of railway line, and having pitched slate roof, red brick walls with wrought-iron wall ties, segmental-arch openings with red brick voussoirs and remains of multiple-pane metal-framed window. Remains of rendered platform to Dunsandle spur to west.

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).

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

Name

Attimonmore South · Áth Tíomáin Mór Theas

Area

2,565,968 m² (256.6 ha, 634.06 acres)

Civil parish

Killimordaly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Cloonkeen, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Attimonbeg, Attimonmore North, Ballynanulty, Cappanasruhaun, Cloonkeenmore North, Cloonkeenmore South, Killimor, Laragh, Lisduff

Placenames

Attimonmore South on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.