Attiregan

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Attiregan, from 194 m² to 161,669 m² (16.17 ha, 39.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Attiregan 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.

• 16 Jun 2026Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660995

• 11 Oct 2023Conditional

  to construct a domestic garage at the rear of their dwellinghouse including all associated works & services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23410

• 12 Jan 2023Refused

  to construct a slatted shed with loose housing area to include handling facilities, concrete aprons and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Shed= 492.48sqm, Handling facilities= 79.20sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 234

• 7 Mar 2018Conditional

  and completion of fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store as previously granted under planning reference number 09/227. Gross floor area 261.4m2

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18255

• 1 Sept 2017Conditional

  for dwellinghouse and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 212sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171310

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Callow Lough 001239

Recorded monuments

• GA073-010 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating farmland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) as a circular enclosure (D c. 50m). All that survives are the poorly preserved remains of a circular area (D 33m) defined by a denuded bank. Traces of an external fosse are visible from E to SE. 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

• GA073-011 Mill - corn
  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.

• GA073-160 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.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Attiregan.

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 10 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

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

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 Attiregan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Attiregan · Áit Tí Riagáin

Area

1,896,774 m² (189.68 ha, 468.7 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacward, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Kilconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilconnell electoral division: 658 people in 225 households; 91% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Callow, Carrowreagh, Cloonatleva Lower, Gortyroyan East, Gortyroyan West, Lisdonnellroe

Placenames

Attiregan 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.