# Aughnanure, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish Achadh na nIúr. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 985,974 m² (98.6 ha, 243.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,459 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcummin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilcummin.md - Barony: Moycullen - Electoral division: Oughterard, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20826 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60167 - Centre: latitude 53.414199, longitude -9.271941 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughnanure, from 33 m² to 169,682 m² (16.97 ha, 41.93 acres); 32 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2083659: 169,682 m² (16.97 ha, 41.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083659.md - Parcel 2083638: 93,482 m² (9.35 ha, 23.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083638.md - Parcel 2083646: 89,875 m² (8.99 ha, 22.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083646.md - Parcel 2035385: 87,358 m² (8.74 ha, 21.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035385.md - Parcel 2083650: 84,895 m² (8.49 ha, 20.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083650.md - Parcel 2035389: 80,107 m² (8.01 ha, 19.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035389.md - Parcel 2035398: 71,005 m² (7.1 ha, 17.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035398.md - Parcel 2035396: 65,460 m² (6.55 ha, 16.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035396.md - Parcel 2083657: 54,238 m² (5.42 ha, 13.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083657.md - Parcel 2083648: 45,115 m² (4.51 ha, 11.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083648.md - Parcel 2083647: 32,704 m² (3.27 ha, 8.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083647.md - Parcel 2083656: 6,217 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083656.md - Parcel 2035397: 4,527 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035397.md - Parcel 2035391: 4,012 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035391.md - Parcel 2083651: 3,866 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083651.md - Parcel 2083658: 3,717 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083658.md - Parcel 2035390: 3,466 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035390.md - Parcel 2083653: 3,376 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083653.md - Parcel 2035387: 3,185 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035387.md - Parcel 2035388: 2,555 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035388.md - Parcel 2083645: 2,548 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083645.md - Parcel 3669902: 2,473 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3669902.md - Parcel 2083643: 2,446 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083643.md - Parcel 2083642: 2,418 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083642.md - Parcel 4630944: 2,306 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4630944.md - Parcel 4649775: 2,290 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4649775.md - Parcel 2083652: 2,253 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083652.md - Parcel 2083649: 2,166 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083649.md - Parcel 2083644: 2,163 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083644.md - Parcel 4630946: 2,131 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4630946.md - Parcel 2035394: 2,103 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035394.md - Parcel 2083640: 2,066 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083640.md - Parcel 2035395: 2,065 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035395.md - Parcel 2083654: 2,024 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083654.md - Parcel 2035386: 1,976 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035386.md - Parcel 2083641: 1,973 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083641.md - Parcel 4456332: 1,885 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456332.md - Parcel 2083639: 1,817 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083639.md - Parcel 2083655: 951 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083655.md - Parcel 2035393: 461 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035393.md - Parcel 4456331: 171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456331.md - Parcel 5039983: 60 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5039983.md - Parcel 5039989: 54 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5039989.md - Parcel 2035392: 33 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035392.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Aughnanure in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 29 May 2026, Galway County Council 2660869: Refused. Retention, 1 home. of a dwelling house, garage and for replacement of original septic tank with a wastewater treatment plant on revised site boundaries and permission is being sought to complete the upgrade of the private wastewater system with all associated works and ancillary services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660869/0 - 2 Mar 2026, Galway County Council 2660320: Refused. Retention, 1 home. for alterations to dwelling house and for replacement of original septic tank with a wastewater treatment plant and permission is being sought to complete the upgrade of the private wastewater system with all associated works and ancillary services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660320/0 - 2 Dec 2021, Galway County Council 212280: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and garage, together with all associated site works. This planning application will be accompanied by a Nature Impact Statement. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 312 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/212280/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC, site code 000297, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000297 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA054-002: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA054-002----. On a natural rock outcrop on S bank of Drimneen River close to its outflow into Lough Corrib. This Nat. Mon. consists of a 16th-17th-C tower house enclosed by two bawns: a large, irregular outer bawn (46m by 49m), lying to S and E of the tower house, is defended by five turrets. The remains of a rectangular banqueting hall (L 24m, Wth >7m) stand in its SW corner. The earlier, wedge-shaped inner bawn (36m by 22m max.) sits on the rock outcrop and was defended by a drawbridge, gun loops and a circular turret at SE corner, the latter later reused as a dovecote. Centrally placed in the inner bawn is the conserved, rectangular tower house (L 12.2m, Wth 8.7m) of seven storeys, built in two phases. The doorway, in E wall, gives access to a lobby with murder-hole above, and spiral stairs in SE corner. The ground and upper floors each comprise a main chamber with a subsidiary one to E. Stone vaults exist between ground/1st and 3rd/4th floors. There is a fireplace on 4th floor in S wall and latrines on 1st and 4th floors: a trapdoor in the latter gives access to a concealed chamber below it in the thickness of the arch. There are bartizans at SE and NE corners on 2nd floor and a centrally placed machicolation on each wall at parapet level. Much of the latter, and the 7th-storey gabled garret, are reconstructions. There are single-light ogee-headed windows and later twin-light flat-headed windows, with hood-mouldings, in tower: one of the two surviving windows in the banqueting hall has finely decorated soffits (Leask 1951, 106). (OPW 1980; Fleming 1909, 180-2; Killanin 1947, 124, 129) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 187/1950). The monument was taken into Guardianship under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 470. - GA054-002001: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA054-002001-. 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. - GA054-003: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA054-003----. In an area of rough, scrub-covered terrain. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map 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. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aughnanure. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Aughnanure, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_345, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_345.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/aughnanure.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/aughnanure.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/aughnanure.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aughnanure with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardnasillagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardnasillagh.md - Bealnalappa: https://everytownland.com/galway/bealnalappa.md - Knockkillaree: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockkillaree.md - Laghtgannon: https://everytownland.com/galway/laghtgannon.md - Moyvoon East: https://everytownland.com/galway/moyvoon-east.md - Porridgetown West: https://everytownland.com/galway/porridgetown-west.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/aughnanure - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/aughnanure