Ben More

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ben More, from 111 m² to 200,292 m² (20.03 ha, 49.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Ben More 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.

• 14 Aug 2026N/a

  for a north west facing 2 storey extension, a south east facing single storey extension to existing 2 storey dwelling and detached domestic garage including storage area with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661393

• 3 Jul 2026Conditional

  for change of dwelling and domestic garage plans under previously granted pl. ref. no. 21/2458 including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661134

• 19 Jan 2022Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with wastewater treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 257.15 sqm (house) & 53.94 sqm (garage/fuel shed)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2234

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  for proposed domestic dwelling, domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 365 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212458

• 24 Jun 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works; House 166sqm, Garage 45sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211123

• 12 Feb 2021Refused

  for proposed domestic garage / private vintage vehicle storage with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 169.83 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21159

• 26 Nov 2020Refused

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. 166 sqm House, 45 sqm Garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201794

• 11 Jun 2019Conditional

  for the extension and refurbishment works to an existing dwelling house, internal alterations and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 210 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 69 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 17 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19879

• 22 Nov 2018Conditional

  to construct a new fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store with wastewater treatment system percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (Dwelling house) 236.50 sqm, (Garage/Fuel Store) 59.50 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181678

• 1 Feb 2017Conditional

  to construct double storey dwelling house with a waste water treatment plant and polishing filter and all associated site works (Gross floor space of proposed works: 201.0sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1794

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 Ben More.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-017 Designed landscape - folly
  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.

• GA097-018003 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

• GA097-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in marshy grassland. Subcircular rath (30m N-S; 27m E-W), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The monument has been disturbed by quarrying. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

• GA097-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 31m) defined by a bank from WNW through N to ENE; elsewhere a scarp, surmounted by a field wall, forms the enclosing element. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

• GA097-168 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.

• GA097-168001 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.

• GA097-168002 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.

• GA097-170 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

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

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 20 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 Ben More.

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

Name

Ben More · An Bhinn Mhór

Area

2,575,556 m² (257.56 ha, 636.43 acres)

Civil parish

Grange, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grange electoral division: 805 people in 256 households; 93% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymurry, Bellayarha North, Ben Beg, Brackloonbeg, Carra, Carrowmore

Placenames

Ben More 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.