Biggera More

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Biggera More, from 558 m² to 185,517 m² (18.55 ha, 45.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Biggera 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.

• 13 Feb 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works dwelling 245sqm, Garage 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19189

• 30 Apr 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a new slatted shed with calf creep area, manure pit and associated ancillary concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works 287.5 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18539

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 Biggera More.

Recorded monuments

• GA056-022 Enclosure
  Description

  In rock outcrop. Named 'Caher' on OS Fair Plan and marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA056-023 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a W-facing slope. Oval cashel (N-S 30.6m, E-W 24.7m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall with inner and outer wall-facing visible sporadically. Within NW sector of interior is a circular grassed-over stone structure (D 2.5m), possibly a house. 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Biggera 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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Name

Biggera More · Bigire Mór

Area

1,243,575 m² (124.36 ha, 307.29 acres)

Civil parish

Annaghdown, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killower electoral division: 925 people in 302 households; 93% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Biggera Beg, Carheens, Carrownaherick West, Cluidrevagh, Kilcurriv Eighter, Laurclavagh

Placenames

Biggera 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.