Carnmore

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carnmore, from 1,269 m² to 81,809 m² (8.18 ha, 20.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carnmore 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.

• 4 Mar 2025Conditional

  for continued use of the existing quarry to the permitted depth of minus 5 mOD, including drill-ing, blasting, crushing, processing, stockpiling of materials, associated roads and ancillary services (granted under Planning Ref. File No.: 09/1958 and ABP Ref.: PL07.235821); Continued use of open storage areas; Continued use of existing permitted concrete manufacturing facility (granted under Planning Ref. File No. 09230 and 19/517: ABP-304769-19); Continued use of the existing office (granted under Planning Ref. File No.: 09/1958 and ABP Ref.: PL07.235821); Continued use of the existing maintenance shed (granted under Planning Ref. File No. 09610); Continued use of the existing water management system (including settlement lagoons), weighbridge and wheelwash; Lateral extension of the existing permitted quarry area over a previously permitted extraction area (granted under Planning Ref. File No. 06/4125) of c.4.6 ha. area to a final floor level of minus 5 mOD. The total quarry extraction area will be c. 13 Ha.; Restoration of the application area to natural habitat after uses following completion of ex-traction. The proposed development is within an overall application area of c. 27.5 hectares and is for a total period of 22 years (comprising an operational period of 20 years followed by 2 years for restoration). This application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560220

• 20 May 2021Unconditional

  to continue quarrying with associated roads and ancillary services and to operate a concrete batching plant and a bitumen batching plant within the quarry. The 13 hectare extraction area and the 27.5 hectare site boundary remains identical to that outlined in the existing quarry planning permission for Coshla Quarries Ltd (P06/4125). An Environment Impact Statement (EIS) will be submitted with the application

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 21859

• 21 Apr 2020Conditional

  for a twenty year planning permission for the continued operation of the existing quarry and all associated uses and activities, as well as for an extension to the existing quarry extraction area and all associated site works including landscaping arrangements. The proposed quarry extraction area extension is on lands to the north, south and east of the existing quarry and the additional extraction area amounts to approximately 6.7 hectares. The application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report and a Natura Impact Statement.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20499

• 26 Feb 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: dwelling - 259sqm, garage - 50sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19253

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 Carnmore.

Recorded monuments

• GA083-008 Enclosure
  Description

  On a hillock in grassland. Marked only on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m); a field boundary ran through it from SSE to SSW. No visible surface trace survives. The M6 motorway runs E-W c. 30m to its N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 22 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Carnmore, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_715 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

• Carnmore, Oranmore13 sales

Name

Carnmore · An Carn Mór

Area

732,809 m² (73.28 ha, 181.08 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Aughrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,317 people lived in 436 households in the Aughrim electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrettspark, Carnmore East, Carnmore West, Cashla, Lisheenavalla, Lisheenkyle West, Palmerstown

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Carnmore 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.