# Carnmore, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monivea, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish An Carn Mór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 732,809 m² (73.28 ha, 181.08 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,353 m² (0.94 ha, 2.31 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Monivea, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/monivea.md - Barony: Clare - Electoral division: Aughrim, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18454 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60897 - Centre: latitude 53.308422, longitude -8.86921 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carnmore, from 1,269 m² to 81,809 m² (8.18 ha, 20.22 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4457323: 81,809 m² (8.18 ha, 20.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457323.md - Parcel 2007303: 72,310 m² (7.23 ha, 17.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007303.md - Parcel 1944591: 58,608 m² (5.86 ha, 14.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944591.md - Parcel 2007300: 46,850 m² (4.69 ha, 11.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007300.md - Parcel 1944595: 44,258 m² (4.43 ha, 10.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944595.md - Parcel 1944590: 41,486 m² (4.15 ha, 10.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944590.md - Parcel 1944492: 33,735 m² (3.37 ha, 8.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944492.md - Parcel 2007307: 33,029 m² (3.3 ha, 8.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007307.md - Parcel 1944592: 32,784 m² (3.28 ha, 8.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944592.md - Parcel 2007305: 32,013 m² (3.2 ha, 7.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007305.md - Parcel 1944491: 31,770 m² (3.18 ha, 7.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944491.md - Parcel 2007301: 29,559 m² (2.96 ha, 7.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007301.md - Parcel 2007308: 28,853 m² (2.89 ha, 7.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007308.md - Parcel 1944593: 26,284 m² (2.63 ha, 6.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944593.md - Parcel 2007304: 25,754 m² (2.58 ha, 6.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007304.md - Parcel 2007306: 23,064 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007306.md - Parcel 1944594: 18,195 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944594.md - Parcel 1944490: 9,711 m² (0.97 ha, 2.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944490.md - Parcel 4644131: 8,995 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4644131.md - Parcel 4641092: 6,590 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4641092.md - Parcel 5330774: 6,435 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5330774.md - Parcel 4618903: 5,233 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4618903.md - Parcel 1944596: 3,909 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944596.md - Parcel 2007309: 3,590 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007309.md - Parcel 4457634: 3,469 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457634.md - Parcel 4769832: 3,466 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4769832.md - Parcel 2007310: 3,359 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007310.md - Parcel 4769845: 3,069 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4769845.md - Parcel 1944597: 2,219 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944597.md - Parcel 2439514: 2,064 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2439514.md - Parcel 2439516: 1,964 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2439516.md - Parcel 2112512: 1,904 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112512.md - Parcel 2007302: 1,845 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007302.md - Parcel 4675933: 1,671 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4675933.md - Parcel 2007311: 1,529 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007311.md - Parcel 1944489: 1,269 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944489.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 4 Mar 2025, Galway County Council 2560220: Conditional. Permission. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560220/0 - 20 May 2021, Galway County Council 21859: Unconditional. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21859/0 - 21 Apr 2020, Galway County Council 20499: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20499/0 - 26 Feb 2019, Galway County Council 19253: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19253/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carnmore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA083-008: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA083-008----. 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 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 Carnmore. ## 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 Carnmore, 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 low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_715, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_715.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/carnmore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/carnmore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/carnmore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Carnmore, Oranmore: 13 sales, https://everytownland.com/galway/carnmore-oranmore.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Barrettspark: https://everytownland.com/galway/barrettspark.md - Carnmore East: https://everytownland.com/galway/carnmore-east.md - Carnmore West: https://everytownland.com/galway/carnmore-west.md - Cashla: https://everytownland.com/galway/cashla-61079.md - Lisheenavalla: https://everytownland.com/galway/lisheenavalla.md - Lisheenkyle West: https://everytownland.com/galway/lisheenkyle-west.md - Palmerstown: https://everytownland.com/galway/palmerstown.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/carnmore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/carnmore