Clogher

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clogher, from 219 m² to 77,976 m² (7.8 ha, 19.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Clogher 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.

• 18 Sept 2025Refused

  for the construction of an earth-sheltered dwelling house, sewage treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561344

• 28 Aug 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwellinghouse, sewage treatment unit & percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23345

• 28 Jul 2023Refused

  for the construction of an earth-sheltered dwellinghouse, sewage treatment system & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360877

• 22 Sept 2022N/a

  to construct a single story private dwelling house, domestic garage, with on site sewerage treatment system and all other services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 196 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221066

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 Clogher.

Recorded monuments

• GA027-023 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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 Clogher.

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 Clogher, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clogher.

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.

No address of the register names Clogher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Clogher · An Clochar

Area

682,315 m² (68.23 ha, 168.6 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Cloonbur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,267 people lived in 389 households in the Cloonbur electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashford or Cappacorcoge, Cappacorcoge, Cloonnamarve, Cregdotia, Creggaree, Croaghrim, Deerpark, Toberbiroge

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Clogher 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.