# Clogher, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cong, barony of Ross, Co. Galway; in Irish An Clochar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 682,315 m² (68.23 ha, 168.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,610 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cong, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/cong.md - Barony: Ross - Electoral division: Cloonbur, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20612 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61173 - Centre: latitude 53.53803, longitude -9.304298 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clogher, from 219 m² to 77,976 m² (7.8 ha, 19.27 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1950750: 77,976 m² (7.8 ha, 19.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950750.md - Parcel 2000732: 25,309 m² (2.53 ha, 6.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000732.md - Parcel 1950747: 24,538 m² (2.45 ha, 6.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950747.md - Parcel 1950752: 23,905 m² (2.39 ha, 5.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950752.md - Parcel 2000637: 21,462 m² (2.15 ha, 5.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000637.md - Parcel 2000733: 18,232 m² (1.82 ha, 4.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000733.md - Parcel 1950748: 17,043 m² (1.7 ha, 4.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950748.md - Parcel 4711665: 14,540 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4711665.md - Parcel 4993890: 11,713 m² (1.17 ha, 2.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4993890.md - Parcel 5653888: 7,917 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5653888.md - Parcel 5592225: 7,087 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5592225.md - Parcel 2000632: 6,710 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000632.md - Parcel 4660073: 4,395 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4660073.md - Parcel 2418058: 2,610 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2418058.md - Parcel 2000633: 2,399 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000633.md - Parcel 2000634: 2,365 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000634.md - Parcel 1950751: 2,114 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950751.md - Parcel 2418068: 2,080 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2418068.md - Parcel 2000636: 1,946 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000636.md - Parcel 1950749: 1,902 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950749.md - Parcel 4658117: 1,502 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4658117.md - Parcel 2000635: 1,385 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000635.md - Parcel 2000731: 1,366 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000731.md - Parcel 5394045: 1,361 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5394045.md - Parcel 4660128: 592 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4660128.md - Parcel 4686639: 362 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4686639.md - Parcel 5371178: 219 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5371178.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 18 Sept 2025, Galway County Council 2561344: Refused. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of an earth-sheltered dwelling house, sewage treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561344/0 - 28 Aug 2023, Galway County Council 23345: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a new dwellinghouse, sewage treatment unit & percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/23345/0 - 28 Jul 2023, Galway County Council 2360877: Refused. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of an earth-sheltered dwellinghouse, sewage treatment system & all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360877/0 - 22 Sept 2022, Galway County Council 221066: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/221066/0 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 Clogher. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA027-023: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA027-023----. 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. 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 Clogher. ## 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 Clogher, 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 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 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/clogher.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/clogher.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/clogher.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Clogher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ashford or Cappacorcoge: https://everytownland.com/galway/ashford-or-cappacorcoge.md - Cappacorcoge: https://everytownland.com/galway/cappacorcoge.md - Cloonnamarve: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonnamarve.md - Cregdotia: https://everytownland.com/galway/cregdotia.md - Creggaree: https://everytownland.com/galway/creggaree.md - Croaghrim: https://everytownland.com/galway/croaghrim.md - Deerpark: https://everytownland.com/galway/deerpark-61726.md - Toberbiroge: https://everytownland.com/galway/toberbiroge.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/clogher - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/clogher