Cloonmaghaura
Townland in the civil parish of Templetogher, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Galway; in Irish Cluain Moghára
- Area
- 276.5 ha
- 683 acres
- Land parcels
- 214
- registered freehold, median 8,129 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
214 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonmaghaura, from 136 m² to 93,131 m² (9.31 ha, 23.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 57 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonmaghaura 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Mar 2024Conditional
to construct a new agricultural storage shed and concrete apron and all ancillary site works. This application is accompanied with a site specific flood risk assessment report, an appropriate assessment screening report and a Nature Impact Statement report (NIS). Gross floor space of proposed works: 141.00 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 2460235
25 Jul 2017Conditional
to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, waste water treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works 206.30sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171102
25 Jul 2017Conditional
to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, waste water treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works 247.93sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171103
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Williamstown Turloughs SAC 002296
Recorded monuments
- GA006-049 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 42m, E-W 36m) defined by a bank at NNE and S. A degraded scarp, overlain by a field wall from W to N, forms the enclosing element elsewhere. 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 Cloonmaghaura.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonmaghaura.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonmaghaura with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonmaghaura · Cluain Moghára
- Area
- 2,765,355 m² (276.54 ha, 683.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templetogher, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballymoe
- Electoral division
- Templetogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templetogher electoral division: 419 people in 150 households; 91% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinphuill, Beagh, Boyounagh Beg, Castle, Cloonkeen, Coothagh, Gortduff, Kildaree, Kilmore, Meelick, Polleagh South, Pollremon
- Placenames
- Cloonmaghaura 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.