Clooshgereen

103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooshgereen, from 165 m² to 1,677,261 m² (167.73 ha, 414.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Clooshgereen 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.

• 24 Sept 2026N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 26246

• 26 Aug 2026N/a

  for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661453

• 12 Sept 2024Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and garage, together with all associated site works. The application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Gross floor space of proposed works: 193.00 sqm (H), 60.00 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24264

• 28 Jun 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 168.6 sqm (house) & 47.5 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460794

• 14 Jul 2022Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and garage, together with all associated site works. This application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Gross floor space of proposed works: 218 sqm (H) & 60 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22875

• 6 Jul 2022Conditional

  for dwelling house and garage/shed as constructed on revised site boundaries with all associated works and ancillary services.Gross floor space of work to be retained 245.60sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260688

• 26 Aug 2021Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and garage, together with all associated site works. This application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Gross floor space of proposed works: 257 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211546

• 29 Jul 2021Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211381

• 8 Jul 2021N/a

  for a dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200sqm (House) & 40sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211224

• 1 Feb 2021Refused

  for a dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 200 sqm, Garage: 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2186

• 7 Mar 2019Refused

  for dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank/effluent treatment system, percolation area/polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 221.72 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19322

• 11 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and sewage treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: (house) 201 sqm, (garage) 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181431

• 13 Aug 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works dwelling 165sqm, garage 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181143

• 28 Jun 2018Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and sewage treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works 201sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18908

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Oughterard District Bog NHA 002431

Recorded monuments

• GA054-022 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  This massive glacial erratic (H 2.7-4.4m; max. Wth 7.1m), named 'St. Patrick's Stone' on the 1898-9 resurvey of the OS 6-inch map, is located close to the NW summit of Corkernarusheeny Hill, in an area of rough terrain scattered with numerous boulders. A dark band running diagonally across its S face is believed to mark line of the chain used by St Patrick to tow the stone from Maam to its present location. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 February 2023

• GA054-023001 Mine - lead
  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.

• GA054-071 Cairn - unclassified
  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 Clooshgereen.

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 Clooshgereen, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Clooshgereen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Clooshgereen · Cluais Chéirín

Area

3,675,363 m² (367.54 ha, 908.2 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Billymore or Carrowntober, Bunnagippaun, Cregg, Luggakeeraun, Maghera More, Rusheeny

Placenames

Clooshgereen 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.