Dooroy

123 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooroy, from 47 m² to 117,701 m² (11.77 ha, 29.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Dooroy 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.

• 29 Jun 2026N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661088

• 28 May 2026N/a

  to construct a dwelling house with domestic garage and wastewater treatment centre

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660850

• 24 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling house with garage and wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561381

• 5 Sept 2024Refused

  to construct a single storey dwelling house with garage and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed work: 147.30 sqm (house) & 38.40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461174

• 6 Sept 2023Conditional

  of existing house & existing garage/garden shed all on revised site boundaries, also permission to relocate existing vehicle entrance to a more central location along the road frontage of the property as outlined on original planning 99/3670 also replacing the existing percolation area with similar specification to that on original planning ref. 99/3670

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361055

• 6 Dec 2022Refused

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, sewage treatment unit and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 202sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221213

• 28 Jul 2022Refused

  of existing dwelling house and garage on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained 234.30sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2260771

• 25 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a storey and a half dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank and wastewater treatment plant, construct new road entrance and demolish existing shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 257 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 38 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212213

• 17 Apr 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of alterations to existing house with provision of new staircase structure to the rear of the house and the construction of a new two storey extension to the side of the house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 101.32 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20487

• 21 Nov 2017Conditional

  of unauthorized structure for use as a domestic store associated with adjoining dwelling house along with all associated services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 58sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171674

• 17 Nov 2017Conditional

  of a domestic garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained 43.7sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171658

• 30 May 2017N/a

  for retention of stables as constructed and full planning permission for the change of use of the stables from current agricultural use to domestic storage along with the construction of an extension to the front of the shed and the provision of new front wall and access doors to front elevation along with all associated services. Gross floor area proposed 88.5m2, retention 58m2 .

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17766

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA027-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On E slope of a hill overlooking Lough Corrib to S and Lough Mask to N. Subcircular rath (NNW-SSE 39m) in fair condition. Defined by two banks and an intervening fosse; the outer bank survives only from NNW to N. A gap at E may be original. A field bank radiates from the monument at SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dooroy.

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 Dooroy, 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 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 Dooroy.

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.

• Dooroy, Clonbur8 sales

Name

Dooroy · Dúráithe

Area

1,692,934 m² (169.29 ha, 418.33 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

Ardaun West, Carrowhekeen, Carrowkeel, Rusheen East, Rusheen West, Tumneenaun

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Dooroy 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.