Eighterard

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eighterard, from 23 m² to 74,465 m² (7.45 ha, 18.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

• N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 14 Nov 2023Conditional

  of extension and alterations to existing dwelling house and for garage/garden shed as constructed with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 29.90 sqm (garage) & 24.80 sqm (extension)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361357

• 27 Jan 2022Conditional

  to carry out alterations to dwelling. Alterations will include the demolition of existing porch, the reconstruction of a new porch with increased glazing and the inclusion of a new window to our east elevation. Gross floor space of proposed works: 4sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 4 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2276

• 1 Oct 2021Conditional

  for dwelling house as constructed on revised site boundaries with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 103.4 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211814

• 10 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct a Dwelling House, Sewage Treatment System and Domestic Garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 220 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201285

• 24 Jul 2019Conditional

  for the erection of a conservatory/lounge gable extension to an existing dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 51 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191139

• 9 May 2019Conditional

  for dwelling house, car port, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 223.3sqm, Port 34.4sqm, Shed 115.5sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19692

• 22 Jan 2019Conditional

  for dwelling house, car port, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works; Dwelling - 211.8 sqm; Car Port - 44.5 sqm; Shed - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1976

• 19 Jan 2018Conditional

  of dwelling house, garage/sheds and all associated services on revised site boundaries to that previously approved under Planning Ref 43452. Gross floor space of work to be retained 51.96 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1842

• 4 Aug 2017Conditional

  of alterations to dwelling house and for garage/shed as constructed with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor area existing 293.9m2 house, 87.7m2 garage, retention 11.4m2 house, 87.7m2 garage

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171188

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

• GA054-027 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular area (NNW-SSE 39m) defined by a scarp from E through S to W; no surface traces survive elsewhere. (Killanin 1947, 125) 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 Eighterard.

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 Eighterard, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_331 (ZIP).

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

Name

Eighterard · Íochtar Ard

Area

488,087 m² (48.81 ha, 120.61 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

Carrowmanagh, Fough East, Lemonfield, Ordnance Ground, Tonwee, Tullyvrick

Placenames

Eighterard 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.