Glencoaghan

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glencoaghan, from 367 m² to 11,579,355 m² (1,157.94 ha, 2,861.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Glencoaghan 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.

• 28 Oct 2025Refused

  for the existing single storey dwelling name above The Burrow to add a single storey extension of a bedroom and shower room

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25294

• 19 Sept 2025N/a

  to construct an extension and separate garage to an existing house, plus all associated works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561359

• 28 Nov 2024Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, install a waste water treatment unit and polishing filter, and all ancillary site works and services. The application is accompanied by a NIS. Gross floor space of proposed works: 211.28 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461620

• 28 Mar 2024Conditional

  to construct a new agricultural shed as well as all ancillary site works and site services. This planning application is accompanied by a NIS. Gross floor space of proposed works: 354.09 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460348

• 11 Jul 2017Conditional

  to (1) demolish existing stone structure on site, previously granted under Pl Ref NO. 08/2093 and 13/1223, (2) Permission to retain and complete existing blockwork structure on site on revised house plans (3) relocate proposed site entrance (4) Permission to construct a new domestic garage as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 106.10sqm, demolition 74sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171026

• 19 Apr 2017N/a

  for change of house design, previously granted under Planning Reference Number 13/1223, relocate proposed site entrance and to construct a domestic garage as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 106.10sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17522

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: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Area of Conservation: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex SAC 002031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex 002031

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glencoaghan.

Architectural heritage

• Canal Bridge, bridge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone bridge over An Abhainn Mhór [Owenmore or Ballynahinch River], built c.1830. Rusticated voussoirs to segmental arch, rusticated coursed walls and gunnelled soffit. Short stepped-plan ashlar buttresses flanking arch and having quarter-domes to corners. String course to base of parapets with coursed tooled copings and with recent concrete repairwork to north-west end of south-west elevation and to middle of opposite elevation. Rubble copings to flanking approach walls.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Glencoaghan.

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.

No address of the register names Glencoaghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Glencoaghan · Gleann Chóchan

Area

12,679,470 m² (1,267.95 ha, 3,133.17 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Bencorr, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bencorr electoral division: 219 people in 55 households; 72% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athry, Ballinafad, Cloonnacartan, Derryclare, Derrynavglaun, Garroman, Gleninagh, Tievebreen

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Glencoaghan 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.