Glenicmurrin

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenicmurrin, from 11 m² to 2,702,197 m² (270.22 ha, 667.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Glenicmurrin 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.

• 9 Oct 2025Conditional

  for existing dwelling house as constructed, on revised site boundaries as well as all ancillary site works and services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561472

• 5 Jun 2020Conditional

  chun teach cónaithe agus córas séarachais a thógáil. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe: 229 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20697

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 Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA 004181
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenicmurrin.

Architectural heritage

• Fermoyle Lodge, hunting/fishing lodge, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan three-bay two-storey lodge, built c.1875, having advanced west end bay to front (west) elevation, two-storey canted bay to north elevation, three-bay two-storey addition to south elevation of house with additional single-storey extension and lean-to addition to south elevation and single-storey flat-roofed addition and lean-to additions to east elevation. Hipped slate roofs to house and two-storey additions, pitched slate roof to single-storey addition, felt roof to flat-roofed addition, slate to lean-to additions. Rendered chimneystacks and replacement aluminium rainwater goods. Coursed and snecked rusticated granite block walls to all elevations of house and two-storey addition, rendered walls to flat-roofed addition and lean-to additions to west addition, rusticated stone-block walls to single storey and lean-to additions to south elevation, red-brick quoin bands to original house and two-storey addition, stone block and rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills to original house and concrete sills to additions, red-brick voussoirs, block-and-start surrounds and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows throughout original house and two-storey addition, replacement timber casement windows to additions. Square-headed door openings with red-brick voussoirs, block-and-start surrounds, tooled limestone step and timber panelled door with overlight. Timber louvered door to south elevation, timber glazed door with overlight to north and west elevations. Garden to west with stone terrace to west side of driveway.

• Fermoyle Lodge, worker's house, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former gamekeeper's house, built c.1890, now used as a workshop. Pitched painted corrugated-iron roof with galvanised eaves and rendered chimneystack. Painted corrugated-iron walls with timber battens to east elevation and concrete plinth with drainage channels. Square-headed window openings having timber sills, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to front (north) elevation and replacement timber casement windows to front and rear elevations. Square-headed entrances comprising of concrete step, with battened timber doors to front and rear elevation.

• Scoil Náisiúnta Nioclas Naomtha [Saint Nicholas's National School], school, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former school with attic-storey, built c.1890, having recent additional single-storey with dormer attic to rear elevation having canted bay to rear, and porch to north-east elevation, now in use as house. Pitched slate roofs with projecting decorative rafters to eaves and rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls to original block and rendered walls to addition. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills and replacement timber casement windows to front (south-east) and rear elevations, concrete sills, timber and uPVC casement windows to additional block. Oculus window opening to south-west elevation. Square-headed door openings having battened timber door to front with tooled limestone name plaque over opening, glazed battened timber door to north-east elevation. Rubble stone boundary walls with wrought-iron gate and rubble stone piers having recent galvanised gates.

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 Glenicmurrin, 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 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 Glenicmurrin.

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

Name

Glenicmurrin · Gleann Mhac Muirinn

Area

10,066,649 m² (1,006.66 ha, 2,487.52 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Selerna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,503 people lived in 548 households in the Selerna electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bovroughaun, Derrykyle, Formweel, Knockadoagh, Lettermuckoo, Muckanaghkillew, Shannapheasteen

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Glenicmurrin 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.