Grange

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange, from 557 m² to 423,607 m² (42.36 ha, 104.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Grange 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.

• 14 Aug 2025Conditional

  to renovate the existing derelict dwelling house which will include an extension to the rear of the dwelling house, install a first floor habitual area and alterations to the front façade of the dwelling house. Full planning permission also sought to remove the existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. Full planning permission sought to retain the existing storage sheds and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561114

• 30 Jul 2025N/a

  for a single storey extension, renovations, elevational alterations and associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561051

• 14 Feb 2020Conditional

  to construct a 27m high multi-user lattice telecommunications structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4m high palisade fence compound, including new access track together with associated ground equipment and associated site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20194

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

Recorded monuments

• GA017-105 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On N-facing slope of a hill ingrassland overlooking poorly drained land to N. Well-preserved subcircular ringfort (E-W 54m, N-S 50.5m) defined by two stone-lined banks and an intervening fosse. Well-defined entrance at E. Quarrying hasencroached upon the monument from E through S to SW, and an irregular scarp forms the enclosing element in this sector. A probable souterrain (GA017-105001-) is associated. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA017-105001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA017-105----). Of this 'rath', Neary (1914, 113, no. 138) remarks that 'the garth, which follows the hill slope, was tilled, and contains a souterrain'. All that is visible is a shallow linear hollow (L 7m, Wth 3m), running E-W, in the centre of the interior. It is flanked by a mound of earth along N side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA017-106 Burial
  Description

  In pastureland, within a farmyard close to a modern house. According to local information, there was a famine burial ground within the farmyard; a soup kitchen and orphanage were located close by. No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Grange · An Ghráinseach

Area

709,902 m² (70.99 ha, 175.42 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Dunmore South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunmore South electoral division: 891 people in 351 households; 70% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymoney North, Ballymoney South, Clooneen, Dunmore, Dunmore Demesne, Knockatee East

Placenames

Grange 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.