Laragh More

198 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laragh More, from 46 m² to 150,434 m² (15.04 ha, 37.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 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 Laragh More 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.

• 8 Aug 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and a garage with treatment plant and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561085

• 23 Jan 2025Conditional

  for (i) change of house design to that granted under Pl. Ref. No. 30578 & all associated site services. (ii) Retention of 2 no. shed structures. (iii) retention of revised site layout and all on revised site boundaries

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560061

• 23 Aug 2024Conditional

  to build a storage shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 217.30 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461101

• 29 Aug 2023Conditional

  to upgrade the existing 220k overhead line between the existing Cashla 220kV Substation in the townland of Barrettspark, Co. Galway, & Tower 138 in the townland of Oughtagh, Co. Galway. The proposed development will consist of refurbishment works to the existing overhead Line (approximately 49 km long & comprising of 138no. steel angle masts). The refurbishment works to towers will consist of: installation of replacement parts on the towers including insulators, shield wire, vibration dampeners, arching horns & anti-climbing guards; associated site development works, including temporary work areas, foundation refurbishment /strengthening & recapping/clearing of shear blocks; clearance of shear block bases; & ancillary works; ancillary site preparation works, site clearance & levelling at the 6no. temporary construction compounds & associated temporary works to existing tracks & new temporary access routes to provide internal access routes to each tower with all associated works required to facilitate the development. No works will be undertaken to the overhead line (conductor). The proposed development will also consist of upgrades to the Cashla 220kV substation that will consist of: the decommissioning and removal of line bay equipment within the substation boundary; construction of a new adjacent offline like for like line bay & associated bay protection cabinets within the substation boundary; & new overhead lines connection between the end mast & the new line bay. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23355

• 29 May 2023Conditional

  to construct an extension to the side & make amendments to the porch, façade & sunroom to the existing house. The permission includes an upgrade proposal to the existing percolation area only

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360575

• 27 Jan 2023Conditional

  of the existing dwelling house on revised site boundaries from previous planning permissions reference numbers 55488 and 6756 and permission to retain the existing granny flat, fuel shed and adjoining rain water storage tank. 3:Full planning permission also sought to install a new wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works.Gross floor space of work to be retained 210.00sqm [SPLIT DECISION: REFUSE PERMISSION FOR RETENTION GRANNY FLAT.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360053

• 20 May 2022Conditional

  to use one of the existing classrooms as a pre-school for sessional care.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260515

• 1 Mar 2022N/a

  to construct a domestic garage and for retention of my house (original planning ref # 041743) relating to the following elements of the house. Examples are: roof style window layout, internal layout, and corner block detail. Gross floor space of proposed works: 40 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 193 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22270

• 23 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 235 sqm (house) & 60 sqm ( garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212179

• 15 Jun 2020Conditional

  to build a hay shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 162.0 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20731

• 4 Mar 2020Conditional

  for change of house type, previous planning reference number 18/1828; Gross floor space of proposed works; 134sqm House, 40sqm Garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20276

• 24 Jan 2020Conditional

  of the existing dwelling house, septic tank, percolation area, existing entrance/exit gates, all on revised site boundaries (previous planning permission reference number 98/2929) and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 313 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2076

• 18 Dec 2018Conditional

  for the following development: (a) Construction of a dormer dwelling (b) Construction of a domestic garage (c) Wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) New site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 178 sqm (Dwelling), 40 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181828

• 17 Jul 2018Conditional

  of dwellinghouse, septic tank & percolation area on a site with revised boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained 148.67 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181002

• 28 Feb 2018Conditional

  of a garage and store to rear of dwelling. Gross floor space of work to be retained 27.79sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18229

• 6 Jul 2017Refused

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 202sqm, garage 45sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171013

• 6 Jul 2017Refused

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 204sqm, Garage 42sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171014

• 11 May 2017Conditional

  to provide a building for sessional childcare on their grounds at Crumlin, Ballyglunin , Tuam. Retention permission is also being sought for a link corridor at the front of the existing school. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 27.6 sqm, gross floor space of works to be retained: 64 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17669

• 13 Apr 2017N/a

  for the disposal of inert materials on lands

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17477

• 10 Mar 2017Conditional

  to carry out alterations to the existing dwelling house, which include the following: 1. alterations to the exterior façade of the dwelling house. 2. Alterations to the internal layout of the dwelling house. 3. Re-roofing the existing dwelling house and converting the attic space to living quarters. 4. Full planning permission also sought to retain the existing domestic garage/fuel store, the existing storage sheds and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 69sqm & gross floor space of works to be retained: 59sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17331

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Laragh More.

Recorded monuments

• GA071-057 Burial ground
  Description

  In level grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as small rectangular field (L c. 55m, Wth c. 35m): or 3rd ed. (1931), the NW boundary is shown only by a broken line. What survives is an irregular area delimited by a field wall along NE side but unenclosed elsewhere. Numerous small set stones are visible indicating graves aligned NW-SE. Probably a CBG. 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 Laragh More.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Laragh More · An Láithreach Mór

Area

2,835,437 m² (283.54 ha, 700.65 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyknockmoy, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Deerpark, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Deerpark electoral division: 1,440 people in 449 households; 90% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvoher, Carrowreagh East, Carrowreagh West, Cloonnavaddoge, Crumlin, Garrauncreen, Laragh Beg, Mira, Parkgarve, Pollsillagh

Placenames

Laragh More 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.