Lurga

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lurga, from 32 m² to 71,821 m² (7.18 ha, 17.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Lurga 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.

• 2 Jan 2025Conditional

  to erect a 24m high telecommunications lattice structure together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment all enclosed by security fencing and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560005

• 15 Dec 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling. The application includes new road access and wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site services and landscaping. Gross floor space of proposed works: 249.80 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261248

• 22 Feb 2022Refused

  to construct a dwelling and garage, the application includes new road access and waste water treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site services and landscaping. Gross floor space of proposed works 335.8 sqm The application includes retention of temporary storage of fill deposits on the site consisting of gravel and topsoil.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260137

• 30 Nov 2021N/a

  to construct a dwelling and garage. The application includes new road access and waste water treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site services and landscaping. The site is a greenfield site with some fill deposits on the site consisting of gravel and topsoil. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 287 sqm, Garage 48.8 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212252

• 17 Sept 2021N/a

  to construct a dwelling and garage. The application includes new road access and waste water treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site services and landscaping. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 287 sqm, Garage: 48.8 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211713

• 13 May 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a surfaced multiuse games area and additional play area with play equipment.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21802

• 1 Aug 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a natural playing field with associated fencing, netting and goalposts on behalf of the Board of Management of Lurga National School

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191200

• 21 Feb 2019Conditional

  of (1) an attic conversion and elevation alterations to the existing dwelling house and (2) retention of extension to domestic garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: (House) - 78.7 sqm, (Garage) 28 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19237

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 Lurga.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lurga.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-span limestone bridge, built 1869, carrying Ennis-Athenry railway over road and stream. Comprising snecked rock-faced rusticated stone abutments to north and south, with concrete and steel girder span over road, and round arch over stream with rock-faced rusticated walls and voussoirs, with low parapets over stream. Rusticated voussoirs with tooled margins to arch. Rusticated stone copings to parapets and abutment 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 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 Lurga.

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

Name

Lurga · An Lorgain

Area

676,851 m² (67.69 ha, 167.25 acres)

Civil parish

Beagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Beagh electoral division: 789 people in 274 households; 92% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cregboy, Curtaun, Derry, Fiddaun

Placenames

Lurga 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.