# Lurga, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Beagh, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway; in Irish An Lorgain. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 676,851 m² (67.69 ha, 167.25 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,247 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Beagh, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/beagh.md - Barony: Kiltartan - Electoral division: Beagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 789 people lived in 274 households in the Beagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19231 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63219 - Centre: latitude 53.011704, longitude -8.864599 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lurga, from 32 m² to 71,821 m² (7.18 ha, 17.75 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2035287: 71,821 m² (7.18 ha, 17.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035287.md - Parcel 2083543: 66,794 m² (6.68 ha, 16.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083543.md - Parcel 2035285: 51,070 m² (5.11 ha, 12.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035285.md - Parcel 4463191: 38,033 m² (3.8 ha, 9.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4463191.md - Parcel 2083556: 23,358 m² (2.34 ha, 5.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083556.md - Parcel 2035288: 22,803 m² (2.28 ha, 5.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035288.md - Parcel 2035291: 21,929 m² (2.19 ha, 5.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035291.md - Parcel 2083548: 21,046 m² (2.1 ha, 5.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083548.md - Parcel 2083554: 20,858 m² (2.09 ha, 5.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083554.md - Parcel 2035284: 18,762 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035284.md - Parcel 2035293: 17,360 m² (1.74 ha, 4.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035293.md - Parcel 4635467: 17,278 m² (1.73 ha, 4.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635467.md - Parcel 2083553: 17,122 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083553.md - Parcel 2083549: 16,520 m² (1.65 ha, 4.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083549.md - Parcel 2083542: 15,674 m² (1.57 ha, 3.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083542.md - Parcel 2083544: 15,451 m² (1.55 ha, 3.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083544.md - Parcel 2083535: 15,084 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083535.md - Parcel 2035282: 14,226 m² (1.42 ha, 3.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035282.md - Parcel 5346096: 13,932 m² (1.39 ha, 3.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5346096.md - Parcel 2035286: 13,398 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035286.md - Parcel 2083545: 13,198 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083545.md - Parcel 2083541: 12,201 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083541.md - Parcel 2083552: 11,645 m² (1.16 ha, 2.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083552.md - Parcel 2035292: 10,298 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035292.md - Parcel 2083555: 9,695 m² (0.97 ha, 2.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083555.md - Parcel 2035295: 9,357 m² (0.94 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035295.md - Parcel 5037311: 5,866 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5037311.md - Parcel 5650474: 5,364 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5650474.md - Parcel 2035290: 4,089 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035290.md - Parcel 2083546: 3,858 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083546.md - Parcel 4681213: 3,845 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4681213.md - Parcel 2083550: 3,683 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083550.md - Parcel 4975962: 3,380 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4975962.md - Parcel 2035281: 3,323 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035281.md - Parcel 2083534: 3,171 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083534.md - Parcel 2035283: 3,064 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035283.md - Parcel 2035289: 2,918 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035289.md - Parcel 5080984: 2,702 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5080984.md - Parcel 4975965: 2,627 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4975965.md - Parcel 6201931: 2,623 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6201931.md - Parcel 5080978: 2,446 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5080978.md - Parcel 2416504: 2,350 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2416504.md - Parcel 4798104: 2,281 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4798104.md - Parcel 3005217: 2,261 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3005217.md - Parcel 5356215: 2,247 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5356215.md - Parcel 4975883: 2,226 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4975883.md - Parcel 5356189: 2,225 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5356189.md - Parcel 2035294: 2,204 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035294.md - Parcel 5356241: 2,179 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5356241.md - Parcel 2375044: 2,056 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2375044.md - Parcel 5037322: 1,908 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5037322.md - Parcel 2083547: 1,471 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083547.md - Parcel 2083539: 991 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083539.md - Parcel 2083538: 723 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083538.md - Parcel 2083551: 628 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083551.md - Parcel 5037318: 536 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5037318.md - Parcel 5037324: 362 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5037324.md - Parcel 4975967: 260 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4975967.md - Parcel 2083536: 249 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083536.md - Parcel 2083537: 228 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083537.md - Parcel 5037315: 211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5037315.md - Parcel 2416530: 205 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2416530.md - Parcel 5037297: 127 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5037297.md - Parcel 5037329: 123 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5037329.md - Parcel 5037305: 53 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5037305.md - Parcel 5080982: 53 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5080982.md - Parcel 4975888: 50 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4975888.md - Parcel 5037303: 32 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5037303.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 2 Jan 2025, Galway County Council 2560005: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560005/0 - 15 Dec 2022, Galway County Council 2261248: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2261248/0 - 22 Feb 2022, Galway County Council 2260137: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260137/0 - 30 Nov 2021, Galway County Council 212252: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/212252/0 - 17 Sept 2021, Galway County Council 211713: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/211713/0 - 13 May 2021, Galway County Council 21802: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a surfaced multiuse games area and additional play area with play equipment.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21802/0 - 1 Aug 2019, Galway County Council 191200: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191200/0 - 21 Feb 2019, Galway County Council 19237: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19237/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lurga. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lurga. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Bridge, 1865–1870, Regional interest, registry number 30412808, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30412808. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Lurga, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Lurga. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/lurga.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/lurga.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/lurga.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lurga with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cregboy: https://everytownland.com/galway/cregboy-61557.md - Curtaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/curtaun.md - Derry: https://everytownland.com/galway/derry-61757.md - Fiddaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/fiddaun-62019.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/lurga - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/lurga