Maum

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maum, from 9 m² to 161,567 m² (16.16 ha, 39.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Maum 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.

• 28 Jun 2025Conditional

  to a) Decommission of existing septic tank and the installation of a new sewage treatment system. b) Decommission existing vehicular entrance and the construction of a new entrance driveway to existing dwelling & c) all ancillary site works and site services. This application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560860

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  to (1) construct new domestic garage, (2) retain minor alterations to existing elevations and floor layout on previously grant Pl ref no 16/1760 & (3) all associated site works. Gross floor space of works: 56.04 sqm(garage) & 165.00 sqm(house)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2461780

• 27 Apr 2023Conditional

  for a development consisting of: (a) renovation of existing dwelling house and change of use to home studio (b) construction of replacement dwelling house on foot print of dilapidated buildings (c) upgrading wastewater treatment system (d) associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23163

• 16 Sept 2021Conditional

  to (1) raise roof height of existing cottage to allow for habitable rooms in the attic space (2) proposed windows in gables and velux windows in proposed roof as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 62.5 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211735

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: Slyne Head Peninsula SAC 002074
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slyne Head Peninsula 002074

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Maum.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Maum, 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 Maum.

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

Name

Maum · An Mám

Area

1,269,090 m² (126.91 ha, 313.6 acres)

Civil parish

Ballindoon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Errislannan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

234 people lived in 84 households in the Errislannan electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 51% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinaboy, Derryeighter, Drinagh

Placenames

Maum 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.