Mira

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mira, from 103 m² to 428,214 m² (42.82 ha, 105.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Mira 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 Jun 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, wastewater system, garage & all associates site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660923

• 27 Mar 2026Conditional

  for changes to dwelling & garage floor plans, as previously approved in Pl. Ref: 24/61352

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660474

• 1 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house, with a connection to a new wastewater treatment system, and a domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561229

• 14 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the construction of new dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system, & all associated site services. Previous Pl Ref. 24/60737. Gross floor space of proposed works: 202 sqm (House) & 40 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461352

• 6 Sept 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 252.00 sqm (house) & 56.90 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461179

• 25 Jun 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 202.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460775

• 17 Jun 2024Refused

  for construction of new dwelling house, wastewater system, garage & all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 202.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460737

• 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

• 27 Sept 2022Conditional

  to construct (I) Milking parlour, incorporating dairy, plant, storage, meal bin, rain water storage tank, holding yard with crush/drafting yard, underground effluent tank (ii) Cubicle shed with underground effluent tanks and all associated site works. Permission for retention for slatted is also required. Gross floor space of proposed works 507 sqm, gross floor space of works to be retained 169 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 221071

• 1 Sept 2021Conditional

  of a domestic garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 41.7 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211592

• 6 Nov 2019Conditional

  to construct (i) Milking parlour building incorporating holding yard with crush/drafting yard, meal bin, Office, slatted tank with flow channel, storage rooms and plant rooms (ii) Feeding shed with slatted tanks and all assorted site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 678 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191730

• 23 Aug 2019Conditional

  for extension to side and rear of existing dwellinghouse. Gross floor space of proposed works: 34 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191311

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 Mira.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mira.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Mira.

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

Name

Mira · Meidhre

Area

2,076,705 m² (207.67 ha, 513.16 acres)

Civil parish

Athenry, 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, Cloonnavaddoge, Garraun, Island, Laragh More, Parkgarve, Rathfee

Placenames

Mira 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.