Monearmore
Townland in the civil parish of Loughrea, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish An Móinéar Mór
- Area
- 15.2 ha
- 38 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 1,117 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential Existing
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monearmore, from 37 m² to 36,852 m² (3.69 ha, 9.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Aug 2024Conditional
for change of use of first floor of existing Montessori/Pre School from residential to full day childcare use. Gross floor space of proposed work: 123.60 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461055
4 May 2022Conditional
to construct an extension at the front and rear of her dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works: 58.11 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22574
2 Sept 2021Unconditional
to demolish existing house, construction of 2 two-storey dwellings with one additional entrance and associated services (gross floor space demolition 215sqm; proposed 281sqm)
Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 211616
27 Feb 2020Conditional
for change of house plans and relocation of internal site boundary in relation to dwelling houses granted permission under planning reference number 16/485 all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 170sqm x 2 = 340sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20254
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Monearmore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monearmore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monearmore.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1014 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Monearmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Monearmore · An Móinéar Mór
- Area
- 152,078 m² (15.21 ha, 37.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Loughrea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughrea
- Electoral division
- Loughrea Urban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Loughrea Urban electoral division: 6,322 people in 2,508 households; 53% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caheronaun, Cosmona, Loughrea
- Placenames
- Monearmore 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.