# Monroe, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lackagh, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish An Mhóin Rua. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,276,762 m² (127.68 ha, 315.49 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,254 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lackagh, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/lackagh.md - Barony: Clare - Electoral division: Lackaghbeg, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,614 people lived in 533 households in the Lackaghbeg electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18735 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63339 - Centre: latitude 53.388492, longitude -8.899845 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monroe, from 7 m² to 237,892 m² (23.79 ha, 58.78 acres); 42 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2088128: 237,892 m² (23.79 ha, 58.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088128.md - Parcel 2039568: 231,922 m² (23.19 ha, 57.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039568.md - Parcel 2088139: 173,862 m² (17.39 ha, 42.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088139.md - Parcel 2088132: 164,904 m² (16.49 ha, 40.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088132.md - Parcel 2088134: 63,300 m² (6.33 ha, 15.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088134.md - Parcel 2088131: 52,846 m² (5.28 ha, 13.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088131.md - Parcel 2039565: 51,553 m² (5.16 ha, 12.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039565.md - Parcel 2088122: 51,024 m² (5.1 ha, 12.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088122.md - Parcel 2088123: 44,665 m² (4.47 ha, 11.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088123.md - Parcel 2039559: 43,619 m² (4.36 ha, 10.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039559.md - Parcel 2088127: 32,611 m² (3.26 ha, 8.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088127.md - Parcel 2039569: 27,901 m² (2.79 ha, 6.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039569.md - Parcel 2039567: 26,531 m² (2.65 ha, 6.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039567.md - Parcel 2088136: 20,054 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088136.md - Parcel 2088137: 6,384 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088137.md - Parcel 2039564: 4,093 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039564.md - Parcel 2039563: 3,245 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039563.md - Parcel 2088129: 3,174 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088129.md - Parcel 5957421: 2,392 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5957421.md - Parcel 4630579: 2,349 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4630579.md - Parcel 2681925: 2,278 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2681925.md - Parcel 6142791: 2,231 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6142791.md - Parcel 2039570: 2,187 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039570.md - Parcel 5957377: 2,178 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5957377.md - Parcel 2088124: 2,131 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088124.md - Parcel 5308756: 2,071 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5308756.md - Parcel 2039560: 2,071 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039560.md - Parcel 2039566: 2,063 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039566.md - Parcel 2682014: 1,987 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2682014.md - Parcel 2088135: 1,831 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088135.md - Parcel 2088133: 1,830 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088133.md - Parcel 2039561: 1,791 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039561.md - Parcel 3729594: 1,750 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3729594.md - Parcel 2088130: 1,419 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088130.md - Parcel 2088138: 1,407 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088138.md - Parcel 2039562: 1,402 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039562.md - Parcel 2088126: 1,308 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088126.md - Parcel 2088125: 197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088125.md - Parcel 2681995: 170 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2681995.md - Parcel 5308770: 119 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5308770.md - Parcel 5527860: 13 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5527860.md - Parcel 5465200: 7 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5465200.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Monroe 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 29 Jul 2026, Galway County Council 2661310: Conditional. Retention. and completion of a domestic garage and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661310/0 - 16 Mar 2026, Galway County Council 2660401: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. to complete; a) alterations to existing ridge height including change of design from hipped roof to gable roof design; b) provision of storage space and office space within attic space; c) alterations to existing elevations including the provision of rooflights and windows to the southwest and southeast elevations of existing dwelling house, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660401/0 - 4 Feb 2020, Galway County Council 20118: N/a. Permission, 1 home. for construction of new dwelling along with domestic garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 224 sqm, Garage - 40.5 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20118/0 - 30 Sept 2019, Galway County Council 191511: Refused. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of new dwelling along with domestic garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 197 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191511/0 - 24 Sept 2019, Galway County Council 191476: Refused. Permission. for the construction of new dwelling along with domestic garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 244 sqm, Garage - 40.5 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191476/0 - 28 Feb 2019, Galway County Council 19277: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment plant and percolation area including all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 191 sqm, Garage - 50 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19277/0 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 Monroe. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monroe. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monroe. ## 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 Monroe, about 1 in 5 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. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monroe. - 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/monroe.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/monroe.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/monroe.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Monroe 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) - Cahernahoon: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahernahoon.md - Carraghy: https://everytownland.com/galway/carraghy.md - Corbally: https://everytownland.com/galway/corbally-61459.md - Corbally South: https://everytownland.com/galway/corbally-south.md - Knockdoebeg East: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockdoebeg-east.md - Knockdoebeg West: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockdoebeg-west.md - Racoona: https://everytownland.com/galway/racoona.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/monroe - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/monroe