Montpelier

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Montpelier, from 259 m² to 185,006 m² (18.5 ha, 45.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Montpelier 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.

• 25 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct a three-bay agricultural storage shed, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25255

• 14 Mar 2025Refused

  to construct a three-bay agricultural storage shed, together with all ancillary site works and services . Gross floor space of proposed works: 141.44 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2540

• 12 Oct 2022Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank with treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 147 sqm (dwelling house) and 60sqm (domestic garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261015

• 7 Apr 2022Conditional

  to demolish the existing storage shed and house ruins. Full planning permission sought to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel sore, septic tank, and treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 147 sqm (House) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22464

• 26 Oct 2021Conditional

  to change the use of one room of her dwelling house to use as part of her existing Creche and to retain alterations from that granted under planning reference 00-262. Gross floor space of proposed works: 20.65 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211996

• 22 Jul 2021Refused

  to change the use of one room of her dwelling house to use as part of her existing Creche. Gross floor space of proposed works is 20.65 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211332

• 21 Apr 2017Conditional

  for the change of house plans following grant of planning permission Ref. No. 15/444. Gross floor space of proposed works: 236sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17555

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 Montpelier.

Recorded monuments

• GA071-071 Enclosure
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (36.5m E-W; 33.7m N-S) defined by a degraded bank. A shallow hollow (L c. 14m; Wth c. 6m) is evident in the SW quadrant. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 April 2019

• GA084-099 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a hillock in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 34m) defined a collapsed drystone wall. A gap (Wth 4m) at E appears to be original (Cody 1989, 264-5, no. 88). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Montpelier.

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

Name

Montpelier · Montpelier

Area

1,234,243 m² (123.42 ha, 304.99 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Aughrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aughrim electoral division: 1,317 people in 436 households; 89% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydavid North, Carrowntober East, Knockbaun, Knockbrack, Skeaghaderreen, Tisaxon

Placenames

Montpelier 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.