Mountgarret

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountgarret, from 468 m² to 92,026 m² (9.2 ha, 22.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Mountgarret 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.

• 12 Dec 2025Conditional

  to erect a dwelling house, with waste treatment system, percolation area, along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561841

• 2 Jun 2022Conditional

  of dwelling house, domestic garage with minor alterations on revised site boundaries and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 197.49sqm + 51sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22715

• 3 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment plant and polishing filter and all associated services (gross floor space 294sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17975

• 6 Mar 2017N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment plant and polishing filter and all associated services (Proposed development: House 214 sqm., Garage 80 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17299

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 Mountgarret.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountgarret.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mountgarret.

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

Name

Mountgarret · Cnoc Ghearóid

Area

700,905 m² (70.09 ha, 173.2 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Tiaquin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tiaquin electoral division: 792 people in 250 households; 89% of households own their home; 59% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartron, Corrantarramud, Glennagloghaun South, Knockbrack, Nurserypark or Corrabaun, Pollavullaun, Tisaxon

Placenames

Mountgarret 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.