Mountsilk

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountsilk, from 21 m² to 126,581 m² (12.66 ha, 31.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Mountsilk 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.

• 15 Dec 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561856

• 27 May 2022Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to existing dwelling house with associated modifications to existing dwelling house, replacing existing septic tank with new waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed extension: 116 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260555

• 26 May 2022N/a

  for construction of an extension to existing dwelling house with associated modifications to existing dwelling house, replacing existing septic tank with new waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed extension: 116 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260538

• 2 Dec 2021N/a

  to construct an extension to existing dwelling house with associated modifications to existing dwelling house, replacing existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 116 sqm (extension)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212270

• 25 Nov 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 262 sqm = 222 sqm + 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212198

• 5 Nov 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 272 sqm = 232 sqm + 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212066

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Summerville Lough 001319

Recorded monuments

• GA045-028001 Church
  Description

  At W foot of an esker ridge running roughly N-S, in undulating farmland. Known locally as the 'Old church of Laught' (Claffey 1983, 156-7), it comprises a poorly preserved long rectangular building (N-S; L 22.3m, Wth 6m), probably a pre-emancipation RC chapel. The doorway, of which only the lower jambs survive, is roughly centrally placed in E wall, and is approached by a series of steps descending from the ridge summit. There are robbed window opes in N and S gables, and a small stone-built altar at S gable is set on a raised area defined by four steps. Immediately to N of this, traces of an internal subdivision are discernible underfoot; the floor itself appears to consist of grassed-over flagstones. The E and W walls appear to have been crudely repaired and traces of plaster are visible internally at S end. Directly inside the doorway is a broken holy water stoup which has been repaired and mounted on a stone plinth. The church is centrally placed within a small subrectangular enclosure (N-S 37m, E-W 20m) defined on S, W and N sides by a low bank which fades into the slope at E. There are traces of an external fosse along W side. A spring well lies close by to SW. Claffey (ibid., 94) claims that this is the 'probable location of a branch of the Franciscan community at kiltullagh' (see GA018-027001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA045-028002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA045-028003 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA045-028004 Well
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA045-056 Building
  Description

  In a sheltered low-lying area of grassland on the E side of a N-S running esker; a seasonal pond lies to the S. This rectangular building (10m NE-SW; 5m NW-SE; H 0.2m) is defined by grassed-over foundation lines. An entrance gap (Wth c. 1.2m) is evident on the S side. It appears to lie in a low-banked field or enclosure. The field was known locally as Laught Sportsfield (1902-1962) (information from T. Miller). The building is visible on the current OSi digitalglobe aerial photography. Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by T. Miller Date of upload: 15 March 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Mountsilk, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountsilk.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Mountsilk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Mountsilk · An Leacht

Area

429,747 m² (42.97 ha, 106.19 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Cooloo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

580 people lived in 201 households in the Cooloo electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creggauns, Moat, Moylough Beg, Summerville, Templemoyle

Placenames

Mountsilk 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.