# Muckcoort, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeany, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Mucúrt. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,781,808 m² (278.18 ha, 687.4 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,705 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeany, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killeany.md - Barony: Clare - Electoral division: Killeany, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 617 people lived in 218 households in the Killeany electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21735 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63393 - Centre: latitude 53.424298, longitude -9.084534 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muckcoort, from 106 m² to 551,699 m² (55.17 ha, 136.33 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1956375: 551,699 m² (55.17 ha, 136.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956375.md - Parcel 1956359: 322,239 m² (32.22 ha, 79.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956359.md - Parcel 1995763: 280,594 m² (28.06 ha, 69.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995763.md - Parcel 1956366: 180,926 m² (18.09 ha, 44.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956366.md - Parcel 1994711: 157,856 m² (15.79 ha, 39.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994711.md - Parcel 1956356: 150,895 m² (15.09 ha, 37.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956356.md - Parcel 1994712: 146,338 m² (14.63 ha, 36.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994712.md - Parcel 1994722: 129,107 m² (12.91 ha, 31.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994722.md - Parcel 1956374: 113,615 m² (11.36 ha, 28.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956374.md - Parcel 1956360: 102,160 m² (10.22 ha, 25.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956360.md - Parcel 1994721: 92,546 m² (9.25 ha, 22.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994721.md - Parcel 1955348: 87,705 m² (8.77 ha, 21.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955348.md - Parcel 5124551: 67,254 m² (6.73 ha, 16.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5124551.md - Parcel 1994720: 49,695 m² (4.97 ha, 12.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994720.md - Parcel 1994723: 39,367 m² (3.94 ha, 9.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994723.md - Parcel 1956355: 36,280 m² (3.63 ha, 8.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956355.md - Parcel 4635560: 25,018 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635560.md - Parcel 1956376: 24,728 m² (2.47 ha, 6.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956376.md - Parcel 1995764: 10,966 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995764.md - Parcel 1994725: 9,842 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994725.md - Parcel 1994724: 8,979 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994724.md - Parcel 1994713: 8,863 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994713.md - Parcel 1956369: 7,408 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956369.md - Parcel 5257896: 4,780 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5257896.md - Parcel 1956368: 4,732 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956368.md - Parcel 1994714: 4,381 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994714.md - Parcel 4635543: 4,207 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635543.md - Parcel 1994716: 4,064 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994716.md - Parcel 1956372: 3,928 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956372.md - Parcel 4723815: 3,705 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723815.md - Parcel 4723801: 3,702 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723801.md - Parcel 1994710: 3,270 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994710.md - Parcel 1994715: 2,897 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994715.md - Parcel 5598870: 2,870 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5598870.md - Parcel 4934930: 2,724 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934930.md - Parcel 1994719: 2,582 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994719.md - Parcel 4635575: 2,554 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635575.md - Parcel 1956361: 2,515 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956361.md - Parcel 1956367: 2,490 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956367.md - Parcel 4635538: 2,221 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635538.md - Parcel 1956373: 1,987 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956373.md - Parcel 5343869: 1,097 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5343869.md - Parcel 1956362: 938 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956362.md - Parcel 5343879: 933 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5343879.md - Parcel 2112865: 745 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112865.md - Parcel 4635553: 582 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635553.md - Parcel 4635534: 569 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635534.md - Parcel 1956363: 334 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956363.md - Parcel 4728800: 244 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4728800.md - Parcel 1956365: 220 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956365.md - Parcel 4723701: 209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723701.md - Parcel 1994717: 185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994717.md - Parcel 4459772: 178 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4459772.md - Parcel 1956371: 172 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956371.md - Parcel 4723691: 169 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723691.md - Parcel 1956364: 132 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956364.md - Parcel 1994718: 119 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994718.md - Parcel 5343882: 113 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5343882.md - Parcel 1956370: 106 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956370.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Muckcoort 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) 9 applications, newest first. - 23 Oct 2025, Galway County Council 2561554: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a serviced dwelling house, garage and effluent treatment system. Permission is also sought to relocate relevant front boundaries walls so that the required sight lines can be obtained. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561554/0 - 11 Jun 2025, Galway County Council 2560740: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for a dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (H) 250 sqm & (G) 60 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560740/0 - 10 Jul 2023, Galway County Council 23279: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent system, a garage/shed & associated lanscaping works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/23279/0 - 16 Dec 2022, Galway County Council 2261265: Refused. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 193.00sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2261265/0 - 18 Aug 2022, Galway County Council 22988: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, a treatment plant system plus a garage. Also permission is being sought to relocate the front boundary walls/hedges so that the required sight lines can be achieved. Gross floor space of proposed works: 143 H and 60 sqm G. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/22988/0 - 6 Oct 2021, Galway County Council 211838: Refused. Permission, 1 home. for the infilling of a 3.78 hectare site, for agricultural improvement purposes, with greenfield soil and stone, and all associated site works and services to facilitate the development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/211838/0 - 17 Jun 2020, Galway County Council 20744: N/a. Permission. consisting of the infill of lands with non-hazardous inert fill material such as soils, clay, stone, hardcore, clean concrete rubble etc and all associated site works and services required to facilitate this development.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20744/0 - 5 Jul 2018, Galway County Council 18942: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 187.3 sqm. (garage) 60 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18942/0 - 22 Feb 2017, Galway County Council 17226: Unconditional. Extension of duration. to construct dwellinghouse, domestic garage,wastewater treatment system and all associated services (gross floor space 234.83sqm). Previous planning reference no: 11/1270. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17226/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC, site code 000297, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000297 - Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA, site code 004042, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004042 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib, site code 000297 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA056-083: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-083----. In low-lying scrubland. Almost circular cashel (D c. 32m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain by a field wall from WNW to N and from N to ESE by the td. boundary wall. Within WNW sector of the interior is a rectangular grassed-over stone structure (NNE-SSW; L 3.5m, Wth 1.2m) with a gap (Wth 0.75m) in SW wall; possibly a house. A collapsed stone wall runs NE-SW through W half of the interior. 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 - GA056-120: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-120----. On a ridge in grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. 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 - GA056-123: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-123----. In NW corner of a field in level grassland. The site of a 'cave' is now marked by a lintel-like stone. According to local information, the 'entrance' was blocked up with stones and soil during recent field-clearance operations. It reputedly runs on a N-S axis but could only be traced for 1.5m or so to N of the 'entrance'. 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 - GA056-126: House - indeterminate date, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-126----. In scrubland. Well-preserved drystone-built rectangular house (N-S; L 2.6, Wth 2.1m) with a lintelled doorway at E end of S wall. Immediately outside of it, an irregular area defined by a semicircular wall forms a possible annexe. 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 - GA056-127: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-127----. In low-lying grassland. Known locally as a 'cave', its exact location is still pointed out though no definite surface features survive. According to local information, it was used as a hiding place from the 'Black and Tans' and could accommodate '30 people' 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Muckcoort. ## 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 Muckcoort, 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. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Muckcoort. - 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/muckcoort.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/muckcoort.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/muckcoort.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Muckcoort 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) - Cloghanower: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloghanower.md - Keekill: https://everytownland.com/galway/keekill.md - Keernaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/keernaun.md - Kilgarriff: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilgarriff.md - Kiltrasna: https://everytownland.com/galway/kiltrasna.md - Lisheennageeha: https://everytownland.com/galway/lisheennageeha.md - Luimnagh West: https://everytownland.com/galway/luimnagh-west.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/muckcoort - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/muckcoort