Muckrush

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muckrush, from 10 m² to 93,328 m² (9.33 ha, 23.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Muckrush 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 May 2025Conditional

  of the existing three agricultural sheds and their associated auxiliary works. Construct a new three bay slatted shed with feeding passage, underground effluent storage facilities, creep areas, external concrete apron and all ancillary site works. This application is accompanied with a Site Specific Flood Risk Assessment, Appropriate Assessment Screening report and a Natura Impact Statement report (NIS) plus a Construction and Environmental Management Plan. Gross floor area of proposed works: 218.00 sqm. Gross floor area of retention: 621.00 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560589

• 28 Nov 2024N/a

  to retain the existing three agricultural sheds and their associated auxiliary works, to construct a new three bay slatted shed with feeding passage, underground effluent storage facilities, creep areas, external concrete apron and all ancillary site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 218.00 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 621.00 sqm. This application is accompanied with a Site Specific Flood Risk Assessment, Appropriate Assessment Screening report and a Natura Impact Statement report (NIS) plus a Construction and Environmental Management Plan

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461625

• 29 Apr 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. A Natura Impact Statement is submitted with this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 169.60 sqm (house) & 48 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460475

• 21 Jun 2018Conditional

  for construction of a detached dwelling house, with an on-site sewage treatment system and percolation area along with all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works 142 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18840

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Muckrush.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having flat-roof addition to rear. Pitched reed thatched roof with raised scolloped ridge and low rendered chimneystack. Whitewashed walls with large blocks of stone. Small square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane windows and square-headed doorway with timber battened door. Grassy margin to road to front. Outbuildings to east.

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Muckrush · Mucrois

Area

1,372,762 m² (137.28 ha, 339.22 acres)

Civil parish

Annaghdown, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Annaghdown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Annaghdown electoral division: 1,978 people in 678 households; 86% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barranny, Shankill

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Muckrush 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.