Oghil More

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oghil More, from 129 m² to 222,866 m² (22.29 ha, 55.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Oghil More 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 2026N/a

  to erect a domestic/agricultural shed together with all necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660765

• 5 Apr 2022Refused

  of a material change of use from a domestic garage to contain living accommodation (consisting of a kitchen/living area, bedroom and shower room)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 22452

• 25 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank/treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 185.3 sqm, Garage: 60.4 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212222

• 17 Jun 2021Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tanks/ treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 100.6sqm (House) and 42.4sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211083

• 19 Nov 2020Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank/ treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. 100.6 sqm (house), 42.4 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201740

• 22 May 2019Conditional

  for change of prefabricated building providing afterschool facility approved under planning reference no. 171855 at Lawrencetown National School to a permanent single storey building with revised building layout, septic tank, connection to all essential services and all associated site development works. (Gross floor space 160sqm). Gross floor space of proposed works: 173 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19775

• 26 Jul 2018Conditional

  for a) a new two storey house, b) use of agricultural access for house access to the R355, c) a new proprietary waste water treatment system and filtration area, d) a new agricultural vehicular access to the R355, e) all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 232 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181061

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  for the following development at Laurencetown National School: (a) relocation of existing pedestrian entrances and car parking areas from front of school building to designated area within site curtilage (b) new site access and inner roadway with provisions for set down, staff and visitor carparking (c) construction of covered pedestrian walkway (d) construction of an all weather playing surface with perimeter fencing and flood lighting (e) new playing field with associated flood lighting (f) installation of 1 no. prefabricated modular portacabin unit for use as additional room space for after school with provisions for ancillary works and connection to existing septic tank system (g) new bicycle parking area with covered shelter (h) 1.5m wide pedestrian walkway to perimeter of site (i) and all associated external site works (gross floor space portacabin 53.55sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171855

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

Designated sites

The National Parks and Wildlife Service did not answer.

Recorded monuments

• GA100-143 Mill - corn
  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.

• GA100-144 Quarry
  Description

  At the SW end of a low esker ridge. A hachured feature marked on the 1946 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection to be a large irregular depression: a disused gravel quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 August 2014

• GA100-145 Quarry
  Description

  A possible enclosure noted on an aerial photograph (ASGAP 19:7, 9-11) proved on inspection in 1985 to be a disused subrectangular quarry pit delimited by upcast along its NE, SE and SW sides. From the air the upcast looked like a bank. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 August 2014

• GA100-148 Church
  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.

Architectural heritage

The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage did not answer.

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Oghil More · Eochaill Mhór

Area

1,385,151 m² (138.52 ha, 342.28 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Laurencetown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

397 people lived in 141 households in the Laurencetown electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhoose, Killevny, Kylemore, Laurencetown, Oghil Beg

Placenames

Oghil More 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.