Oorid

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oorid, from 642 m² to 2,833,075 m² (283.31 ha, 700.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Oorid 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 2023Conditional

  for the development consisting of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360503

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: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA 004181
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

• GA052-002 Burial ground
  Description

  On the summit of Tulach na Reilige overlooking Loch Úraid to NE. Indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map, it survives as a very small, slightly raised, rectangular area (L 13m, Wth 9m) which is, in turn, enclosed by an oval setting of stones. A number of irregular grave-markers are visible in the interior. Used as a CBG until c. 1900 (pers. comm. T. Robinson). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA052-006 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  On NW slope of Cnoc Úraid c. 175m SW of a stone pair (GA052-007----). It is a subcircular structure (N-S 10.9m, E-W 9m) built of large boulders and utilising areas of rock outcrop. The wall is poorly defined along eastern side, and there is a possible entrance at W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA052-007 Standing stone - pair
  Description

  Crowning a prominent glacial ridge at the foot of Cnoc Úraid. Incorporated into a modern L-shaped sheepfold. Aligned N-S and c. 1.15m apart. Both stones are subrectangular in plan. The N stone is prostrate (1.14m by 0.65m by 0.55m); S stone (H 1.15m). A house lies 175m to SW (GA052-006----). (Ó Nualláin 1988, 197, who interprets it as 'two uprights and a prostrate stone') The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Oorid, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, 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 Oorid.

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

Name

Oorid · Úraid

Area

6,112,222 m² (611.22 ha, 1,510.36 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Turlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

555 people lived in 222 households in the Turlough electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boheeshal, Bunscanniff, Halfcartron, Shannakeela, Shannavara, Turlough

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Oorid 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.