# Oorid, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish Úraid. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 6,112,222 m² (611.22 ha, 1,510.36 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 41,602 m² (4.16 ha, 10.28 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcummin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilcummin.md - Barony: Moycullen - Electoral division: Turlough, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20934 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63483 - Centre: latitude 53.441324, longitude -9.631214 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oorid, from 642 m² to 2,833,075 m² (283.31 ha, 700.07 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2375280: 2,833,075 m² (283.31 ha, 700.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2375280.md - Parcel 4885744: 1,225,867 m² (122.59 ha, 302.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4885744.md - Parcel 4885740: 632,312 m² (63.23 ha, 156.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4885740.md - Parcel 2042235: 172,109 m² (17.21 ha, 42.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042235.md - Parcel 2091098: 165,089 m² (16.51 ha, 40.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091098.md - Parcel 2023072: 151,707 m² (15.17 ha, 37.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023072.md - Parcel 2091099: 121,196 m² (12.12 ha, 29.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091099.md - Parcel 2042236: 117,347 m² (11.73 ha, 29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042236.md - Parcel 2042234: 110,779 m² (11.08 ha, 27.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042234.md - Parcel 4456843: 103,205 m² (10.32 ha, 25.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456843.md - Parcel 2375279: 82,595 m² (8.26 ha, 20.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2375279.md - Parcel 2375281: 70,615 m² (7.06 ha, 17.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2375281.md - Parcel 2023069: 54,526 m² (5.45 ha, 13.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023069.md - Parcel 2042229: 54,462 m² (5.45 ha, 13.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042229.md - Parcel 2042233: 52,139 m² (5.21 ha, 12.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042233.md - Parcel 2091097: 31,064 m² (3.11 ha, 7.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091097.md - Parcel 2042230: 29,920 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042230.md - Parcel 2042228: 27,328 m² (2.73 ha, 6.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042228.md - Parcel 4456844: 14,945 m² (1.49 ha, 3.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456844.md - Parcel 2042232: 10,467 m² (1.05 ha, 2.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042232.md - Parcel 2023070: 10,297 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023070.md - Parcel 2023068: 10,030 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023068.md - Parcel 2023071: 6,356 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023071.md - Parcel 2042333: 6,237 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042333.md - Parcel 4675507: 5,389 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4675507.md - Parcel 4456845: 5,269 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456845.md - Parcel 4669947: 3,678 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4669947.md - Parcel 4647998: 2,312 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4647998.md - Parcel 2042332: 1,414 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042332.md - Parcel 2042231: 642 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042231.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 15 May 2023, Galway County Council 2360503: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360503/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC, site code 002034, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002034 - Special Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA, site code 004181, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004181 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex, site code 002034 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA052-002: Burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA052-002----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA052-006----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA052-007----. 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 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 Oorid. ## 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 Oorid, about 1 in 20 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 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 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/oorid.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/oorid.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/oorid.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Oorid 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) - Boheeshal: https://everytownland.com/galway/boheeshal.md - Bunscanniff: https://everytownland.com/galway/bunscanniff.md - Halfcartron: https://everytownland.com/galway/halfcartron.md - Shannakeela: https://everytownland.com/galway/shannakeela.md - Shannavara: https://everytownland.com/galway/shannavara.md - Turlough: https://everytownland.com/galway/turlough-64159.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/oorid - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/oorid