Rooaunmore
Townland in the civil parish of Claregalway, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish An Ruán Mór
- Area
- 100.7 ha
- 249 acres
- Land parcels
- 94
- registered freehold, median 2,372 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rooaunmore, from 54 m² to 185,408 m² (18.54 ha, 45.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rooaunmore 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Apr 2026Conditional
to construct a serviced dwelling house, with a connection to a new wastewater treatment system, and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660541
12 Feb 2026N/a
to construct a serviced dwelling house, with a connection to a new wastewater treatment system, and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660211
3 Apr 2025Conditional
to construct a serviced dwelling house, with a connection to a new wastewater treatment system and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 263.10 sqm(H), 60.00 sqm(G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560366
28 Mar 2025Conditional
to construct a serviced dwelling house, with a connection to a new wastewater treatment system, and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: (H) 284.1 sqm & (G) 60 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560345
26 Apr 2024Conditional
to construct single storey extensions to the existing dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works: 38.30 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460473
3 Aug 2023Conditional
to demolish existing shed & to construct a slatted/cubicle shed to include concrete apron & all associated site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 23310
6 Jul 2023N/a
to construct a serviced dwellinghouse & domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360753
9 May 2022Refused
to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works 320.80sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260454
22 Mar 2022Refused
for Dwellinghouse, Domestic Garage, Wastewater Treatment System and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 262 sqm, Garage: 41.58 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22382
1 Oct 2021Conditional
of dwellinghouse as completed, revised site entrance and associated services on revised site boundaries, previous Pl. Ref. 07-1163.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211818
9 Oct 2020Conditional
for development which will consist of a five bedroom, two storey house with adjacent detached single store garage together will all ancillary site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 249 msq & 24 msq.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201480
9 Oct 2020Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: dwelling 219.5 sqm, Garage 50.72 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201489
19 Mar 2020Conditional
for (1) the demolition of an existing fire damaged dwelling house and (2) the construction of a replacement dwelling house on the same foundations (3) the construction of a new site entrance from the R354 (4) retention of garage, and store shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 208.6 sqm (House), Gross floor space of work to be retained: 179.55 sqm, Gross floor space of any demolition: 208.6 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20373
8 Mar 2019N/a
for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling - 219.5 sqm, Garage - 50.72 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19327
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rooaunmore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rooaunmore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rooaunmore.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_619 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rooaunmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Rooaunmore · An Ruán Mór
- Area
- 1,007,478 m² (100.75 ha, 248.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Claregalway, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Claregalway, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Claregalway electoral division: 2,388 people in 778 households; 74% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caraunkeelwy, Claregalway, Kiniska, Knockdoemore, Knockdoemore, Laghtgeorge, Peak
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Rooaunmore 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.