Shrulegrove
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghpatrick, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Sruthair
- Area
- 86.7 ha
- 214 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 8,793 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shrulegrove, from 26 m² to 121,718 m² (12.17 ha, 30.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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
- M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Jul 2025Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area, and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 343.00 sqm(H), 40.00 sqm(G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560870
21 Dec 2021Conditional
to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling house: 271 sqm, Garage: 48 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212450
21 Nov 2018Conditional
for an extension and alterations to an existing commercial garage and resurfacing of associated yard area with services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 267.9 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 181661
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 Shrulegrove.
Recorded monuments
- GA028-041 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the top of a rise in otherwise low-lying grassland. Subcircular ringfort (N-S 29.3m, E-W 24.5m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank only survives from S to WNW. Well-preserved stone-lined entrance gap (Wth 1.85m) at S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA028-049 Road - road/trackway
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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shrulegrove.
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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shrulegrove.
- 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 Shrulegrove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Shrulegrove · Sruthair
- Area
- 866,758 m² (86.68 ha, 214.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghpatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Donaghpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donaghpatrick electoral division: 584 people in 210 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowmore, Dalgan Demesne (Co. Mayo), Joyce's Park, Shrule (Co. Mayo), Tonacooleen
- Placenames
- Shrulegrove 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.