Sroove
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcolgan, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Srúibh
- Area
- 31.2 ha
- 77 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 49,968 m² (5 ha, 12.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sroove, from 1,593 m² to 154,171 m² (15.42 ha, 38.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Sroove 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
26 Feb 2026Conditional
of a dwelling house on a site with revised site boundaries, provision of a granny flat/self contained residential unit linked to the dwelling house including a rear first floor extension along with minor elevation alterations and effluent treatment system including percolation area to replace the existing septic tank system, provision of a domestic garage ancillary to the dwelling and for all ancillary services and site works
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660308
20 Nov 2019Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and on-site sewage treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 204.7sqm, Garage 45 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191797
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 Sroove.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sroove.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sroove.
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, 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 Sroove.
- 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 Sroove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Sroove · Srúibh
- Area
- 311,720 m² (31.17 ha, 77.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolgan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Rahasane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rahasane electoral division: 363 people in 121 households; 93% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherduff, Castletaylor North, Cloghroak, Gortroe, Toberacreggaun
- Placenames
- Sroove 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.