Tullaghmore
Tullaghmore is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is An Tulach Mhór.
- Area
- 179.6 ha
- 444 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 57,269 m² (5.73 ha, 14.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullaghmore, from 3,514 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres) to 1,508,562 m² (150.86 ha, 372.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tullaghmore 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
24 Oct 2024Conditional
to construct a general purpose agricultural shed together with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 186.2 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 24311
26 Jan 2023Refused
for the erection of 6 no. wind turbines with an overall ground to blade tip height of 185m with a rotor diameter of 162m and a hub height of 104m. The development will also consist of the construction of crane hardstand areas and turbine foundations, improvement of existing site entrance with access onto the N59, construction of one no. temporary construction compound with associated temporary site offices, parking areas and security fencing, installation of 1 no. permanent meteorological mast of 104m overall height, construction of new internal site access tracks and upgrade of existing site track, to include all associated drainage including new clear span bridge crossing of the Owenwee River, development of a site drainage network, construction of one no. permanent 38kV substation, all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the wind turbines to the wind farm substation and biodiversity enhancement measures and peat storage and restoration areas.Gross floor space of proposed works 93.48sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 2360051
2 Jun 2021Conditional
of a temporary Meteorological Mast and associated site works that will operate for a further two years. The meteorological mast will retain its finished height not exceeding 80m above existing ground level consisting of a lattice tubular frame, guy wires and ancillary equipment.
Retention · Galway County Council, 21963
21 Oct 2020Conditional
to construct a General Purpose Shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 91.5sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 201558
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 Tullaghmore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tullaghmore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tullaghmore.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Tullaghmore, 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 Tullaghmore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tullaghmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Tullaghmore · An Tulach Mhór
- Area
- 1,795,842 m² (179.58 ha, 443.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcummin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycullen
- Electoral division
- Letterfore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 283 people lived in 108 households in the Letterfore electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappanalaurabaun, Curraun Hill, Derreennagusfoor, Derrybeg, Letterkeeghaun, Tawnaghbeg
- Placenames
- Tullaghmore 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.