Turloughmore Common
Townland in the civil parish of Lackagh, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish An Turlach Mór
- Area
- 23.3 ha
- 58 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turloughmore Common. 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
No zone of a development plan covers Turloughmore Common 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
13 Apr 2023Conditional
to change the location of the off licence previously granted under planning reference number 21/2207
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360378
25 Nov 2021Conditional
for the following: a) Retention of the change of use of part of the dwelling house as retail space, b) Retention of the change of use of part of the store as retail space, c) Permission to change of use of part of the dwelling house to retail space, d) Retention of the previous extension as retail space, e) Retention of the current elevations as constructed, f) Permission is being sought to construct a new extension to the side of the existing shop, and for changes to the front elevation. g) Permission is also being sought for a drinks off licence at this location as a part of this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 74.7 sqm (ext). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 5 sqm (prev ext)
Retention · Galway County Council, 212207
15 Jul 2021Refused
for the following: (a)Retention of the change of use of part of the dwelling house as retail space, b) Retention of the change of use of part of the store as retail space, c) Permission to change of use of part of the dwelling house to retail space, d) Retention of the previous extension as retail space, e) Retention of the current elevations as constructed, f) Permission is being sought to construct a new extension to the side of the existing shop, and for changes to the front elevation. g) Permission is also being sought for a drinks off license at this location as part of this application. Gross floor space of proposed works is 35.4 sqm.
Retention · Galway County Council, 211296
29 Apr 2021N/a
to retain a previous extension to the existing shop, to construct new extension to the existing shop, including one to the side, and for changes to the front elevation. Permission is also sought for a drinks off licence at this location as part of this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 73.6 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 9.5 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 21705
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 Turloughmore Common.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Turloughmore Common.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Turloughmore Common.
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 10 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 Turloughmore Common.
- 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 Turloughmore Common with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Turloughmore Common · An Turlach Mór
- Area
- 232,994 m² (23.3 ha, 57.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lackagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Lackaghbeg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lackaghbeg electoral division: 1,614 people in 533 households; 87% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyglass, Ballynasheeoge, Canteeny, Coolaran, Lackagh More, Monard
- Placenames
- Turloughmore Common 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.