Urracly

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Urracly, from 90 m² to 187,663 m² (18.77 ha, 46.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Urracly 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.

• 7 Aug 2026Conditional

  for the extension of the previously permitted land improvement works under Plan File Ref. No. 21/1887, by the importation of clean inert soil and stone, and where applicable soil and stone by-product, in order to achieve a final landform that integrates with the surrounding agricultural topography; installation of a weighbridge; all associated ancillary facilities, including the existing entrance and wheel wash; and all within an overall application area of approximately 2.3 ha. The applicant is seeking permission for infilling and associated activities over a period of approximately 6 years, following which the lands will be restored for agricultural use

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661363

• 20 Aug 2025Refused

  for the importation of materials comprising of soil/inert deposits on an enlarged site to that previously approved under planning reference 21/1887 (extended area 2.32Ha). The purpose of importation is to reclaim the land for agricultural purposes, increasing the depth on site by an average of 1m, and all associated works. The total maximum annual permitted tonnage of imported material will not exceed 15,000 tonnes per calendar year at the proposed facility

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561153

• 27 Mar 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 114.00 sqm(H), 20.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560322

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 112 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211902

• 12 Oct 2021Conditional

  a) existing soil/inert material deposited on site over a number of years, b) retain widened second entrance for the purpose of depositing soil on site and c) to continue to deposit soil on site to an average of 1m depth over an area of 1 hectare for reclaiming for agriculture purposes and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1.0ha

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211887

• 27 Jan 2020Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 141.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2088

• 16 Sept 2019Conditional

  to construct a new agricultural entrance/exit gate and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191430

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rathbaun Turlough 000215
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Altore Lake 000224

Recorded monuments

• GA015-051 Enclosure
  Description

  In grassland overlooking a turlough to SW. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m) cut at E and W by a road. No visible surface trace survives, apart from a oval hollow immediately S of the road. 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

• GA015-053 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  On a rise in pastureland overlooking 'Rathbaun Turlough' to the SW. Named 'Urracly Ho.' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and depicted as T-shaped dwelling aligned NNE-SSW; on the 1916 edition it is shown as an unroofed rectangular building. Most of the house (L 14.5m; Wth 5.6m; Wall T 0.6m) has been levelled but the S wall and the returns of the E (L 6.5m) and W (L 4.4m) walls survive to a height of two storeys. Only the lower courses of the N wall survive at its junction with the E wall. The house is built of roughly worked stone with a course limestone mortar; some red brick is also visible. A rectangular doorway is centrally placed in the S wall and internally an alcove is visible on each side of it. The edge of a window embrasure is visible on the 1st floor of the E wall. Beam slots on the E and W walls indicate the 1st floor level. No other architectural features are evident and there is no trace of internal or external rendering. A field wall overlies the levelled line of the E wall. According to local information, the house was once used as a barracks. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 January 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Urracly.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Urracly, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Urracly.

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.

No address of the register names Urracly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Urracly · Urchlaí

Area

2,503,884 m² (250.39 ha, 618.72 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconla, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Foxhall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

675 people lived in 239 households in the Foxhall electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyheeragh (Caslane) (Co. Mayo), Belmont, Blindwell, Garrymore (Co. Mayo), Lissananny

Placenames

Urracly 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.