Ahgloragh

150 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ahgloragh, from 9 m² to 106,204 m² (10.62 ha, 26.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Ahgloragh 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.

• 23 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 145 sqm (house) 50 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561002

• 6 Feb 2024Conditional

  for Instream habitat restoration works in the Omaum River: including the addition of spawning gravel, random boulders, installation of paired deflectors and the excavation of pools. The development will include riparian buffer fencing, tree planting and installation of a solar drinking trough along the Omaum River. The NIS has been summited

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2435

• 19 Nov 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension to the side of an existing dwelling and for the removal of an existing porch and for all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 55.8 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212167

• 1 Dec 2020Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage / fuel store, treatment system/ septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works; (house) 232.5sqm & (garage) 60sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201812

• 13 Jun 2019Conditional

  of an existing single storey dwelling house and associated domestic garage on a site with revised site boundaries. Previous planning reference 26492 refers to the original permission. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 158.5 sqm (House - 123.5 sqm, Garage - 35 sqm)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19893

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA044-003001 Church
  Description

  In level pastureland. Very poorly preserved rectangular church (E-W; L 6.65m, Wth 3.95m) situated within W half of a subrectangular platform (E-W 34.3m, N-S 28.6m) defined by a low scarp. Only the lower courses of E and S walls of church survive with a gap at SE corner. The W wall is grassed over and only intermittent inner wall-footings of N wall are visible. No architectural features survive. A graveyard lies immediately to S, and burials are indicated by small set field stones. 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

• GA044-003002 Graveyard
  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.

• GA044-003003 Enclosure
  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.

• GA044-004 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a ridge in rolling farmland liable to flooding, the Grange River flows to E. In existence in 1574 when 'Castle moell' was in the possession of 'Edmund McMelaghlin' (Nolan 1901b, 117). No visible surface trace survives. Some cut-stone fragments from it are incorporated into the adjoining field walls. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ahgloragh, about 1 in 5 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 Ahgloragh.

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 Ahgloragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ahgloragh · An tÁth Glórach

Area

1,601,631 m² (160.16 ha, 395.77 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Levally, the unit of the census

Census 2022

437 people lived in 148 households in the Levally electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartronroe, Castlemoyle, Coolpark, Grange, Killeighter, Kilmore, Monumentpark

Placenames

Ahgloragh 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.