Muckcoort

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muckcoort, from 106 m² to 551,699 m² (55.17 ha, 136.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Muckcoort 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 Oct 2025Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house, garage and effluent treatment system. Permission is also sought to relocate relevant front boundaries walls so that the required sight lines can be obtained

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561554

• 11 Jun 2025Conditional

  for a dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (H) 250 sqm & (G) 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560740

• 10 Jul 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent system, a garage/shed & associated lanscaping works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23279

• 16 Dec 2022Refused

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 193.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261265

• 18 Aug 2022Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, a treatment plant system plus a garage. Also permission is being sought to relocate the front boundary walls/hedges so that the required sight lines can be achieved. Gross floor space of proposed works: 143 H and 60 sqm G

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22988

• 6 Oct 2021Refused

  for the infilling of a 3.78 hectare site, for agricultural improvement purposes, with greenfield soil and stone, and all associated site works and services to facilitate the development

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211838

• 17 Jun 2020N/a

  consisting of the infill of lands with non-hazardous inert fill material such as soils, clay, stone, hardcore, clean concrete rubble etc and all associated site works and services required to facilitate this development.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20744

• 5 Jul 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 187.3 sqm. (garage) 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18942

• 22 Feb 2017Unconditional

  to construct dwellinghouse, domestic garage,wastewater treatment system and all associated services (gross floor space 234.83sqm). Previous planning reference no: 11/1270

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 17226

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
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA056-083 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In low-lying scrubland. Almost circular cashel (D c. 32m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain by a field wall from WNW to N and from N to ESE by the td. boundary wall. Within WNW sector of the interior is a rectangular grassed-over stone structure (NNE-SSW; L 3.5m, Wth 1.2m) with a gap (Wth 0.75m) in SW wall; possibly a house. A collapsed stone wall runs NE-SW through W half of the interior. 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

• GA056-120 Enclosure
  Description

  On a ridge in grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA056-123 Souterrain
  Description

  In NW corner of a field in level grassland. The site of a 'cave' is now marked by a lintel-like stone. According to local information, the 'entrance' was blocked up with stones and soil during recent field-clearance operations. It reputedly runs on a N-S axis but could only be traced for 1.5m or so to N of the 'entrance'. 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

• GA056-126 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In scrubland. Well-preserved drystone-built rectangular house (N-S; L 2.6, Wth 2.1m) with a lintelled doorway at E end of S wall. Immediately outside of it, an irregular area defined by a semicircular wall forms a possible annexe. 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

• GA056-127 Souterrain
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. Known locally as a 'cave', its exact location is still pointed out though no definite surface features survive. According to local information, it was used as a hiding place from the 'Black and Tans' and could accommodate '30 people' 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 Muckcoort.

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 Muckcoort, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Muckcoort · Mucúrt

Area

2,781,808 m² (278.18 ha, 687.4 acres)

Civil parish

Killeany, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killeany, the unit of the census

Census 2022

617 people lived in 218 households in the Killeany electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghanower, Keekill, Keernaun, Kilgarriff, Kiltrasna, Lisheennageeha, Luimnagh West

Placenames

Muckcoort 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.