Slieveroe

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slieveroe, from 58 m² to 239,401 m² (23.94 ha, 59.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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 Slieveroe 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.

• 10 Jul 2025Unconditional

  on pl. ref. 191996 for removal of existing chalet and the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage and on-site sewage treatment system along with all ancillary works.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 25169

• 13 Sept 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 213.00 sqm (house) & 50.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461208

• 10 Jun 2022Conditional

  of an existing dwelling and a domestic shed with associated services on revised boundaries, removal of the Enurement Clause previously granted under Pl.Ref: 10/748

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260599

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  is being sought for (1) removal of existing chalet and (2) the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage and on-site sewage treatment system along with all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: H: 170 sqm, G: 45 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 74 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191996

• 3 Aug 2017Conditional

  for development to consist of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all ancillary site works and services (Gross floor space of proposed works 298.1sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171180

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Slieveroe.

Architectural heritage

• Gortbrack Bridge, bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone bridge, buit c.1860, having walls of squared blocks and segmental arch having tooled voussoirs, and parapet walls having rock-faced coping stones placed sideways. Coursed limestone approach walls.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having flat-roof porch to front and flat-roof extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with scolloped ridge, low rendered chimneystacks, and rendered copings to gables. Whitewashed walls with parallel raised quoins, and with dentil detail to eaves. Square-headed replacement timber windows with limestone sills and render surrounds. Porch has round-arched opening to front. Outbuildings to rear.

• Gortbrack Bridge, bridge, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over river, built 1856. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked limestone walls with rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Black River with unkempt grass banks to river.

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 Slieveroe, 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 Slieveroe.

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

Name

Slieveroe · An Sliabh Rua

Area

1,872,657 m² (187.27 ha, 462.74 acres)

Civil parish

Killursa, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killursa, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,135 people lived in 397 households in the Killursa electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycurrin Demesne (Co. Mayo), Clerhaun, Coarsepark or Parkgarve, Gortbrack (Co. Mayo), Greenfield or Shanbally, Ulrith

Placenames

Slieveroe 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.