Porridgetown East

118 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Porridgetown East, from 19 m² to 169,529 m² (16.95 ha, 41.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Porridgetown East 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.

• 11 Aug 2025Refused

  to renovate and extend an existing derelict cottage and outbuilding to include kitchen, living, utility areas, bathrooms, bedrooms, a detached shed, and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561098

• 23 Jan 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling, domestic garage and the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment and disposal system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 121.6 sqm (H), 60 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560064

• 21 Nov 2024Conditional

  of 1) dwelling as constructed 2) domestic garage & associated concrete yard as constructed 3) fuel store as constructed and all associated site works and services on revised site layout and revised site boundaries. Gross floor area of existing works: 130.5 sqm (house), 36.77 sqm(garage), 10.25 sqm (fuel store)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461579

• 19 Jan 2022Conditional

  of garage/shed as constructed with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of works to be retained 40sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260016

• 5 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct a domestic dwelling house, garage, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 230.33 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21306

• 14 Mar 2019Conditional

  of alterations to dwelling and a rear shed on an enlarged site. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Dwelling - 162.65 sqm, Shed - 20.5 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19359

• 11 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a detached dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system with all associated site works & ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 259.20 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181424

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

• GA055-063 Enclosure
  Description

  On a low knoll in marshy low-lying terrain. Poorly preserved, very overgrown subcircular enclosure (E-W c. 22m, N-S 19m) defined by a drystone wall composed of rough boulders. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, manufactured c.1880, comprising fluted shaft, head and domed cap, cow's tail handle, fluted detail to spout and simple cast-iron bucket grip. Set on concrete plinth with concrete parapet wall and steps.

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 Porridgetown East, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_357 (ZIP).

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

Name

Porridgetown East · Cnoc an Bhracháin Thoir

Area

974,800 m² (97.48 ha, 240.88 acres)

Civil parish

Killannin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Wormhole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,602 people lived in 844 households in the Wormhole electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraveha or Birchhall, Fahy, Gortnagroagh, Knockbaun, Oakfield or Gortnandarragh, Porridgetown West, Srue

Placenames

Porridgetown East 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.