Glenloughaun

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenloughaun, from 42 m² to 196,527 m² (19.65 ha, 48.56 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 Glenloughaun 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.

• 18 Nov 2025Refused

  for the construction of an anaerobic digestion facility to produce renewable biomethane, CO2 (which will be captured), and a bio-based fertiliser from organic material. The development is a renewable energy development which is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III. The development will consist of the following: Demolition and site clearance works including the removal of an existing shed and adjacent hard standing areas and tank structure, located centrally on the site. Construction of 2 no. primary digesters, a pump house, and 2 no. post digester tanks, located in the northwestern section of the site. Construction of 2 no. prepits, a pasteurisation buffer tank, and a pasteurisation unit, located to south of the primary digesters, within the western section of the site. Construction of a digestate storage tank located centrally on site, to the southeast of the primary and post digester tanks. Construction of a digestate treatment building and a feedstock reception building with an odour abatement system, located in the southwestern section of site. Construction of combined heat and power (CHP) unit, a biogas boiler, a backup boiler, and a gas treatment system, located in the southeast section of the site. Construction of a CO2 liquefactor and an emergency/ safety flare a grid injection unit, a fuel storage tank and a propane tank compound accommodating 2 no. propane tanks, located in the southern section of the site. Construction of roofed silage clamps located centrally on site. Construction of a two storey office building and an ESB substation within the eastern section of the site, adjacent to the site entrance. Alterations to the adjacent local road frontage including improved access arrangements and boundary setback to allow for improved access and safety. Associated and ancillary works including parking (8 no. standard, 3 no. EV and 1 no. accessible parking spaces and bike storage for 12 no. bikes), a weighbridge, solar PV arrays at roof level, wastewater treatment equipment, bunding and surface treatments, attenuation pond, boundary treatments, lighting, services, drainage, landscaping, and all associated and ancillary works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with this planning application. An EPA-Industrial Emissions Directive (IE) licence will be applied for to facilitate the operation of the proposed development. This development is covered by the provis

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561691

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: Glenloughaun Esker SAC 002213

Recorded monuments

• GA087-093 Church
  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.

• GA087-093001 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.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Matthew's Church (Clontuskert), church/chapel, 1680–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, having two-bay nave built c.1700, with two-stage square-plan Board of First Fruits tower built c.1820, chancel built c.1900, and lean-to vestry to south-east corner of nave. Pitched slate roofs with cut limestone copings and with rendered chimneystack to vestry. Crenellations to tower with cut limestone finials and corbelled string course. Roughcast rendered walls, with lozenge-shaped panels to tower. Pointed arch window openings with cut limestone sills, having paired four-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with Y-tracery above to north elevation of nave, windows temporarily covered to south elevation, and replacement uPVC window to chancel. Square-headed window opening to vestry, with cut limestone sill and replacement uPVC window. Round-headed blind lancets to side walls of and flanking tower. Pointed arch door opening to tower with moulded limestone surround, hood-moulding and timber battened double-leaf door. Set in graveyard, with grave markers to site. Rubble stone boundary walls, to site and to entrance laneway, cut limestone square-profile piers with pointed capstones to site entrance, with wrought-iron double-leaf gate and rubble limestone quadrant walls, having matching terminating piers, one replaced with mass concrete pier with cut limestone pointed cap.

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 Glenloughaun, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Glenloughaun · Gleann an Locháin

Area

1,215,700 m² (121.57 ha, 300.41 acres)

Civil parish

Clontuskert, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Kellysgrove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

386 people lived in 129 households in the Kellysgrove electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortnahorna (Clancarty), Graigueawoneen, Kellysgrove, Liscappul, Mackney (Clancarty), Mackney (Kelly), Templepark, Urraghry

Placenames

Glenloughaun 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.