Durrow

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Durrow, from 19 m² to 256,846 m² (25.68 ha, 63.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Durrow 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.

• 13 Mar 2026N/a

  and completion of two dwelling houses (semi-detached) with connection to public sewer and watermain and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2660391

• 13 Mar 2026Conditional

  of dwelling house and garage/store granted under planning ref. 95/1076 on revised site boundaries

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2660392

• 17 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct two dwelling houses (Semi-detached) with connection to public sewer and watermain and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 208.72 sqm(H), 51.50 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560966

• 4 Dec 2024Conditional

  to retain covered car port, sensory area & open storage shed and construct side extension to existing dwelling on revised site boundaries along with associated siteworks. Gross floor area to be retained: 104.00 sqm(carport) & 201.00 sqm(house-extension)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461651

• 11 Jun 2024Conditional

  to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associates siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 246.00 sqm (house) & 42.50 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460703

• 17 Sept 2021Refused

  to construct dwelling house, connection to existing public sewer and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 134.0sqm

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 211710

• 17 Sept 2021Refused

  to construct dwelling house, connection to existing public sewer and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 139.70sqm

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 211711

• 30 May 2017Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, connection to existing public sewer and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 134.0sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17764

• 30 May 2017Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, connection to existing public sewer and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 139.70sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17765

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Durrow.

Recorded monuments

• GA002-020 Well
  Description

  Close to W bank of the River Suck in the grounds of Durrow House. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map, and in use as a spring well up to fifteen years ago. No visible surface trace survives. It was removed during road-widening operations. 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

• GA002-021 Church
  Description

  The following description has been uploaded from https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/30400204/saint-johns-church-durrow-ballymoe-co-galway last accessed 19 October 2020. Freestanding limestone-built Church of Ireland church, built 1832, having three-stage tower. Now roofless. Four-bay nave. Pitched roof, now missing covering, with cut-stone copings, and tower having crenellations and carved stone pinnacles with gable details. Coursed rubble limestone walls, having string courses between stages of tower, latter also having chamfered corners from just below strong course between lower stages. Pointed-arch windows with chamfered chiselled ashlar surrounds, and remains of metal latticework glazing. Pointed-arch doorway to tower, with similar detailing to windows, and having uninscribed shileld plaque above. Double-light window to vestry with carved limestone surround. Cast-iron railings of c.1850 to road boundary, topped with spearheads. Medieval-style nineteenth-century tomb of Bagot family to graveyard. Saint John's Church of Ireland church is a typical First Fruits church of about 1820. Though roofless it is an important landmark in the district and displays a wealth of good architectural detailing. The tower, with its well made pinnacles, is particularly noteworthy and the site, with spearheaded railings and a graveyard, adds considerably to the site. The church was primarily known as Oran Church but was also known as Drimtemple Church and Ballymoe Church. It was consecrated 15 August 1833 and closed c. 1962 (information from Mr M. Williams, July 2020). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 October 2020

• GA002-021001 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.

• GA002-022 Earthwork
  Description

  Immediately SE of the graveyard of the church (C of I) is an enigmatic earthwork. It comprises a rectangular area (E-W 15.5m, N-S 11.5m) defined by a steep-sided earthen bank (Wth 2.8m, H 1.5m, max.). This encloses a 19th-C burial-vault of the Baggot family and may be just a landscaped surround, albeit a sizeable one. Alcock et. al. (1999, 239, No. 2927) imply a possible association with the mid-17th century bastioned fort (see GA002-022001-); this does not seem likely. O. Alcock, K. de hÓra and P. Gosling, Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999) Revised by: Paul Walsh Date of revision: 20 January 2012

• GA002-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland 150m SW of the River Suck. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 45m, N-S 39m) defined by a scarp quarried out at S, and overlain by field-clearance rubble at SW. 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

• GA002-024 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

• GA002-025 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.

• GA002-027 Barracks
  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.

• GA002-028 Bridge
  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.

• GA002-029 Mill - corn
  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.

• GA002-030 Kiln - corn-drying
  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.

• GA002-031 Mill - corn
  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.

• GA002-033 Building
  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.

• GA002-034 Town
  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.

• RO034-024 Bridge
  Description

  A bridge is shown on a Petty map of Ballymoe half-barony, dated 1683, and on all additions of the OS 6-inch map. The present bridge on a NW-SE section of the River Suck and the border with Co. Galway was built in 1978 on the site of the older one, of which there is no trace. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Castlereagh Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1820, over Island River. Comprises walls of coursed large blocks of squared stone, segmental arches with ashlar voussoirs, and piers having round-plan cutwaters. Parapets capped with flat stones.

• Ballymore Garda Síochána Station, house, 1850–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey house, formerly Garda station, built c.1875, and having three-bay first floor and four-bay ground floor. Pitched slate roof with roughcast rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, having inscribed limestone plaque marking house as birthplace of Éamonn Ceannt, signatory of the Declaration of the Irish Republic in 1916. square-headed six-over-six-pane timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills, and square-headed doorways, that to public office being later addition of c.1935 to Board of Works design and having ashlar limestone surround with lintel and cornice, and glazed timber panelled door. Building has garden to front bounded by low coursed rubble limestone wall with edge-set coping stones, and wrought-iron pedestrian gate between cut-stone piers. Outbuilding to rear with lean-to roof and rendered walls.

• Saint John's Church (Drumatemple), church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding limestone-built Church of Ireland church, built 1832, having three-stage tower. Now roofless. Four-bay nave. Pitched roof, now missing covering, with cut-stone copings, and tower having crenellations and carved stone pinnacles with gable details. Coursed rubble limestone walls, having string courses between stages of tower, latter also having chamfered corners from just below strong course between lower stages. Pointed-arch windows with chamfered chiselled ashlar surrounds, and remains of metal latticework glazing. Pointed-arch doorway to tower, with similar detailing to windows, and having uninscribed shileld plaque above. Double-light window to vestry with carved limestone surround. Cast-iron railings of c.1850 to road boundary, topped with spearheads. Medieval-style nineteenth-century tomb of Bagot family to graveyard.

• Saint John's Church (Drumatemple), graveyard/cemetery, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Fresstanding carved limestone tomb of John Lloyd Bagot who died 1863. Comprises ashlar table tomb with recumbent figure to top, with inscribed marble plaque to side. Figure carved in manner of medieval knight dressed in armour and with his dog at his feet. Tomb surrounded by high earth bank and stands at east end of graveyard of Saint John's Church of Ireland church.

• Saint Croan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1920–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church, built c.1935, having eight-bay nave, and later lower three-bay sacristy to west, street, end, flat-headed porches to north and south side elevations, gabled porch to east gable, and with attached belfry to north-west corner of nave. Pitched artificial slate roofs with overhanging eaves and barges, and having cross finials to gables of nave. Roughcast rendered walls with cmooth rendered plinth. Belfry has stepped profile with Art Deco detailing and camber-headed bell opening with bell. Square-headed stained-glass windows to sacristy, triple to west gable, and flanking main entrance doorway, all with render sills. Round-headed windows to side walls of nave and five-light segmental-headed window to east gable, all with render sills and stained-glass windows. Square-headed timber battened doors to sacristy and porches, and segmental-headed main doorway to east porch with timber panelled double-leaf door. Interior has barrel-vaulted ceiling with coffering, and round arch to sanctuary. Stations of the Cross in wood and cast metal. Grotto to west side of south porch, and graveyard to grounds bounded by rendered plinth walls with metal railings and vehicular and pedestrian gates.

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 Durrow, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Durrow · Darú

Area

1,011,739 m² (101.17 ha, 250.01 acres)

Civil parish

Drumatemple, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Ballymoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 151 households in the Ballymoe electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 26% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghymurry, Cloonee, Cloonruff, Corliskea, Dundermot (Co. Roscommon), Leabeg (Co. Roscommon)

Placenames

Durrow 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.