Lenaloughra
Lenaloughra is a townland in the civil parish of Fohanagh, barony of Kilconnell, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Léana Luachra.
Parcel 2023597
- Area
- 55,795 m² (5.58 ha, 13.79 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Lenaloughra
Planning applications on this parcel
15 Sept 2025Conditional
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 25241
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- GA073-079 Enclosure
Description
In level grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) as a circular enclosure (D c. 60m). Apart from slight traces of a scarp-from NE through E to SSE, and the arc of a fosse from SSE through S to NNW, 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 50.2 ha
- 124 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 39,541 m² (3.95 ha, 9.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lenaloughra, from 1,327 m² to 96,246 m² (9.62 ha, 23.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lenaloughra 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Sept 2025Conditional
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 25241
9 Aug 2024Conditional
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 195.92 sqm (H), 53.94 sqm (S)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24238
9 Aug 2024Conditional
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage / store and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works : 179 sqm (H), 53.94 (S)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24239
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lenaloughra.
Recorded monuments
- GA073-079 Enclosure
Description
In level grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) as a circular enclosure (D c. 60m). Apart from slight traces of a scarp-from NE through E to SSE, and the arc of a fosse from SSE through S to NNW, 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lenaloughra.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Lenaloughra, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lenaloughra.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lenaloughra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Lenaloughra · Léana Luachra
- Area
- 501,606 m² (50.16 ha, 123.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fohanagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilconnell
- Electoral division
- Clonbrock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 606 people lived in 209 households in the Clonbrock electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonbrock Demesne, Doon Upper, Lowville
- Placenames
- Lenaloughra 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.