Maghera More

107 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghera More, from 14 m² to 1,889,867 m² (188.99 ha, 467 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Maghera More 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.

• 9 Jul 2026Conditional

  of dwelling house, septic tank, site boundaries & all associated site works, for any changes from previously permitted pl. ref. 031795

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26172

• 16 Jun 2026Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660990

• 2 Apr 2026Conditional

  of the existing cattle shed, with effluent storage tank, all associated yard and paving works and for planning permission to construct an extension farm shed and effluent tank, for the purpose of housing cattle and sheep, together with all associated yard and site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2672

• 17 Oct 2025N/a

  for the grant of outline permission ref no. 22/60203 being sought by P.Clancy for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561525

• 18 Apr 2025Conditional

  ref no. 22/10 for a dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 112.30 sqm(H), 48.00 sqm(G)

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560464

• 12 Sept 2024Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and garage, together with all associated site works. The application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Gross floor space of proposed works: 193.00 sqm (H), 60.00 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24264

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  for a general purpose agricultural shed for the purpose of housing livestock, animal feedstuff, machinery and for keeping farm yard manure dry, together with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 430 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 24112

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  to construct: (1) new dwelling house, (2) new domestic garage, (3) installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated polishing filter bed as well as all ancillary site services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 271.7 sqm (dwelling house) and 45.79 sqm (domestic garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361549

• 10 Mar 2022Conditional

  Dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260203

• 7 Jan 2022Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2210

• 29 Oct 2021Refused

  to construct a dwelling, install a waste water treatment system and associated polishing filter and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 240sqm

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 212025

• 11 Aug 2021Unconditional

  for dwelling house, garage/shed, private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. (Gross floor space of proposed works 253.5 sqm.)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 211461

• 29 Jul 2021Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211381

• 8 Jul 2021N/a

  for a dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200sqm (House) & 40sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211224

• 1 Feb 2021Refused

  for a dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 200 sqm, Garage: 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2186

• 29 Nov 2019Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage with treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 215.10 sqm, Garage 30 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191855

• 21 Nov 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and sewage treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: (House) 175 sqm, (Garage) 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181663

• 14 Sept 2018Conditional

  to construct a four bay single slatted cattle shed with creep area. Gross floor space of proposed development, 242sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181306

• 10 Mar 2017Conditional

  to construct a domestic garage. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 60 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17326

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Oughterard District Bog NHA 002431

Recorded monuments

• GA054-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On N slope of a hill. Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (N-S 23.6m) defined by a bank of earth and stone overlain from S to W by a modern field bank. A gap at E may be modern. 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

• GA054-049 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On SE slope of a hill. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (NW-SE 26.6m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. 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

• GA054-050 Quarry
  Description

  On a hillock in boggy scrubland. A possible pit, V-shaped in section, with a short narrow band of charcoal close to its base was revealed when the hillock was being dug for gravel. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 July 2014

• GA054-076 Enclosure
  Description

  On a prominent ridge in pastureland. This oval enclosure (c. 40m E-W; 34m N-S) is defined by a much-degraded bank of earth and stone. The interior is level. A trackway curves around the enclosure from NE to E respecting the line of the bank. The monument was identified by the landowner. Compiled by: Olive Alcock based on a report provided by Dr. Paul Naessens, Galway. Date of upload: 29 May 2015

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Maghera More.

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 Maghera More, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Maghera More · An Machaire Mór

Area

3,763,328 m² (376.33 ha, 929.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Billymore or Carrowntober, Buffy, Bunnagippaun, Clooshgereen, Gortrevagh, Maghera Beg, Raha, Rushveala

Placenames

Maghera More 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.