Menlough Eighter

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Menlough Eighter, from 299 m² to 132,755 m² (13.28 ha, 32.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Menlough Eighter 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.

• 21 Jan 2026Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 268

• 28 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct a three bay double slatted cattle shed

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25331

• 29 Aug 2025Conditional

  to construct a domestic garage incorporating a section for a home office & all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561213

• 24 Jun 2025Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store including all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 198.82 sqm (H), 53.94 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25146

• 13 Jan 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage and on-site sewage treatment system, along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: H: 228 sqm, G: 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2117

• 4 Feb 2020Conditional

  of sheep shed and permission to construct extension to same sheep shed to include effluent tank and permission to construct a grain storage shed to include concrete apron and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Extension = 167.22 sqm. Grain store = 367.35 sqm. Apron = 291.48 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Sheep shed = 183.83 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 20120

• 31 Jan 2019Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed to include concrete apron and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Slatted shed - 196.42 sqm, Concrete apron - 387.38 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19133

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  to construct two agricultural sheds and retain the existing stoned out yard and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 851 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181846

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 Menlough Eighter.

Recorded monuments

• GA059-051 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a W-facing slope, in grassland, c. 500m N of the village of Menlough and c. 80m E of a road which forms the td. boundary. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1927) as a small unenclosed circular area (D c. 15m). All that is visible is a slight rise in ground level. No grave-markers are evident. According to local information, the CBG has not been used in the last 85 years. 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

• GA059-052 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On NW-facing slope of a hill. Circular rath (D 33.5m), in fair condition, defined by a bank overlain by a field wall from E through S to SSW. Within the interior is a souterrain (GA059-052001-) 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

• GA059-052001 Souterrain
  Description

  In W half of a ringfort (GA059-052----). This inaccessible souterrain is indicated by an exposed roof lintel in an oval depression (L 3.3m) running E-W. 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 Menlough Eighter.

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 Menlough Eighter, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Menlough Eighter · Mionlach Íochtair

Area

1,923,431 m² (192.34 ha, 475.29 acres)

Civil parish

Killoscobe, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Derryglassaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

976 people lived in 332 households in the Derryglassaun electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghnagrosheen, Cloonmweelaun, Fairhill, Killoscobe, Lismoes, Menlough Oughter

Placenames

Menlough Eighter 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.