Lurgan

170 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lurgan, from 247 m² to 92,461 m² (9.25 ha, 22.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 61 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 Lurgan 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.

• 15 Oct 2025Conditional

  to reconstruct the existing derelict dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561502

• 29 Aug 2023Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to the site of existing house, retention of a storage shed & open carport to rear of existing house including all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23347

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 Lurgan.

Recorded monuments

• GA016-120 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland overlooking bogland to E. A very poorly preserved circular rath (D 26m) defined by a low much-disturbed earthen bank. A field bank cuts the monument at 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

• GA016-121 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating pastureland overlooking bogland to N and S. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure and classified by Neary (1914, 123, no. 153) as a 'Circular, earthen fort'. All that survives is a barely discernible rise (D c. 36m), outside of which traces of a fosse are visible. 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

• GA017-139 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 39.4m) defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. The fosse and outer bank survive only at S. A field bank cuts the monument at N and SE and no visible surface trace survives to E of it. A ringfort (GA017-140----) lies c. 150m to ENE. (Neary 1914, 123, no. 154) 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

• GA017-140 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in rolling grassland overlooking bogland to N. Known locally as 'Kelly's Fort' (Neary 1914, 123, no. 144), this poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S c. 25m, E-W 22.5m) is defined by a degraded scarp and external fosse from NE through E to S. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. Field banks cut the monument at NE and SSW. A number of hollows within the interior are the result of quarrying. 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

• GA017-141 Burial
  Description

  In boggy land sheltered to N by a steep ridge. According to local information, this is the site of famine burials. Apart from a few grassed-over stony mounds, 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 Lurgan.

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 Lurgan, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lurgan · An Lorgain

Area

2,266,730 m² (226.67 ha, 560.12 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Doonbally, the unit of the census

Census 2022

626 people lived in 210 households in the Doonbally electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowntootagh, Cloonagh, Cloonaghgarve, Graigueachullaire, Kilnaslieve, Knockaunnagat, Knockballyvishteal, Rosmearan

Placenames

Lurgan 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.