Ervallagh Oughter

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ervallagh Oughter, from 873 m² to 189,173 m² (18.92 ha, 46.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Ervallagh Oughter 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.

• 18 Jun 2026Conditional

  for a self contained annexe/Garden Apartment and other garden sheds

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661012

• 18 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.76 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21841

• 12 Apr 2021Refused

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 174.33 sqm, Garage/fuel shed: 53.94 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21576

• 25 Jan 2021Conditional

  to reconstruct and extend private dwelling house to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Extensions = 39.04 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2158

• 22 Jan 2019Conditional

  to construct 2 extensions to the rear of existing child care facility, extending a playroom and providing office facilities, (total floor area = 39sqm) and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 39 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1974

• 18 May 2017Conditional

  of existing childcare facilities, permission for extra parking/drop off area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 139.20sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 17698

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 Ervallagh Oughter.

Recorded monuments

• GA074-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In flat pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). 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

• GA074-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In flat grassland close to E boundary of td. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval enclosure (c. 40m by c. 35m). Apart from a very slight curving depression which may indicate the line of the fosse, no other 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

• GA074-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In flat grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). All that survives is a band of vegetation enclosing a subcircular area (N-S 36m, E-W 33m). 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 Ervallagh Oughter.

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 Ervallagh Oughter, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1241 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ervallagh Oughter · Oirbhealach Uachtarach

Area

2,122,515 m² (212.25 ha, 524.48 acres)

Civil parish

Ahascragh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Ahascragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

619 people lived in 220 households in the Ahascragh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Ballyglass (Mahon), Castlegar West, Cool, Ervallagh Eighter, Killuppaun (Clonbrock), Killuppaun (Mahon), Killure Beg, Sonnagh

Placenames

Ervallagh Oughter 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.