Menlough Commons

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Menlough Commons, from 74 m² to 89,170 m² (8.92 ha, 22.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Commons 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.

• 17 Jul 2026Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with treatment plant and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661218

• 17 Jul 2026Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with treatment plant and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661219

• 9 Dec 2024Conditional

  for change of use of existing convenience shop to include part off-licence use, along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 16.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461678

• 23 Dec 2021Conditional

  (i) retention of three single storey domestic sheds (ii) retention of the built funeral home and change of use of same to residential ancillary to the uses of the existing dwelling and proposed changes to the internal layout of same and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212536

• 13 Aug 2021Conditional

  to reconstruct and extend dwelling house to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works is; Extension 22.94 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211472

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  to extend and renovate their existing dwelling house, create a new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 120.24 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21657

• 8 Dec 2017Conditional

  for the construction of an agricultural entrance to farmland.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171766

• 12 Jun 2017Conditional

  for development that will consist of (i) demolition of existing substandard dwellinghouse (76sqm) and shed (65sqm), (ii) the construction of a single storey dwellinghouse (254sqm), domestic garage (60sqm), wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17849

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 Commons.

Recorded monuments

• GA059-048 Church
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA059-049 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870, having canted end bays to ground floor. Hipped natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to gables, stone copings, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled and lined render and raised parallel quoins to front elevation first floor, moulded limestone string course at sill level, ashlar struck render to ground floor with rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, moulded limestone surrounds to first floor windows, tooled limestone sills to ground floor. Smooth render to canted bays with paired timber sliding sash windows to front, tooled limestone sills, string course and parapet topped with moulded cornice. Painted timber four-panel entrance door flanked by timber sidelights with transom light above, and having moulded limestone surround with flat projecting keystone. Set back from road behind decorative wrought-iron railings set on rendered plinth, square rendered gate piers with decorative wrought-iron gates.

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 Commons, 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 Commons.

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

Name

Menlough Commons · Mionlach

Area

900,305 m² (90.03 ha, 222.47 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

Cloonmweelaun, Cross Eighter, Lismoes, Menlough Oughter, Moneen, Pollnabrone

Placenames

Menlough Commons 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.