Lurgan

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lurgan, from 317 m² to 244,195 m² (24.42 ha, 60.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.

• 4 Sept 2026N/a

  for new dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system previously granted under 24/61490

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661502

• 31 Jul 2026N/a

  to construct a dwelling house and a garage with treatment plant and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661337

• 20 Jan 2026Conditional

  of existing domestic garage, as built, roadside site boundary wall together with all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2660055

• 11 Apr 2025Conditional

  to construct an extension to dwelling house together with all ancillary siteworks & services. Gross floor area of works: 66.00 sqm(extension)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560414

• 5 Nov 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and a garage with treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 223.30 sqm (H), 52.25 (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461490

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

• GA060-174 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a rise in grassland. Circular rath (D 30m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter survives from S to WNW. Gap at E may be original. A CBG (GA060-174001-) abuts the monument at S. 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

• GA060-174001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Immediately outside S sector of a ringfort (GA060-174----). It consists of a small triangular area (NNW-SSE 17m, WSW-ENE 6m) defined along NW side by a low bank and elsewhere by a scarp up to 1.8m in height. A number of small undressed grave-markers are visible in the interior, particularly in N sector where they are aligned in rows indicating graves oriented NE-SW. According to local tradition, the last burial took place c. 1940. 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

• GA060-175 Enclosure
  Description

  On level ground. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 20m). Apart from a circular hollow, 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 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

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.

• Lurgan, Caltra5 sales

Name

Lurgan · An Lorgain

Area

2,021,837 m² (202.18 ha, 499.61 acres)

Civil parish

Killosolan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Clonbrock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

606 people lived in 209 households in the Clonbrock electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonbrock, Clonbrock Demesne, Cloonpee, Creggaunnagroagh, Eskerballycahill, Lattoon, Lislea, Sruhaunfusta

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.