Doocreggaun

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doocreggaun, from 2,217 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 201,006 m² (20.1 ha, 49.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Doocreggaun 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.

• 28 Jul 2026N/a

  for a slatted cattle shed & ancillary concrete and the retention of an existing slatted shed

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661308

• 16 Sept 2025Conditional

  to demolish existing front porch, rear extension, sheds and site entrance; to refurbish derelict house to include alterations to elevations; to construct new porch and extensions to same; to include alterations to elevations of existing shed; to upgrade treatment system and percolation area; to form a new site entrance, and carry out all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561334

• 11 Sept 2025N/a

  to demolish existing front porch, rear extension, sheds and site entrance, to refurbish derelict house to include alterations to elevations, to construct new porch and extensions to same, to include alterations to elevations of existing shed, to upgrade treatment system and percolation area, to form a new site entrance, and carry out all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561298

• 5 Aug 2021Conditional

  for the following development; (a) construction of a new dwelling (b) construction of a domestic Garage/store (c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works is House 259 sqm & Garage 58.33 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211439

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 Doocreggaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA087-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). Apart from a curving td. boundary which may overlie its line from SW through W to NNE, 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

• GA087-063 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. A poorly preserved circular enclosure (D 32m) defined by a bank from SE through W to NE. A field boundary delimits the monument from NE to SE. Quarrying has disturbed the bank 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

• GA087-064 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In gently undulating marshland. A poorly preserved well, dry at the time of visit, dedicated to St Commadan. It is enclosed by a rectangular drystone-built wall (NE-SW; L 2m, Wth 1.5m) on W, N and E sides and is open to S. No steps are evident at the entrance but the floor here is paved with limestone flags. A hawthorn tree is growing at SW. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 566), stations were performed here on Sundays. 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 Doocreggaun.

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 Doocreggaun, about 1 in 20 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Doocreggaun · An Dúchreagán

Area

790,023 m² (79 ha, 195.22 acres)

Civil parish

Aughrim, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Oatfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

446 people lived in 149 households in the Oatfield electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyeighter, Ballyhoolahan, Hardwood, Kilcommadan, Kilnahown

Placenames

Doocreggaun 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.