Cooltymurraghy

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooltymurraghy, from 39 m² to 359,557 m² (35.96 ha, 88.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Cooltymurraghy 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 Feb 2026Conditional

  to sow native trees along river bank, mechanical raking and loosening of existing gravel substrate to improve spawning/riparian habitat for salmonids

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660234

• 31 May 2024Conditional

  to construct a four bay machinery shed and a four bay slatted cattle shed with creep area and calving area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 672 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 24146

• 9 Nov 2022Conditional

  of an existing domestic garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 29sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221163

• 5 Sept 2022N/a

  to an existing domestic garage. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 29 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 221024

• 16 Aug 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank/treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works is; House 251.1 sqm & Garage 60.4 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211482

• 7 Sept 2020Refused

  to construct a slatted shed with calf creep area and ancillary concrete and a new entrance. Gross floor space of proposed works; 319sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201258

• 15 Jan 2020Conditional

  for front porch to dwelling house and an existing domestic garage/fuel store. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 55.5 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2028

• 25 Nov 2019Conditional

  for erection of dwellinghouse, domestic garage and associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 203 sqm (House), 42 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191826

• 6 Feb 2017Conditional

  for an extension to an existing shed to include a concrete floor loose shed, slatted area and associated concrete work (Gross floor space of proposed 397sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17128

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 Cooltymurraghy.

Recorded monuments

• GA087-057 Enclosure
  Description

  On a ridge in farmland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1946) as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). All that survives is an overgrown area defined by a scarp (H c. 0.9m). According to local tradition, the area is known as a 'fort'. 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 Cooltymurraghy.

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 Cooltymurraghy, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cooltymurraghy · Cúil Tí Murchú

Area

1,738,341 m² (173.83 ha, 429.55 acres)

Civil parish

Aughrim, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Aughrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

576 people lived in 198 households in the Aughrim electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attidermot, Carrowmore, Cloghagalla Eighter, Cloonameragaun, Garrymore, Garrynamishaun or Aughrim Plots, Moat

Placenames

Cooltymurraghy 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.