Corgerry Oughter

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corgerry Oughter, from 159 m² to 80,521 m² (8.05 ha, 19.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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 Corgerry 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.

• 15 May 2026Conditional

  of dwelling house & domestic garage/fuel storage shed on revised site boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660766

• 29 Apr 2026Conditional

  to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660652

• 12 Jun 2023Conditional

  for revisions to the previously granted dwellinghouse (Pl. Ref. 21/2171), to include: a) single storey porch to front elevation, b) addition & revision of windows on front, rear & side elevations, & c) reduction in floor area from 256m2 to 252m2

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23237

• 22 Nov 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house (291 sqm), garage, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 291 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212171

• 20 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a Dwellinghouse Domestic Garage & proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 249.97 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21864

• 26 Apr 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house & garage, treatment system and percolation area. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 245 sqm., (house) 33 sqm., (garage)).

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17582

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 Corgerry Oughter.

Recorded monuments

• GA059-022 Enclosure
  Description

  On a SW-facing hillslope. A poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (N-S 62m, E-W 59m) defined by a grassed-over collapsed stony bank. Boulders visible intermittently may be the remains of wall-facing. 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

• GA059-023 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On W bank of a small stream. The spot is known locally as a holy well, and a pilgrimage was held on Lady's Day (15th August) in the past. No visible surface trace survives, the stream has been dredged and this may have resulted in the destruction of the well. A church (GA059-045----) and graveyard lie 30m to NW. 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

• GA059-024 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On NW-facing slope of a hill. Well-preserved circular rath (D 37.4m) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter survives only from N to NE. A field wall overlies the bank from N to ENE. 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 Corgerry 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

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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Corgerry Oughter · Corrdhoire Uachtair

Area

1,671,724 m² (167.17 ha, 413.09 acres)

Civil parish

Killoscobe, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Mounthazel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

544 people lived in 194 households in the Mounthazel electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynasooragh Eighter, Ballynasooragh Oughter, Cloverfield, Eskerroe, Fairhill, Graigue, Kilfelligy, Killoscobe, Rahins

Placenames

Corgerry 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.