Ardgraigue

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardgraigue, from 231 m² to 165,643 m² (16.56 ha, 40.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Ardgraigue 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.

• 10 Sept 2026N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661536

• 3 Mar 2026Conditional

  of an existing dwellinghouse, domestic garage, effluent treatment unit and all associated site works (previously granted under planning ref. no. 04/1721)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660322

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling, construction of a domestic garage/store, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25361

• 21 Apr 2022Conditional

  for the following development; (a) construction of a domestic garage and (b) all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22528

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  (a). Construction of a new dwelling (b) Construction of a domestic garage (c) Wastewater treatment system with percolation area (c) New site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 286sqm (House) + 58.33sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211222

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 238 sqm & Garage 61.4 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202042

• 17 Dec 2020Refused

  for [a] construction of a new dwelling [b] construction of a domestic Garage [c] Wastewater treatment system with percolation area [d] New site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 182 msq & 41 msq

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201946

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ardgraigue Bog SAC 002356
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ardgraigue Bog 001224

Recorded monuments

• GA107-013 Quarry
  Description

  On the W face of a gorse-covered hummock. A small hachured feature marked on the 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused gravel quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

• GA107-014 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 15 July 2015

Architectural heritage

• Shrine/oratory/grotto, 1920–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gabled limestone Marian shrine, erected c.1930. Rendered roof with decorative cast-iron cross finial and carved eaves course. Snecked walls to base with carved cornice, coursed walls to gable. Rubble walls to rear (south) face. Carved surround to round-headed niche, with rendered soffit, and carved marble life-sized statue of Virgin Mary. Situated opposite church. Dressed stone boundary walls to each side with rendered copings.

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 Ardgraigue, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Ardgraigue · An Ardghráig

Area

1,164,438 m² (116.44 ha, 287.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kilquain, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Kilquain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

303 people lived in 107 households in the Kilquain electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Killachunna, Kilquain, Lissaniska North, Lissaniska South, Stowlin, Woodfield

Placenames

Ardgraigue 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.