Slievegorm

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slievegorm, from 48 m² to 47,943 m² (4.79 ha, 11.85 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 Slievegorm 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.

• 12 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct a five bay slatted cattle shed with machinery and straw storage areas

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25239

• 29 Jul 2024Refused

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 219 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460958

• 22 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system and polishing filter, new vehicular entrance as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works is 184.11 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211327

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 Slievegorm.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Slievegorm.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Slievegorm.

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 Slievegorm, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Slievegorm · An Sliabh Gorm

Area

583,848 m² (58.38 ha, 144.27 acres)

Civil parish

Killererin, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Moyne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

703 people lived in 239 households in the Moyne electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brierfield South, Dangan Oughter, Danganbeg, Lecarrow, Polladooey

Placenames

Slievegorm 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.