Dangan Oughter

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dangan Oughter, from 87 m² to 108,821 m² (10.88 ha, 26.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Dangan 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.

• 13 May 2026Refused

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26104

• 22 Oct 2025Refused

  to construct a machinery shed, and to upgrade the entrance with the public road

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561550

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all asscoiated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (H) 191.96 sqm & (S) 53.94 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25113

• 7 Mar 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 228 sqm (dwelling) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460247

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 Dangan Oughter.

Recorded monuments

• GA044-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in grassland. Subcircular rath (N-S 44m, E-W 42m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and intervening fosse. Traces of an outer bank are visible at N and SW. A gap at E could be original. 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 Dangan 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

At the centre of the townland of Dangan Oughter, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dangan 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 Dangan Oughter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Dangan Oughter · An Daingean Uachtair

Area

1,430,428 m² (143.04 ha, 353.47 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

Dangan Eighter, Danganbeg, Derreen, Lissavally, Moher, Polladooey, Slievegorm, Sunhill

Placenames

Dangan 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.