Lurgan

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lurgan, from 30 m² to 124,865 m² (12.49 ha, 30.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Lurgan 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.

• 17 Dec 2024Conditional

  for the 1) refurbishment and extension of existing traditional storey & a half dwelling house. 2) Conversion of existing adjoining barn into useable living space with link to existing house. 3) Construct a new domestic garage and upgrade existing septic tank with new wastewater system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 209.34 sqm(extension) & 38.50 sqm(garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461738

• 5 Apr 2024Conditional

  for: (a) the conversion of the attic space of the dwelling house to habitable accommodation, (b) the construction of a carport to the rear of the dwelling, (c) construction of a garden shed, (d) construction of a polytunnel, (e) all associated site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 35 sqm (polytunnel), 14 sqm (garden shed), 35.68 sqm (carport) & 80.89 sqm (attic)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460373

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 Lurgan.

Recorded monuments

• GA105-029006 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA105-029007 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA105-029008 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Some 20m to the E of a church (GA105-028001-). This children's burial ground consists of a rectangular area (L 32m; Wth 20m) which is defined by an earthen bank at N and E, by a scarp at S and by the townland boundary wall at W. Within the interior numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. Two holy wells (GA105-029003- and GA105-029004-) lie c. 10m to the W. (McCaffrey 1952, 259, no. 19) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 September 2019

• GA105-029009 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA105-029010 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  Some 90m to the N of a church (GA105-029001-). Described by Rynne (1975, 102-3) as a sacred ash tree, which was known locally as ‘The Blessed Tree’. It was ‘killed in September 1961 by Hurricane Debbie’. Rynne (ibid.) also noted a young ash growing in the huge hollow trunk; it was 'surrounded by a ring of stones within which, now partly under the dead trunk, is a double cavity bullaun (GA105-029009-)'. The tree was venerated up to c. 1950. Not visited by the Survey. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 January 2020

• GA105-156 Country house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lurgan, 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.

• Lurgan, Loughrea5 sales

Name

Lurgan · An Lorgain

Area

531,115 m² (53.11 ha, 131.24 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconickny, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilconickny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

678 people lived in 217 households in the Kilconickny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boherduff, Carrowclogh, Glenatallan, Gortawullaun, Killaspugmoylan, Raheen Eighter

Placenames

Lurgan 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.