Slievedarragh

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slievedarragh, from 169 m² to 392,825 m² (39.28 ha, 97.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

• C2.2Industrial (General industry)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  to demolish an existing calf shed, construct a calf shed & soiled water storage tank & permission for retention of an existing roofed holding area & slatted shed extension

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23252

• 24 Oct 2017Conditional

  of the original dwelling house and subsequent extensions and all associated services and site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained 337.5sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171530

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 Slievedarragh.

Recorded monuments

• GA029-159 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the summit of a hillock in gently rolling grassland. Subcircular rath (N-S 31m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank in present from W to NNW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank are extant from SE through S to NNW. The interior has been quarried out at N. An enclosure (GA029-160----) lies c. 100m to SSW. 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

• GA029-160 Enclosure
  Description

  Circa 100m SSW of a ringfort (GA029-159----). Very poorly preserved circular enclosure (D 32.5m) defined by an earthen bank at N, and from SE to S. A scarp defined the monument from S to SW. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. 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

• GA029-161 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 27.5m, N-S 25.5m) defined by a bank and external fosse. 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

• GA029-162 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 39.7m, E-W 36.1m) defined by a bank and external fosse; no visible surface trace of the latter survives from N to E. Numerous breaches appear modern. The monument has been planted with trees and reused as a landscape feature. 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 Slievedarragh.

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 Slievedarragh, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_748 (ZIP).

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

Name

Slievedarragh · Sliabh Darach

Area

468,220 m² (46.82 ha, 115.7 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Tuam Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

6,556 people lived in 2,346 households in the Tuam Rural electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Demesne, Fortyacres, Lambhill, Mountpotter, Quaybaun

Placenames

Slievedarragh 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.