Oran More

625 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oran More, from 1 m² to 122,028 m² (12.2 ha, 30.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 63 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.

• R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 526 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 38 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Commercial/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential Infill (New/proposed residential)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Residential (Phase 2) (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre Infill (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Oran More in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

• GA095-110 Castle - tower 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.

• GA095-111 Church
  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.

• GA095-111001 Graveyard
  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.

• GA095-111002 Church
  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.

• GA095-111003 Graveyard
  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.

• GA095-111004 Graveslab
  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.

• GA095-111005 Graveslab
  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.

• GA095-112 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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.

• GA095-113 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as an irregularly shaped enclosure. On inspection in December 1982 this was an area of scrubland and rock outcrop. The poorly preserved roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) was defined by a low wall of large set limestone blocks, double-faced at S (Wth 1.4m; max. H 0.8m). A partially collapsed modern field wall overlay the enclosing element. Current OSi aerial imagery (Google Earth 2018) indicates that area of the site is now a green in a fairly recently constructed housing estate and it appears that the enclosure has been levelled. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 June 2019

• GA095-114 Church
  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

• Castle Pier, quay/wharf, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Rectangular-plan quay wall, built c.1780. Snecked squared limestone walls to lower level, coursed squared limestone walls to upper level, with batter. Integral steps to north elevation. Cast-iron mooring rings set in square recesses to north elevation. Boat slip to north with battered rubble stone walls and cut-stone copings giving access to water.

• MacDonagh, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached seven-bay thatched public house, built c.1800, formerly two number three-bay single-storey houses, that to south having dormer attic. Pitched thatched roof having raised decoratively scolloped ridge and low painted rendered chimneystacks. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, dormers having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and ground floor having enlarged openings with replacement timber windows. Square-headed door openings to each part, having recent timber-panelled door and half-glazed timber panelled door. Timber nameplate with painted lettering over south part. Building fronts onto street.

• Árd na Mara, convent/nunnery, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey convent, built c.1885, having half-hexagonal central breakfront to front (east) elevation, multiple-bay south elevation, and recent two-storey extensions to north and to rear, now in use as sheltered housing. Hipped slate roof having clay ridge tiles and smooth rendered chimneystacks. Decoratively carved timber bargeboards to entrance bay, with carved finial. Corbelled moulded red brick eaves course. Painted rendered walls having rendered quoins and cut limestone and rusticated plinth. Painted rendered chamfered window openings throughout, Tudor arch to ground floor and square-headed to first floor, with limestone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, ground floor openings having paned overlights. Pointed arch double-light window opening with oculus above to first floor of entrance bay, having cut limestone tracery and render hood-moulding, flanked by square-headed window openings with timber windows, all windows having quatrefoils to lower parts. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to canted sides of ground floor of entrance bay. Pointed arch door opening having rendered reveal and hood-moulding with timber panelled double-leaf doors and overlight, with cut limestone steps. Property set within its own grounds.

• Oranmore Library, church/chapel, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, dated 1803, with gabled bellcote added c.1885. Now in use as library. Two-bay nave elevation, and full-height single-bay transepts, full-height chancel to east, and bowed bays to re-entrant corners. Lean-to additions to north and south elevations of nave, and to east elevations of transepts. Pitched slate roofs, with pyramidal roof over crossing, carved limestone cross finials to transepts, and carved limestone bellcote with bell and cross finial to entrance gable. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with smooth render quoins, having rendered buttresses flanking main entrance, and carved limestone date-stone over doorway. Pointed arch window openings to nave and west elevations of transepts, having smooth render block-and-start surrounds and stone sills, with recent timber windows, that to north transept lowered to accommodate door opening with recent timber battened double-leaf doors, top half of timber Y-tracery window remaining. Pointed arch window openings with cut limestone tracery, chamfered limestone surrounds, cut limestone sloping sills, and stained-glass windows to entrance gable. Pointed arch three-light east window with cut limestone surround and sloped sill, having carved limestone tracery, trefoil-headed lights with five-pointed star over, and having stained-glass. Quatrefoil window to north elevation of north transept, having recent timber window. Paired lancet window openings to gable of south transept, with cut limestone tracery, chamfered limestone surrounds, cut limestone sloping sills, and stained-glass. Pointed arch door opening to main entrance, having cut and carved limestone surround and double-leaf timber battened doors with cut limestone threshold. Pointed arch door openings to transepts with cut limestone hood-mouldings and chamfered limestone surrounds, partly blocked and with recent timber window to north transept, and having timber battened door to south transept. Square-headed door openings to extensions having timber doors. Church interior renovated 1998 to incorporate library. Painted smooth rendered walls to interior with open truss roof and decorative stained-glass windows to former chancel and south transept windows. Timber galleries. Church is set within graveyard with numerous gravestones. Cast-iron double-leaf gates flanked by matching pedestrian gates, with square-profile cut limestone piers, and cast-iron railings on rendered plinth walls.

• Joseph Howley Monument, monument, 1945–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding carved limestone statue, dated 1947, commemorating Joseph Howley, set on stepped square-plan limestone plinth. Inscriptions to east face of plinth. Set behind rubble stone plinth wall with recent railings.

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 Oran More, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_571 (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 Oran More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Oran More · Órán Mór

Area

1,286,235 m² (128.62 ha, 317.84 acres)

Civil parish

Oranmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Oranmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,721 people lived in 1,706 households in the Oranmore electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel, Frenchfort, Garraun South, Innplot, Moneyduff, Moneymore West, Oran Beg, Oranhill, Rinn, Rinville West, Rocklands

Placenames

Oran More 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.