Tiraloughan

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tiraloughan, from 1,689 m² to 39,578 m² (3.96 ha, 9.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Tiraloughan 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.

• 8 Sept 2025Conditional

  for a single storey extension to the early 20th c. school building, a separate free standing extension comprising 2 x mainstream classrooms, associated ancillary spaces, external ramps, steps, external heat pumps, gas tanks, upgrade to existing wastewater treatment, miscellaneous internal renovation, and all associated site works to the front, rear and side of the Scoil Aine Naofa. These works are separate to, but in proximity to the original 19th C. Lough Cutra School (a protected structure RPS No. 482)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561275

• 23 Apr 2024Conditional

  for removal of the existing pitched roof on the early 20th c. school building, construct a new first floor comprising 2 x mainstream classrooms, stairwell, and associated ancillary spaces, external airsource heatpumps, misc internal renovation, 1x ground floor special education room, entrance canopies, upgrade to existing wastewater treatment and all associated site works to the front, rear and side of the Scoil Aine Naofa. These works are in proximity to the original 19th C. Lough Cutra School (a protected structure RPS No. 482). Gross floor space of proposed works: 268.90 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460441

• 8 Feb 2024Conditional

  to demolish existing kitchen and outbuilding. Construct a new garage and a 2 storey adjoining extension to the existing building. Ground floor of the extension will comprise of a kitchen, utility, and WC. First floor of the extension will comprise of an ensuite bedroom. A Natura Impact Statement is submitted with this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 62.4 sqm (garage) & 57 sqm (extension). Gross floor space of any demolition: 21.8 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460124

• 16 Nov 2023Conditional

  and completion of extension and elevation alterations to existing dwelling house. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 37.56 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361372

• 21 Apr 2023Conditional

  for the construction of an enclosed all weather playing pitch, lighting & all ancillary works to the rear of the existing school

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360407

• 5 Oct 2022Refused

  for an extension to an existing dwelling. The proposed project will involve demolishing the existing kitchen and outbuilding and replacing it with a new two-storey extension at the rear of the property. The ground floor of the extension will comprise of a kitchen, utility and WC and the first floor of the extension will comprise of an en-suite bedroom. Gross floor space of proposed works: 161.37 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 97.21 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 21.79 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221091

• 17 Feb 2021N/a

  for the construction of an enclosed all weather playing pitch, lighting and all ancillary site works to the rear of the existing school. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1400 msq

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21190

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 Tiraloughan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tiraloughan.

Architectural heritage

• School, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey limestone school and schoolmaster's house with attic storey, built c.1860. Comprises double-height single-storey block to south end, with central lean-to porch with gablet to south elevation, and three-bay single-storey with attic block perpendicular to this, with gabled projecting bay to front (east) elevation abutting single-storey block, with lean-to entrance porch to re-entrant corner to front elevation, and with recent single-storey extensions to rear. Pitched slate roofs with cut-stone copings, some decorative curved slate banding courses, and some cast-iron ridge crestings. Some cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets. Tooled stone ashlar chimneystacks with chamfered corners. Tooled limestone ashlar openwork bellcote to north gable. Tooled corbels to corners. Tooled snecked stone walls with ashlar plinth course with vents. Roughcast rendered to rear. Buttresses to porch to south elevation. Marble plaque to front elevation. Square-headed openings with tooled stone sills, some infilled, some with replacement timber windows. Triple-light window to gable-fronted projections having tooled surrounds and timber windows. Diamond-shaped window opening with dressed surrounds and timber louvres. Reuleaux triangular window to one gable-fronted projection, with timber framed top-hung window. Square-headed window openings to rear with paired one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Tudor arch door opening with timber battened door. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate to south end of front of site. Rendered boundary walls to garden to front of site.

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 Tiraloughan, about 1 in 10 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 water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tiraloughan · Tír an Locháin

Area

488,559 m² (48.86 ha, 120.73 acres)

Civil parish

Beagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Ardamullivan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

722 people lived in 245 households in the Ardamullivan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardamullivan, Ballynakill, Cregmahon, Derrycallan North, Lough Cutra Demesne, Pollagh

Placenames

Tiraloughan 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.