Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Athenry

Planning applications inside the Athenry, Co. Galway settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.

Applications
239
County
Galway

What the data shows

The planning register for Athenry contains a total of 239 applications, with recent lodgements showing 18 applications in 2023, 21 in 2024, and 17 in 2025. Since 2016, the area has a grant rate of 86% out of 211 applications that were granted, refused, or part-granted, which consists of 182 granted, 29 refused, and 0 part-granted applications. The most common development types are housing estates at 16%, followed by new dwellings, extensions, and changes of use, which each account for 14% of the applications. Recent decisions in the area include grants for constructing a dwellinghouse with a garage, a dwelling house with a domestic garage, a two-storey side extension, a canopy area, and a change of use for a commercial unit, while an application for a one-bed apartment, garden shed, and raised boundary wall was refused.

An automated reading of the figures on this page. Every statement reflects the register data shown above; it is not advice or a prediction.

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

86%

of 211 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
182
Refused
29
No decision recorded
28

Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.

What’s being built

Housing estate
16%
New dwelling
14%
Extension
14%
Change of use
14%
Retention
14%
Commercial
9%

Grant rate by category

How each kind of application has been decided in Athenry, 2017–2026.

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Housing estate65%3178%
New dwelling90%3082%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded. Categories with fewer than 30 decided applications are not listed, because a rate over a handful of applications would not mean anything.

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Athenry

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Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Settlement boundary: CSO Census 2022 urban areas (Tailte Éireann). Always confirm against the relevant authority’s official register.