Attimonbeg
Townland in the civil parish of Killimordaly, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Áth Tíomáin Beag
- Area
- 105.2 ha
- 260 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 9,074 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Attimonbeg, from 386 m² to 156,163 m² (15.62 ha, 38.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Attimonbeg 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Jun 2026Conditional
for the change of use of an existing national school (Attymon N.S.) which was previously approved under Planning Ref No. 07/4256 to a fulltime childcare facility/service
Permission · Galway County Council, 26130
29 Sept 2025Refused
for a period of 10 years for a development consisting of the provision of the following: i. 8 no. wind turbines with an overall turbine total tip height range of 178m - 185m, a rotor diameter range of 149m - 163m, and turbine hub height range of 101m - 104m, and associated foundations and hard standing areas; ii. A permanent 38kV substation compound (including a control building (157.6 sqm) with welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and apparatus, security fencing, underground cabling, storage containers, wastewater holding tank, site drainage and all ancillary works); iii. Permanent underground electrical (38kV) and communications cabling to the existing Cashla Substation in the townland of Barrettspark (including joint bays, communication and earth sheath link chambers and all ancillary works along the route). This cabling route is primarily located within the public road corridor which includes protected structures (RPS No. 3747, RPS No. 146). iv. Underground electrical (20/33kV) and communications cabling connecting the wind turbines and meteorological mast to the proposed on-site substation; v. 2 no. temporary construction compounds (including site offices and welfare facilities (with a combined floor area of 202.5 sqm); vi. A meteorological mast with a height of 30 meters, security fencing and associated foundation and hard-standing area; vii. Upgrade of existing site tracks/ roads and provision of new site access roads, junctions and hardstand areas, including a new site entrance off the L3115; viii. Peat and Spoil Management Areas; ix. Tree felling and vegetation removal; x. Biodiversity enhancement measures (including peatland habitat enhancement, Marsh Fritillary habitat enhancement and management, establishment of hedgerows and native woodland planting); xi. Site drainage; xii. Operational stage site signage; and xiii. All ancillary works and apparatus. A thirty five-year operational life from the date of full commissioning of the wind turbines and subsequent decommissioning is being sought. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and accompany this application. An Opinion on Unconfirmed Details issued by Galway County Council (Opinion Ref. No. 25/MP/2) on 29th May 2025 accompanies this application. The details unconfirmed in this application are the turbine total tip height, rotor diameter and hub height. The range of parameters un
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561412
1 Sept 2022N/a
to construct a Dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor area of proposed works: 214.2sqm (dwelling house) and 40sqm (domestic garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260881
1 Sept 2022N/a
to construct a Dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor area of proposed works: 149.4sqm (dwelling house) and 40sqm (domestic garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260882
23 May 2019Conditional
to construct a prefabricated classroom for its use as a Montessori / Preschool adjacent to the existing national school building including all associated work and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 35.79 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 19791
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Attimonbeg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Attimonbeg.
Architectural heritage
- Attymon House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with flat-roofed entrance porch to front elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and with cut stone cornice to porch. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows having cut-stone sills and louvred external shutters. Elliptical-headed door opening with timber panelled door with cobweb fanlight, sidelights and timber panelled door. Double-leaf cast-iron gates to road with carved stone piers with rubble stone quadrant walls, rubble stone terminating piers, and rubble stone boundary walls.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Attimonbeg.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Attimonbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Attimonbeg · Áth Tíomáin Beag
- Area
- 1,052,023 m² (105.2 ha, 259.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killimordaly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tiaquin
- Electoral division
- Cloonkeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloonkeen electoral division: 485 people in 157 households; 91% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Attimonmore North, Attimonmore South, Ballynanulty, Cappanasruhaun, Clogh, Gortnalone South
- Placenames
- Attimonbeg 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.