Balrobuck Beg

279 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balrobuck Beg, from 43 m² to 119,659 m² (11.97 ha, 29.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Balrobuck Beg 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.

• 16 Jul 2025Conditional

  of complete restoration of a previously derelict cottage dwelling house, including reconstruction works and addition of a rear extension, as well as minor alterations to existing dwelling & permission for upgrade of the existing on-site domestic wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 116.50 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560960

• 6 May 2025Conditional

  of existing septic tank, pump/sump and raised percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 185.8 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560544

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  of a rear/side extension and alterations to the existing dwelling previously granted under pl ref 994581 and for a garage/shed together with associated services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 76.20 sqm(house) & 53.60 sqm(garage)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461757

• 2 Aug 2024Conditional

  of additional hard stand area with revised site boundaries to an existing concrete manufacturing works together with associated services previously granted under reference number 99/4562.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2460988

• 25 Jul 2024N/a

  of a rear/side extension and alterations to the existing dwelling together with associated services previously granted under planning reference 994581. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 76.20 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460933

• 19 Jul 2024N/a

  of additional hard stand area with revised site boundaries to an existing concrete manufacturing works together with associated services previously granted under reference number 99/4562

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2460902

• 2 Apr 2024Conditional

  of the existing location of a vehicular entrance to their property to that previously granted under planning reference 99/4947

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460362

• 9 Jun 2023Refused

  of: (1) the location of existing vehicular entrance to the property; (2) the location of the existing domestic garage associated with the property; (3) the location of the existing septic tank & percolation area serving the property. Previous Pl. Ref. No.’s (99/4947 & 19/1374) refers

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2360629

• 14 Mar 2023N/a

  for the development consisting of: the construction of a new private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area along with all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 175 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360241

• 24 Nov 2022Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, garage, private treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling: 158sqm, Garage: 60sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221191

• 4 Oct 2022Refused

  for a development consisting of the construction of a new private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area along with all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 175 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221090

• 22 Jul 2022Refused

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling house with proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 160.9 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22904

• 5 May 2022N/a

  for the construction of a dwelling house with proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 160.9 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22591

• 16 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 264.4 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212122

• 22 Sept 2021N/a

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling house with proprietary waste water treatment system and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 160.9 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211745

• 29 Apr 2021Conditional

  to retain and complete dwellinghouse, to construct a domestic garage and to install a proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: house =213 msq, garage=60msq

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21702

• 3 Dec 2020Conditional

  of minor alterations to existing dwelling house and out-buildings, on revised site boundaries and (2) Permission to install a new on-site sewage treatment system. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 192 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201835

• 27 Aug 2020Conditional

  for retention permission of an extension to a slatted shed, part construction of a water storage tank and permission to complete the construction of the water storage tank along with associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 199.91 msq.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 201197

• 29 May 2020Conditional

  to construct Dwelling house, Garage, Effluent Treatment Tank and Percolation Area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 205.50 sqm, Garage 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20664

• 30 Jan 2020N/a

  of an extension to a slatted shed, part construction of a water storage tank and permission to complete the construction of the water storage tank along with associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 199.91 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2098

• 3 Sept 2019Conditional

  to construct extension to existing dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works: 22.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191374

• 25 Jul 2019N/a

  for the importing inurt fill to improve levels for use as agricultural land

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191144

• 29 Nov 2018N/a

  of an extension to a slatted shed, part construction of a water storage tank and permission to complete the construction of the water storage tank along with associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 199.91 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 181704

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 Balrobuck Beg.

Recorded monuments

• GA056-019 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope. Roughly circular ringfort (D c. 40m) defined by a degraded bank of earth and stone which is visible only at NE. Elsewhere the monument is obscured by dense blackthorn growth. 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

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having single-storey twentieth-century lean-to to rear. Pitched thatched roof with decorative knotting to raised ridge, wire mesh to eaves, and rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills. Square-headed glazed timber battened half-door to entrance. House set back from road with garden and random rubble drystone boundary wall to rear. Single-storey outbuilding to south-east having pitched corrugated-iron roof, and yard to front.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay, single–storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with dormer attic, having single-storey late twentieth-century extension to north-east gable. Pitched thatched roof with decorative knotting to ridge, low rendered chimneystack and rendered stone copings. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with relacement uPVC windows and doors, and painted stone sills. Single-storey outbuilding to south-west with monopitch corrugated-iron roof and lime-rendered random rubble walls. Set in field with laneway flanked by field stone wall and having yard to front.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with dormer attic, and having single-bay two-storey addition to west end, and single-storey late twentieth-century extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with raised ridge, wire mesh to eaves, and painted stone copings and scrolled bargeboards to gable end of older part. Lime-rendered random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with painted stone heads and sills, external decorative timber shutters, and replacement timber windows. Square-headed glazed timber sheeted door. Set parallel to road with low rendered boundary wall with square piers and timber gate to front at roadside. Single-storey outbuilding to rear having monopitch corrugated-iron roof and lime-rendered random rubble stone walls, with garden also to rear.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with dormer attic, and incorporating outbuilding to south end under same roof. Slightly lower return addition to rear. Pitched thatched roof with decorative knotting to ridge, wire mesh to eaves, rendered chimneystack, dormer window with slate roof to rear, and rendered stone copings. Rendered walls with render plinth, parallel quoins to front of house part, and eaves course. Rear addition has pitched slate roof not tied into thatched roof, and rendered walls. Square-headed openings with decorative render surrounds having stone insets, replacement timber windows and replacement uPVC door. Set parallel to road with garden to front enclosed by low rendered wall, rendered piers and metal garden gate. Single-storey outbuildings to north-west and south-west, former having pitched corrugated-iron roof, and latter having slate roof.

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

About 1 in 5 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 Balrobuck Beg.

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.

No address of the register names Balrobuck Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Balrobuck Beg · Baile Robac Beag

Area

1,367,710 m² (136.77 ha, 337.97 acres)

Civil parish

Annaghdown, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Annaghdown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Annaghdown electoral division: 1,451 people in 486 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynew, Balrobuck More, Bunatober, Glenrevagh, Grange, Kilroe

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Balrobuck Beg 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.