Barragarraun

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barragarraun, from 1,275 m² to 123,472 m² (12.35 ha, 30.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Barragarraun 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Barragarraun 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Barragarraun.

Recorded monuments

• GA105-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On E-facing slope of a low hill. A subcircular rath (c. 50m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW), in fair condition, defined by an earthen bank. A gap (Wth 1.5m) is visible at N. The interior, which is raised well above the surrounding field level, is densely overgrown. A field wall cuts through the monument at NW and SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

• GA105-025 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pastureland. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 32m) defined by a collapsed stony bank, which is overlain by a later field wall, from S to W. From W through N to E only the outline of the monument is visible. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 February 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barragarraun.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Barragarraun.

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

Name

Barragarraun · Barr an Gharráin

Area

778,164 m² (77.82 ha, 192.29 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenadeema, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Aille, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aille electoral division: 429 people in 146 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aille, Ballycoony, Caheratrim, Cahercrea East, Glenaclara East, Glenaclara West

Placenames

Barragarraun 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.