Barranny
Barranny is a townland in the civil parish of Annaghdown, barony of Clare, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Barr Eanaigh.
- Area
- 473.9 ha
- 1,171 acres
- Land parcels
- 214
- registered freehold, median 7,077 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
214 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barranny, from 29 m² to 404,910 m² (40.49 ha, 100.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 144 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Barranny 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
11 Jul 2025Conditional
for a dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. A Natura Impact Statement for the proposed development will be submitted with this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 234.90 sqm(H), 48.00 sqm(G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560932
22 Mar 2024Refused
for the construction of a dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 234.90 sqm (house) & 48 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460316
10 Oct 2022Refused
for the construction of a dwelling house, with an epa compliant wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated site services. gross floor area of proposed works: 199 sqm (dwelling house). Single Building with max ridge height 7.89 m
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261009
13 Sept 2022Conditional
sought to retain the existing dwelling house (128 sqm), domestic garage/fuel store (33 sqm ), garden storage shed (10 sqm), septic tank and percolation area, all on revised site boundaries from previously granted permission reference number 27591.Gross floor space of work to be retained 171.00sqm
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260927
28 Jun 2022Refused
for the construction of a dwelling house, with an epa compliant wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated site services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 199 sqm (dwelling house).
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260658
16 Sept 2021Conditional
to build new extension to side of existing dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 55.6 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211696
10 Nov 2017Conditional
to construct an extension to their dwelling house, to construct a domestic garage and all associated site works and services and to retain minor elevation alterations to dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works dwelling Extension 30sqm, Garage 35.7sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171623
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
- Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barranny.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barranny.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Barranny, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barranny.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Barranny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Barranny · Barr Eanaigh
- Area
- 4,738,779 m² (473.88 ha, 1,170.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Annaghdown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Annaghdown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,978 people lived in 678 households in the Annaghdown electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curraghmore, Lisheenanoran, Muckrush, Rinnaharney, Shankill, Woodpark
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Barranny 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.