Barravilla

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barravilla, from 134 m² to 91,430 m² (9.14 ha, 22.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Barravilla 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.

• 9 Oct 2025Conditional

  for the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor between structure no. 81 and 161; the replacement of angle masts in-situ at 3no. locations, with similar structures; the painting of a tower at 1no. location; the replacement of polesets at 54no. locations, with similar structures. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16 m to 23 m along the circuit. The majority of the height increases will be between 0.1 m and 2.0 m (at 40no. structures), with 13no. structure replacements resulting in no change in height. Structure no. 109 will increase in height by 3.0 m; the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at all structures from structure no. 81 to 160; the replacement of stay wire / anchors and associated fittings at 3no. locations; the replacement of crossarms at 59no. locations; the installation of fibre wrap on phase conductor between structure no. 1 and structure no. 161; all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including the removal and reinstatement of 220m of hedgerow / field boundary (estimated using Táilte Éireann data), vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts / piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing; and other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e., guard poles) and a temporary watercourse crossing to access structure no. 160. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g., national roads, rivers, etc. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561471

• 29 Sept 2025Conditional

  for a proposed extension to the existing GAA grounds to facilitate the upgrading of an existing training pitch to a full size main pitch No. 02 and the provision of an additional full size playing pitch, main pitch No. 03

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561409

• 13 Sept 2024Conditional

  of: (i) the existing wall-ball facility and associated flood lighting, (ii) relocation of the car parking facility, granted under Pl. Ref. No. 01/4152, within extended site boundaries. Permission to extend the existing wall-ball facility and permission for the provision of an all-weather Astro turf training facility including for the associated flood lighting

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461212

• 12 Sept 2023Refused

  (i) of the existing wall-ball facility & associated flood lighting; (ii) retention of the relocation of the car parking facility, granted under pl. ref. no. 01/4152, within extended site boundaries; (iii) permission to extend the existing wall-ball facility. (iv) permission for the provision of an all-weather astro turf training facility including for the associated flood lighting at the Annaghdown GAA Club grounds

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2361088

• 20 Mar 2023Conditional

  to construct a new single storey dwellinghouse along with domestic garage, new treatment system, percolation area & all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360264

• 27 Sept 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a single dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 282 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211776

• 10 Sept 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a new two storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter, domestic garage and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 247 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211660

• 6 Oct 2020Conditional

  for development as described as follows. (a) To demolish the existing derelict dwelling. (b) To construct a new single dwelling house on an alternative location on site. (c) To replace the existing site entrance with a new site entrance on an alternative location on site. (d) To replace the existing septic tank system with a new proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling: 329 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: Existing Dwelling: 112 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201448

• 9 Jul 2020Conditional

  of first floor of previously approved dwelling house from attic storage to habitable accommodation. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 64 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20917

• 6 Mar 2020Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with calf creep and handling facilities to include concrete apron and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Slatted shed = 295 sqm. Concrete apron = 566.55 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20290

• 3 Jan 2020Conditional

  to demolish existing extension and to reconstruct and extend private dwelling house and construct private garage / store to include all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Extend = 83.30 sqm, Garage/store = 53.94 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 7.17 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 205

• 7 Feb 2019Conditional

  of a domestic garage/store and associated services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 85.1 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19162

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 Barravilla.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barravilla.

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_566 (ZIP).

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

Name

Barravilla · Barr an Bhile

Area

382,522 m² (38.25 ha, 94.52 acres)

Civil parish

Annaghdown, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Liscananaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Liscananaun electoral division: 1,601 people in 521 households; 83% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunmore, Cregg, Drumbaun, Gardenham or Garrymore, Glebe

Placenames

Barravilla 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.