# Beaghroe, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish An Bheitheach Rua. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 717,388 m² (71.74 ha, 177.27 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,278 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tuam, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/tuam.md - Barony: Dunmore - Electoral division: Killeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 734 people lived in 245 households in the Killeen electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21739 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60543 - Centre: latitude 53.552334, longitude -8.818797 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beaghroe, from 54 m² to 135,127 m² (13.51 ha, 33.39 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1972735: 135,127 m² (13.51 ha, 33.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972735.md - Parcel 1972734: 121,907 m² (12.19 ha, 30.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972734.md - Parcel 1972739: 97,764 m² (9.78 ha, 24.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972739.md - Parcel 1972737: 67,459 m² (6.75 ha, 16.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972737.md - Parcel 1972738: 57,587 m² (5.76 ha, 14.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972738.md - Parcel 1972745: 36,460 m² (3.65 ha, 9.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972745.md - Parcel 1972736: 29,379 m² (2.94 ha, 7.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972736.md - Parcel 1972733: 21,413 m² (2.14 ha, 5.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972733.md - Parcel 1972742: 18,433 m² (1.84 ha, 4.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972742.md - Parcel 1925556: 18,404 m² (1.84 ha, 4.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1925556.md - Parcel 1972746: 18,215 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972746.md - Parcel 1972732: 17,221 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972732.md - Parcel 2439998: 16,969 m² (1.7 ha, 4.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2439998.md - Parcel 1972748: 14,278 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972748.md - Parcel 1925462: 12,997 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1925462.md - Parcel 1925553: 12,088 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1925553.md - Parcel 1972743: 4,521 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972743.md - Parcel 1972740: 2,415 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972740.md - Parcel 1925554: 2,295 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1925554.md - Parcel 1972744: 2,260 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972744.md - Parcel 1972747: 2,238 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972747.md - Parcel 1972741: 2,137 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972741.md - Parcel 5684961: 2,006 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5684961.md - Parcel 1925555: 1,304 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1925555.md - Parcel 4667031: 1,250 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4667031.md - Parcel 5531857: 662 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5531857.md - Parcel 4806011: 54 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4806011.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Beaghroe in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 18 Jul 2024, Galway County Council 2460891: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to remove the existing foundations and construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 131.00 sqm (house) & 60.00 sqm (garage). Gross floor space of any demolition: 131.00 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460891/0 - 21 Jan 2020, Galway County Council 2051: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 180.00 sqm, Garage - 40.5 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051/0 - 9 Oct 2017, Galway County Council 171462: Conditional. Retention. of the existing shed, the existing extension to rear of the dwelling house, the alterations to the façade of the dwelling house. Full planning permission sought to install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of work to be retained Extension 9sqm, Sheds 35.5sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171462/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Beaghroe. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA030-013: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-013----. Close to the summit of a hill in undulating grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 51.4m, N-S 45.4m) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is present from SE through W to NW. Traces of a possible outer bank are visible from SE to S. A number of cattle gaps breach the inner bank. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Beaghroe. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Beaghroe, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Beaghroe. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/beaghroe.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/beaghroe.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/beaghroe.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Beaghroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghlisk: https://everytownland.com/galway/aghlisk.md - Beagh (Browne): https://everytownland.com/galway/beagh-browne.md - Beagh (Donnellan): https://everytownland.com/galway/beagh-donnellan.md - Beaghbaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/beaghbaun.md - Glen: https://everytownland.com/galway/glen-62157.md - Keeloges: https://everytownland.com/galway/keeloges-62534.md - Lissavally (Jackson): https://everytownland.com/galway/lissavally-jackson.md - Tinkershill: https://everytownland.com/galway/tinkershill.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/beaghroe - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/beaghroe