# Breenaun, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ross, barony of Ross, Co. Galway; in Irish Na Braonáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,315,844 m² (431.58 ha, 1,066.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,095 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ross, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ross.md - Barony: Ross - Electoral division: Cur, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 154 people lived in 66 households in the Cur electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20711 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60658 - Centre: latitude 53.535732, longitude -9.592174 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Breenaun, from 70 m² to 1,324,228 m² (132.42 ha, 327.22 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1936940: 1,324,228 m² (132.42 ha, 327.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936940.md - Parcel 1936956: 1,069,798 m² (106.98 ha, 264.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936956.md - Parcel 2015458: 275,098 m² (27.51 ha, 67.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015458.md - Parcel 1936939: 235,099 m² (23.51 ha, 58.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936939.md - Parcel 2015454: 199,876 m² (19.99 ha, 49.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015454.md - Parcel 5120027: 198,513 m² (19.85 ha, 49.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5120027.md - Parcel 1936957: 176,860 m² (17.69 ha, 43.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936957.md - Parcel 2015459: 175,359 m² (17.54 ha, 43.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015459.md - Parcel 2015453: 106,730 m² (10.67 ha, 26.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015453.md - Parcel 1936943: 104,935 m² (10.49 ha, 25.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936943.md - Parcel 4661295: 75,021 m² (7.5 ha, 18.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4661295.md - Parcel 4928523: 68,265 m² (6.83 ha, 16.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928523.md - Parcel 1936955: 67,480 m² (6.75 ha, 16.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936955.md - Parcel 4650833: 54,627 m² (5.46 ha, 13.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650833.md - Parcel 2015457: 38,025 m² (3.8 ha, 9.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015457.md - Parcel 1936948: 30,126 m² (3.01 ha, 7.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936948.md - Parcel 1936941: 28,763 m² (2.88 ha, 7.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936941.md - Parcel 1936947: 25,286 m² (2.53 ha, 6.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936947.md - Parcel 1936942: 10,095 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936942.md - Parcel 2015455: 6,896 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015455.md - Parcel 2015456: 5,278 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015456.md - Parcel 4964460: 4,696 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4964460.md - Parcel 4904349: 4,518 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4904349.md - Parcel 4637594: 3,836 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4637594.md - Parcel 1936944: 3,724 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936944.md - Parcel 1936950: 3,661 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936950.md - Parcel 4643341: 3,253 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4643341.md - Parcel 1936949: 2,646 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936949.md - Parcel 2015452: 2,395 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015452.md - Parcel 4637597: 2,358 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4637597.md - Parcel 4650851: 2,340 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650851.md - Parcel 1936945: 2,237 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936945.md - Parcel 1936953: 2,119 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936953.md - Parcel 4661299: 1,286 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4661299.md - Parcel 1936952: 332 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936952.md - Parcel 1936946: 269 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936946.md - Parcel 1936951: 70 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936951.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Breenaun 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) No planning application touches the townland of Breenaun in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Maumturk Mountains SAC, site code 002008, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002008 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumtrasna Mountain Complex, site code 000735 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA025-001: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA025-001----. On low-lying land in the centre of Gleann an Mháma and NE of the Joyce River. Indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an unenclosed irregularly shaped graveyard (c. 45m by c. 30m). Now much enlarged, rectangular and enclosed. It is divided into two parts: the larger W part containing modern graves, and E part containing older 19th-C graveslabs and plain headstones, two of which display Latin crosses. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA025-002: Boundary mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA025-002----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. 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 Breenaun. ## 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 Breenaun, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Breenaun. - 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/breenaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/breenaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/breenaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Breenaun 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) - Cammanagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/cammanagh.md - Cur: https://everytownland.com/galway/cur.md - Griggins: https://everytownland.com/galway/griggins.md - Kilmeelickin: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilmeelickin.md - Maum East: https://everytownland.com/galway/maum-east.md - Maum West: https://everytownland.com/galway/maum-west.md - Maumgawnagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/maumgawnagh.md - Raigh: https://everytownland.com/galway/raigh.md - Teernakill North: https://everytownland.com/galway/teernakill-north.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/breenaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/breenaun