# Brownville, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rahoon, barony of Galway, Co. Galway; in Irish Baile an Bhrúnaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 652,749 m² (65.27 ha, 161.3 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,069 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rahoon, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/rahoon.md - Barony: Galway - Electoral division: Barna, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Barna electoral division: 3,866 people in 1,287 households; 84% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% 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/18522 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60675 - Centre: latitude 53.309765, longitude -9.10975 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownville, from 72 m² to 110,411 m² (11.04 ha, 27.28 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2584454: 110,411 m² (11.04 ha, 27.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2584454.md - Parcel 1926189: 80,930 m² (8.09 ha, 20 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926189.md - Parcel 1972164: 74,753 m² (7.48 ha, 18.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972164.md - Parcel 1972165: 61,855 m² (6.19 ha, 15.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972165.md - Parcel 4742834: 60,931 m² (6.09 ha, 15.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4742834.md - Parcel 1972167: 51,398 m² (5.14 ha, 12.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972167.md - Parcel 1926188: 43,252 m² (4.33 ha, 10.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926188.md - Parcel 1972166: 41,370 m² (4.14 ha, 10.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972166.md - Parcel 4770288: 34,404 m² (3.44 ha, 8.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4770288.md - Parcel 1926191: 22,799 m² (2.28 ha, 5.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926191.md - Parcel 1972163: 9,271 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972163.md - Parcel 4962652: 6,718 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4962652.md - Parcel 2073535: 4,425 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073535.md - Parcel 1972169: 4,091 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972169.md - Parcel 6146353: 4,048 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6146353.md - Parcel 1926196: 3,752 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926196.md - Parcel 1926192: 3,151 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926192.md - Parcel 1926195: 3,094 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926195.md - Parcel 4770292: 2,059 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4770292.md - Parcel 1972170: 1,945 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972170.md - Parcel 4807602: 1,883 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4807602.md - Parcel 1972168: 1,353 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972168.md - Parcel 1926193: 922 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926193.md - Parcel 1926190: 798 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926190.md - Parcel 1926194: 743 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926194.md - Parcel 4807621: 544 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4807621.md - Parcel 2584462: 316 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2584462.md - Parcel 1926187: 72 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926187.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Brownville 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. - 3 Apr 2025, Galway County Council 2562: Refused. Permission. chun oifig nua, síneadh leis an gCeardlann, seirbhísí coimhdeacha agus foirgnimh eile a choinneáil ar teorann athraithe agus chun córas séarachais nua chomh maith le gach obair eile a bhaineann leis an fhorbairt. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2562/0 - 29 Sept 2023, Galway County Council 2361175: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for: a) new ground floor single storey extensions to the front, side & rear of existing house, b) internal & external alterations, c) all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2361175/0 - 2 Oct 2019, Galway County Council 191521: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage and proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling - 188.49 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191521/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC, site code 000297, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000297 - Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA, site code 004042, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004042 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib, site code 000297 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA081-021: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA081-021----. On roadside verge immediately E of Toberoran Stream. This well, correctly Tobar Uarán, consists of a natural spring, dry at time of visit, and now heavily overgrown. 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 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 Brownville. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brownville. - 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/brownville.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/brownville.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/brownville.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Brownville 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) - Attyshonock: https://everytownland.com/galway/attyshonock.md - Gortatleva: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortatleva-62242.md - Killeen: https://everytownland.com/galway/killeen-62646.md - Oranhill: https://everytownland.com/galway/oranhill-63487.md - Tonacurragh: https://everytownland.com/galway/tonacurragh.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/brownville - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/brownville