Caraun Beg

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caraun Beg, from 2,053 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 218,414 m² (21.84 ha, 53.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Caraun Beg 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.

• 26 Jul 2019Conditional

  and completion of revisions to a previously granted house extension (Pl. Ref: 18/1161) to include 1) a reduced single storey extension now with a pitched roof to the north (side) only, 2) omission of second floor side extension, 3) minor elevational changes and associated site & external works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 19 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 161 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191167

• 15 Aug 2018Conditional

  for alterations and extensions to an existing two storey dwelling house to include 1) single storey extension to the north & east (side & front), 2) second floor side extension to accommodate re-modeled stairs, 3) a new treatment plant and percolation area 4) widening of the vehicular entrance and all associated site & external works. Gross floor space of proposed works 41 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained 161 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181161

• 22 Jun 2018Conditional

  for extension to an existing dwelling house and retention permission for conversion of attic and the addition of three roof lights. Gross floor space of proposed works 36.5 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained 35 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18851

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 Caraun Beg.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Caraun Beg.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caraun Beg.

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

Name

Caraun Beg · An Cárán Beag

Area

989,633 m² (98.96 ha, 244.54 acres)

Civil parish

Killimordaly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grange electoral division: 805 people in 256 households; 93% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackloon, Caraun More, Cloonsheecahill, Creevagh, Killescragh, Tormaun

Placenames

Caraun Beg 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.