Caraun More

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caraun More, from 21 m² to 192,702 m² (19.27 ha, 47.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 More 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.

• 2 Jul 2026Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system & private garage/store to include all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26164

• 25 Apr 2023Conditional

  for a change of extension & renovation design to existing house, on revised site boundaries & all associated site services & site development works as previously approved under pl. ref: 18/1842

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360417

• 11 Aug 2021Conditional

  for a new dwelling house, domestic garage and on-site sewage treatment system along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works house 220 sqm & garage 45sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211463

• 13 May 2021Conditional

  for development consisting of (1) Permission to construct a Dwellinghouse and Domestic garage / Garden store. (2) New sewage treatment system and (3) All associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 236 sqm, Garage/Garden Store: 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21804

• 4 Aug 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works, Gross floor space of proposed works; 210sqm (h) 40sqm (g)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201072

• 24 Feb 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 270sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20230

• 24 Feb 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works; 225sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20231

• 25 Oct 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, sewerage treatment facilities, site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 271.72 sqm (House - 229.75 sqm, Garage - 41.97 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191670

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  for the extension and refurbishment works to an existing dwelling house, internal alterations, new treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 116 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 62 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181842

• 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 More.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level poorly drained grassland. Well-preserved almost circular rath (N-S 36m, E-W 35m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank is visible only at NW and NE, and no visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives from N to NE or at S. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 More.

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

Name

Caraun More · An Cárán Mór

Area

1,433,548 m² (143.35 ha, 354.24 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

Bellafa, Ben Beg, Brackloonbeg, Caraun Beg, Cloonyconaun, Cross, Gortnaboha, Killescragh, Tormaun

Placenames

Caraun More 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.