Garracloon
Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Gearrchluain
- Area
- 30.1 ha
- 74 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 662 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential Existing
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garracloon, from 10 m² to 260,620 m² (26.06 ha, 64.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1Residential (Phase 1) (New/proposed residential)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Residential (Phase 2) (Strategic Residential Reserve)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 May 2017Conditional
to construct a utility garage to the rear of proposed dwelling. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 40 sqm.)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17748
30 Mar 2017N/a
to construct a utility garage to the rear of proposed dwelling. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 40 sqm.)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17420
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Garracloon.
Recorded monuments
- GA029-082 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level grassland near NW limits of Tuam town (GA029-199----). When originally visited in March 1985, this circular rath (D c. 35m) was defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. It was subsequently levelled by bulldozing and no visible surface trace survives. 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 Garracloon.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_706 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Garracloon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Garracloon · Gearrchluain
- Area
- 300,750 m² (30.08 ha, 74.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tuam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunmore
- Electoral division
- Tuam Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tuam Rural electoral division: 6,556 people in 2,346 households; 65% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Airgloony, Blackacre, Halfstraddle, Kilcloghans, Townparks (1st Division)
- Placenames
- Garracloon 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.