Garraun Upper

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraun Upper, from 47 m² to 96,400 m² (9.64 ha, 23.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Garraun Upper 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.

• 29 Jan 2026Conditional

  to construct a single storey timber building to the rear of the the tennis courts at Maree Community Centre

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2617

• 1 Sept 2025Refused

  for modifications (change of house plan) to planning permission reference # 22/773 granted for demolition of substandard existing dwelling house, and construction of new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit/percolation area and all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561227

• 28 Aug 2024Conditional

  of domestic garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 38.00 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461120

• 17 Jul 2024Conditional

  to erect domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 59.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460884

• 16 Sept 2022Conditional

  planning permission, for a 9 a-side and a 5 a-side all weather sports pitches with pitch fencing, hooded pitch lighting with a cessation time of 22:00 hours, and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260941

• 15 Jun 2022Conditional

  to (1) demolish existing substandard dwelling house and (2) erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 232.2sqm + 50sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22773

• 9 Aug 2021Conditional

  for extended use of previously permitted flood lights as granted under planning Ref 17/350 with a new cessation time for lighting of 21.00 hours Monday to Friday and 20.00 hours Saturday & Sunday.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211456

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  to 1) install astro turf surface to existing ball wall area and 2) erect 2.40 m high palisade fence around astro turf. Gross floor space of proposed works; 685sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20776

• 15 Mar 2017Conditional

  for an all weather sports pitch with pitch fencing, pitch lighting, dugouts, storage building, signage and all associated site works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 50 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17350

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 Garraun Upper.

Recorded monuments

• GA095-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Subcircular rath (33.7m N-S; 31m E-W), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is best preserved from SE through W to NW. From NE to SE piles of rubble and timber have been dumped along and on top of it. The fosse and outer bank survive from S through W to N. A possible souterrain (GA095-047001-) is associated. (Holt 1912, 229; McCaffrey 1952, 131-2, no. 21) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 December 2017

• GA095-047001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a rath (GA095-047----). Holt (1912, 229) noted a hollow and suggested that it indicated a collapsed 'souterrain'. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 December 2017

• GA095-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of a hillock in pastureland. This roughly oval rath (34m E-W; 25m N-S), in fair condition, is defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter survives from W to NW. A gap (Wth 3m) at E may be original. (Holt 1912, 229; McCaffrey 1952, 132, no. 25) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 22 December 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garraun Upper.

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

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_573 (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.

No address of the register names Garraun Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Garraun Upper · An Garrán Uachtair

Area

713,188 m² (71.32 ha, 176.23 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynacourty, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Ballynacourty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynacourty electoral division: 1,233 people in 428 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamanagh West, Cottage, Garraun Lower, Knockawuddy

Placenames

Garraun Upper 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.