Glenaun

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenaun, from 3,459 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres) to 107,228 m² (10.72 ha, 26.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Glenaun 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.

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  of outbuilding/storage sheds for domestic use, and permission for an extension to existing dwelling, demolition of existing sheds, removal of chimney, de-commissioning of existing septic tank, new sewage treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561528

• 12 Sept 2025N/a

  for dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561315

• 15 Aug 2025N/a

  for an extension to existing dwelling, demolition of existing sheds, removal of chimney, de-commissioning of existing septic tank, new sewage treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561127

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 Glenaun.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenaun.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Glenaun, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Glenaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Glenaun · An Gleannán

Area

425,506 m² (42.55 ha, 105.14 acres)

Civil parish

Clontuskert, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Clontuskert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

218 people lived in 90 households in the Clontuskert electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Chapelpark, Crossconnell More, Garryduff, Gorteencahill, Gortnahorna (Clanricarde)

Placenames

Glenaun 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.