Mountbrowne

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountbrowne, from 321 m² to 292,723 m² (29.27 ha, 72.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Mountbrowne 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.

• 27 Aug 2026N/a

  of planning reference 20/1950, for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 244.54 sqm.

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26216

• 20 May 2026Refused

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 244.54 sqm.

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26114

• 23 Nov 2025Conditional

  for change of house design to that previously granted under 20/1950

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561721

• 3 Jun 2024Conditional

  of dwelling house and proposed new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter upgrade on a revised site with revised boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460665

• 17 Dec 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 244.54 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201950

• 17 Dec 2020Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 279.3 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201951

• 25 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct a three bay single slatted unit. Gross floor space of proposed works: 250.82 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201775

• 8 May 2020Conditional

  for 1) Demolition of existing house & sheds (2) Alteration's to existing farm shed to domestic garage, (3) Construction of a new two storey dwelling house, (4) Replacement of existing septic tank with a new sewage treatment system (5) All associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 294.94 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 117.87 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20575

• 25 Jul 2019Refused

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 293.6 sqm (House - 245 sqm, Garage - 46.8 sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191149

• 25 Jul 2019Refused

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 279.3 sqm (House - 230.7 sqm, Garage - 48.6 sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191150

• 27 Jun 2019Refused

  for 1) Demolition of existing house & sheds (2) Alteration's to existing farm shed to domestic garage, (3) Construction of a new two storey dwelling house, (4) Replacement of existing septic tank with a new sewage treatment system (5) All associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 294.94 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition - 117.87 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19971

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 Mountbrowne.

Recorded monuments

• GA071-069 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 30.5m, N-S 28.5m) defined by a bank and external fosse. A rectangular structure (L 9.4m, Wth 6.8m) is located in W half of the interior; possibly a house site. A ringfort (GA071-006----) is visible c. 200m to E. 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 Mountbrowne.

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

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

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

Name

Mountbrowne · Cnocán an Bhrúnaigh

Area

1,193,886 m² (119.39 ha, 295.02 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyknockmoy, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Belleville, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Belleville electoral division: 670 people in 223 households; 90% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belleville Demesne, Cossaun, Farravaun, Glenmore, Gortavaura, Kilskeagh, Sheeaunpark

Placenames

Mountbrowne 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.