# Mountbrowne, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Abbeyknockmoy, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Cnocán an Bhrúnaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,193,886 m² (119.39 ha, 295.02 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 66,964 m² (6.7 ha, 16.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Abbeyknockmoy, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/abbeyknockmoy.md - Barony: Clare - Electoral division: Belleville, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 670 people lived in 223 households in the Belleville electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18562 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63359 - Centre: latitude 53.353003, longitude -8.784199 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountbrowne, from 321 m² to 292,723 m² (29.27 ha, 72.33 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5412949: 292,723 m² (29.27 ha, 72.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5412949.md - Parcel 1990581: 292,288 m² (29.23 ha, 72.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990581.md - Parcel 1960264: 291,983 m² (29.2 ha, 72.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1960264.md - Parcel 2112983: 172,490 m² (17.25 ha, 42.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112983.md - Parcel 1990580: 123,572 m² (12.36 ha, 30.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990580.md - Parcel 1990582: 10,355 m² (1.04 ha, 2.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990582.md - Parcel 1990583: 3,855 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1990583.md - Parcel 5726062: 3,603 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5726062.md - Parcel 5726034: 3,000 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5726034.md - Parcel 5726044: 321 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5726044.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 27 Aug 2026, Galway County Council 26216: N/a. Extension of duration, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/26216/0 - 20 May 2026, Galway County Council 26114: Refused. Extension of duration, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/26114/0 - 23 Nov 2025, Galway County Council 2561721: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for change of house design to that previously granted under 20/1950. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561721/0 - 3 Jun 2024, Galway County Council 2460665: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of dwelling house and proposed new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter upgrade on a revised site with revised boundaries. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460665/0 - 17 Dec 2020, Galway County Council 201950: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201950/0 - 17 Dec 2020, Galway County Council 201951: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201951/0 - 25 Nov 2020, Galway County Council 201775: Conditional. Permission. to construct a three bay single slatted unit. Gross floor space of proposed works: 250.82 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201775/0 - 8 May 2020, Galway County Council 20575: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20575/0 - 25 Jul 2019, Galway County Council 191149: Refused. Permission. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191149/0 - 25 Jul 2019, Galway County Council 191150: Refused. Permission. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191150/0 - 27 Jun 2019, Galway County Council 19971: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19971/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mountbrowne. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA071-069: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA071-069----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mountbrowne. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Mountbrowne, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/mountbrowne.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/mountbrowne.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/mountbrowne.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mountbrowne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Belleville Demesne: https://everytownland.com/galway/belleville-demesne.md - Cossaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/cossaun.md - Farravaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/farravaun-61994.md - Glenmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/glenmore.md - Gortavaura: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortavaura.md - Kilskeagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilskeagh.md - Sheeaunpark: https://everytownland.com/galway/sheeaunpark.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/mountbrowne - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/mountbrowne