Muingbaun

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muingbaun, from 429 m² to 500,240 m² (50.02 ha, 123.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Muingbaun 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.

• 11 Jun 2026Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660949

• 18 Apr 2026N/a

  to construct; a milking parlour incorporating dairy, plant, storage, milk tank, hardcore, meal bin, rain water storage tank, holding yard with crush/drafting yard, flow channel, cubicles shed, hardcore area and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660596

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  for: (a) the demolition of existing sheds (b) the construction of a part two storey and part single storey extension to the front of the existing dwelling house (c) a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house (d) changes to elevations on the existing dwelling (e) and all associated site services.Gross floor space of proposed works 107.86.Gross floor space of any demolition 51.70sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360188

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 Muingbaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA117-099 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low-lying pastureland, c. 25m to the NW of a stream. This fulacht fia was accidently bulldozed and as a result ‘some burnt stone and charcoal patches c. 5m E-W by c. 2m N-S’ were revealed, as well as 'an area c. 1m square of yellow dobe at centre-south of same’ (pers. comm. E. Rynne). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 November 2019

• GA118-067 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a hummock in level pastureland. Known locally as ‘the lios’, this irregular unenclosed children's burial ground has been encroached upon by quarrying at S. According to local information, the last burial took place c. 1900. Sometime between the mid-1930s and mid-1940s hawthorn trees growing on it were removed but the graves were not disturbed. However, no visible surface traces of any grave-markers now survive. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 September 2019

• GA118-068 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Allington House, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, facing east and having four-bay return to west. Hipped slate roof with eaves brackets, and cut limestone chimneystacks with terracotta pots. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first floor and nine-over-six pane to ground floor, some openings boarded. Outbuildings ranged around courtyard to west of house.

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 Muingbaun, 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 Muingbaun.

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

Name

Muingbaun · An Mhoing Bhán

Area

2,690,264 m² (269.03 ha, 664.78 acres)

Civil parish

Kilquain, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Kilquain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

303 people lived in 107 households in the Kilquain electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonaghmore, Deerpark, Derradda South, Derrew, Gortadullisk, Heathlawn, Kill, Kilmore, Lissaniska South, Oldstreet, Shanbally, Woodfield

Placenames

Muingbaun 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.