Northbrook

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Northbrook, from 147 m² to 1,016,036 m² (101.6 ha, 251.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Northbrook 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 Mar 2026Conditional

  for a slatted cattle shed with calf creep area, calving pens & ancillary concrete

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660375

• 26 Jan 2026Refused

  for a farm road

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660091

• 12 Jun 2017Conditional

  for an extension and alterations to existing dwellinghouse and to construct a domestic garage/fuel store including attic storage (gross floor space house 69.6sqm; shed 42.4sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17848

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 Northbrook.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Northbrook.

Architectural heritage

• Northbrook House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ashlar limestone triumphal arch, erected c.1860, at entrance to Northbrook ountry house. Comprising round vehicular entrance arch, flanked by lower round pedestrian arches. Main arch has moulded cornice with dentil course, carved roundels to recessed panels to spandrels, carved archivolts with keystones, moulded imposts, atop rusticated piers with moulded plinths. Pedestrian entrances having moulded cornices, recessed panels to spandrels, moulded archivolts with keystones and moulded imposts, cut-stone piers with moulded plinths. Wrought-iron spearheaded double-leaf gate to main arch, having carved stone wheelguards, and matching pedestrian gates and railings, latter to moulded plinths.

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 Northbrook, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Northbrook · Garraí an Átháin

Area

1,667,327 m² (166.73 ha, 412.01 acres)

Civil parish

Aughrim, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Aughrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

576 people lived in 198 households in the Aughrim electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagh, Carrowmore, Derradda, Garrymore, Highfield, Killareeny, Kilmalaw

Placenames

Northbrook 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.