# Northbrook, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aughrim, barony of Kilconnell, Co. Galway; in Irish Garraí an Átháin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,667,327 m² (166.73 ha, 412.01 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 27,534 m² (2.75 ha, 6.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aughrim, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/aughrim.md - Barony: Kilconnell - Electoral division: Aughrim, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17667 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63463 - Centre: latitude 53.32455, longitude -8.354574 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Northbrook, from 147 m² to 1,016,036 m² (101.6 ha, 251.07 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2086716: 1,016,036 m² (101.6 ha, 251.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2086716.md - Parcel 2086714: 168,216 m² (16.82 ha, 41.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2086714.md - Parcel 2038251: 81,556 m² (8.16 ha, 20.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2038251.md - Parcel 2086721: 65,162 m² (6.52 ha, 16.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2086721.md - Parcel 2086715: 46,676 m² (4.67 ha, 11.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2086715.md - Parcel 2086719: 45,130 m² (4.51 ha, 11.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2086719.md - Parcel 2086717: 39,000 m² (3.9 ha, 9.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2086717.md - Parcel 2086720: 29,647 m² (2.96 ha, 7.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2086720.md - Parcel 2038255: 27,638 m² (2.76 ha, 6.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2038255.md - Parcel 2086722: 27,534 m² (2.75 ha, 6.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2086722.md - Parcel 2038256: 24,584 m² (2.46 ha, 6.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2038256.md - Parcel 2038254: 19,593 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2038254.md - Parcel 2038253: 9,522 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2038253.md - Parcel 2086723: 4,393 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2086723.md - Parcel 2038257: 2,892 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2038257.md - Parcel 2086718: 2,499 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2086718.md - Parcel 4695948: 2,246 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4695948.md - Parcel 5538071: 1,878 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5538071.md - Parcel 2086713: 147 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2086713.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 11 Mar 2026, Galway County Council 2660375: Conditional. Permission. for a slatted cattle shed with calf creep area, calving pens & ancillary concrete. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660375/0 - 26 Jan 2026, Galway County Council 2660091: Refused. Permission. for a farm road. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660091/0 - 12 Jun 2017, Galway County Council 17848: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17848/0 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 Northbrook. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Northbrook. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Northbrook House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 30408708, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30408708. 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. ## 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 Northbrook, about 1 in 10 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 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 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/northbrook.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/northbrook.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/northbrook.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Northbrook 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) - Cappagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/cappagh-60834.md - Carrowmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowmore-60961.md - Derradda: https://everytownland.com/galway/derradda-61728.md - Garrymore: https://everytownland.com/galway/garrymore-62130.md - Highfield: https://everytownland.com/galway/highfield.md - Killareeny: https://everytownland.com/galway/killareeny.md - Kilmalaw: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilmalaw.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/northbrook - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/northbrook