Omaun Beg

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Omaun Beg, from 660 m² to 111,380 m² (11.14 ha, 27.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Omaun Beg 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.

• 25 Jul 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a new two storey dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area & all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23302

• 9 Sept 2022Refused

  for the construction of a new two storey dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 284 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221041

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Omaun Beg.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Omaun Beg.

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 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 Omaun Beg.

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

Name

Omaun Beg · Omain Bheag

Area

1,278,710 m² (127.87 ha, 315.98 acres)

Civil parish

Killererin, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Hillsbrook, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Hillsbrook electoral division: 693 people in 236 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnaderg North, Cooldorragha, Corskeagh More, Omaun More, Pollacappul

Placenames

Omaun Beg 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.