Sylaunnagran

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sylaunnagran, from 1,006 m² to 223,242 m² (22.32 ha, 55.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Sylaunnagran 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.

• 21 Aug 2025Refused

  for the existing plant and equipment machinery maintenance shed & change of use of existing garage into office and WC; along with all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561158

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 Sylaunnagran.

Recorded monuments

• GA017-149 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland, c. 70m NE of td. boundary. A roughly D-shaped area (NW-SE 24.5m, NE-SW 24m) enclosed by an earthen bank with both an internal and external fosse. Within the interior, there are in excess of 200 small set stones indicating graves oriented E-W. Near the centre is a low cairn (L 2.3m, Wth 2m) built of loose limestone pebbles. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, 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 Sylaunnagran.

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

Name

Sylaunnagran · Saighleán na gCrann

Area

760,211 m² (76.02 ha, 187.85 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Doonbally, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doonbally electoral division: 626 people in 210 households; 93% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aille, Carrowculleen, Carrowculleen (Hoare), Carrowmunniagh, Carrowrevagh Beg, Sylaun East, Sylaun West

Placenames

Sylaunnagran 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.