# Tievebreen, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moyrus, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish Taobh Braoin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 6,335,912 m² (633.59 ha, 1,565.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 164,782 m² (16.48 ha, 40.72 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Moyrus, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/moyrus.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Bencorr, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 219 people lived in 55 households in the Bencorr electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18069 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 64002 - Centre: latitude 53.501257, longitude -9.85205 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tievebreen, from 19,461 m² (1.95 ha, 4.81 acres) to 4,489,506 m² (448.95 ha, 1,109.38 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1967643: 4,489,506 m² (448.95 ha, 1,109.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967643.md - Parcel 1931117: 1,439,487 m² (143.95 ha, 355.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931117.md - Parcel 1967644: 164,782 m² (16.48 ha, 40.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967644.md - Parcel 1935997: 20,578 m² (2.06 ha, 5.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935997.md - Parcel 1931116: 19,461 m² (1.95 ha, 4.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931116.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Tievebreen 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) 1 application, newest first. - 14 Oct 2025, Galway County Council 2561498: Refused. Permission. for the installation of approximately 6.263km of stock proof fencing. The proposed fencing consists of galvanized steel posts (maximum height of 1.20m above ground level) installed at 1.80m intervals with standard sheep wire running between the posts. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561498/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex SAC, site code 002031, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002031 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex, site code 002031 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tievebreen. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tievebreen. ## 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 Tievebreen, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tievebreen. - 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/tievebreen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/tievebreen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/tievebreen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Tievebreen 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) - Barnanang: https://everytownland.com/galway/barnanang.md - Barnanoraun: https://everytownland.com/galway/barnanoraun.md - Derrynavglaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/derrynavglaun.md - Emlaghdauroe: https://everytownland.com/galway/emlaghdauroe.md - Glencoaghan: https://everytownland.com/galway/glencoaghan.md - Gleninagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/gleninagh.md - Lettery: https://everytownland.com/galway/lettery.md - Tievebaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/tievebaun.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/tievebreen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/tievebreen