Toberbrackan

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toberbrackan, from 2,233 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 330,130 m² (33.01 ha, 81.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Toberbrackan 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 May 2026Conditional

  for the installation of a 36-metre high lattice telecommunications support structure accommodating antennas, dishes, remote radio units (RRUs), lightning finial and aircraft warning light together with associated telecommunications equipment; ground-based equipment cabinets within a compound enclosed by 2.4 metre high palisade fencing with a 1.0 metre wide access gate; ESB mini pillar; construction of a new site access track connecting the compound to the existing access track; concrete foundation; fibre chamber and all associated site development works to provide for high-speed wireless data and broadband services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660721

• 1 Apr 2025Conditional

  for sunroom extension to front of dwelling house granted under permission reference 18/1428. Gross floor space of proposed works: 12.80 sqm(extension)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560352

• 21 Oct 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 229.02 sqm (house) 7 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211960

• 14 Apr 2021Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 229.02 sqm, Garage: 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21592

• 3 May 2019Conditional

  for modifications to permission reference 18/1428, in relation to front boundary wall and parking area

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19665

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct dwelling house and garage with on-site wastewater treatment, percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: (house) 206 sqm, (garage) 52.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181485

• 11 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct dwelling house and garage with on-site wastewater treatment, percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 184 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181428

• 11 Oct 2018Conditional

  of (a) dwelling house, ancillary room/garage building and garden shed together with septic tank/percolation and all associated services and (b) permission for new site vehicular entrance. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 401 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181429

• 5 Apr 2018Refused

  to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic waste water sewage treatment system for one dwelling and a domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 221.45 sqm. (garage) 52.50 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18409

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 Toberbrackan.

Recorded monuments

• GA095-145001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA095-145002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a natural hollow, c. 13m to the SE of the site of Toberbrackan Castle (GA095-145001-). According to the OS Letters, this well is dedicated to St Briocain (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 460). It consists of a spring well, with a circular stone-built surround (diam. 1.5m), which lies in the N half of a square enclosure ( L/Wth 4.7m); the latter is defined by a mortared-stone wall. A series of stone steps from the entrance at S lead down to the water. The entrance is marked by two worked jambstones, one on each side. When Redington (1912, 67-8) visited a number of pointed arch stones from it lay closeby on the ground. Three stone troughs are visible in front of the well and a memorial stone dated 1645 (GA095-145003-) lies against the S enclosing wall. Redington (ibid.) also recorded a roughly cut cross set into a heap of stones a little to the SE. Only the shaft was standing, the head lay on the ground. The following inscription was 'rudely cut' on it: 'O Lord Jesus, have mercy on the soul of Denny Rorke'. This was not noticed on inspection in February 1983. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 24 February 2020

• GA095-145003 Memorial stone
  Description

  This memorial stone lies against the S wall of an enclosure surrounding the holy well (GA095-145002-). It is finely carved in high relief and is dedicated to the Lynches. It reads: ‘Pray for the soules of John Linch fitch Geffrie fitch Dom of Gallway and Marey Linch fitch William his wife 1645’. It appears that the inscription was cut before John Lynch was transplanted to Lavally (Blake 1914, 75). In 1914 it was recorded that the slab 'was probably set up in the (now ruinous) wall enclosing the well by John Lynch Fitz. Geoffrey himself ... . Anthony Lynch, last of Lavally, moved the inscribed slab from the well to his garden, whence, on his leaving Ireland, it was restored by the tenantry to what they considered its proper place.’ (Lynch 1914, 93). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 25 February 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_719 (ZIP).

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

Name

Toberbrackan · Tobar Beacáin

Area

737,093 m² (73.71 ha, 182.14 acres)

Civil parish

Killeely, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killeely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killeely electoral division: 1,929 people in 572 households; 90% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinillaun, Kilcornan, Lavally, Roevehagh, Tarramud

Placenames

Toberbrackan 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.