Toberroe

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toberroe, from 23 m² to 1,433,018 m² (143.3 ha, 354.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Toberroe 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.

• 14 Jun 2021Unconditional

  to construct the following: a 24,505sqm single storey data centre building, a 5232sqm single storey Logistics and Administration Building, a 289sqm single storey Maintenance Building, a 16sqm Security Hut and associated barriers, 2 number 48sqm Fibre Huts (max building eaves height = 10m), 18 external standby generators, all associated external plant, a 20kV Electricity Substation, contractor facilities, a main entrance including a new right turning lane, internal access roads and associated infrastructure, proprietary waste water treatment plants including percolation areas, mains water connection, fire water storage tanks; rainwater harvesting, provision of fibre optic data connections, car parking (207 spaces, including 7 visitor spaces, 50 internal staff mobility spaces and disabled parking spaces), bike parking, an amenity walkway and associated parking, site leveling for a laydown area and a 220kV substation, 2.4m high perimeter security fencing, landscaping including supplementary tree planting and all associated works. A report for screening for Appropriate Assessment and an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be submitted with the planning application (gross floor space 30,138sqm)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 211047

• 7 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 32.5 sqm garage

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21766

• 8 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct a 4 bay slatted shed with cubicles. Gross floor space of proposed works: 476.3 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201868

• 24 Oct 2017Refused

  for a 20 megawatt solar Photovoltaic farm comprising photovoltaic panels on ground Mounted frames, 4 no. single storey inverter/transformer substations, 1 no. Single storey substation and transformer, 40 no. single storey 1 megawatt battery storage containers (in battery storage area), Internal tracks, closure of existing and provision of new operational access on to R348, fencing, CCTV/lighting and all associated ancillary development and landscaping (including berms) works. Temporary construction access from the Existing farm access road on the R348. Gross floor space of proposed works 220sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171538

• 13 Jul 2017Refused

  to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, a treatment plant and a garage. Gross floor space of proposed works 220sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171043

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 Toberroe.

Recorded monuments

• GA083-083 Well
  Description

  On inspection in June 1983 this proved to be a dried-up natural spring well. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 23 March 2018

• GA084-129 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low-lying marshy ground. Described by Cody (1989, 164, no. 25) as a small oval grass-covered stone mound (5m E-W; 3.2m N-S; H 0.2-0.6m). A smaller mound was visible 1m to the NE of its E end and there was another one 1m to the SW of its W end. An E-W running field wall formed the N limits of these two mounds. On inspection in 1984 only a poorly preserved rectangular area of burnt stone (5.5m E-W; 3m N-S; H 0.4m max.) partially covered by sod was visible. Two other fulachta fia lay c. 110m to the NNW and c. 50m to the NE respectively. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Toberroe.

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

Name

Toberroe · An Tobar Rua

Area

1,952,314 m² (195.23 ha, 482.43 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Greethill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Greethill electoral division: 1,086 people in 326 households; 89% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherbriskaun, Caraunduff, Derrydonnell More, Lisheenkyle East, Moyveela, Palmerstown, Rathmorrissy

Placenames

Toberroe 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.