Bellanagarraun

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellanagarraun, from 22 m² to 215,807 m² (21.58 ha, 53.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bellanagarraun 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.

• 15 Jul 2026N/a

  to construct a new serviced dwelling with effluent treatment system and domestic garage/shed

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661192

• 9 Oct 2025Conditional

  for the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor between structure no. 81 and 161; the replacement of angle masts in-situ at 3no. locations, with similar structures; the painting of a tower at 1no. location; the replacement of polesets at 54no. locations, with similar structures. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16 m to 23 m along the circuit. The majority of the height increases will be between 0.1 m and 2.0 m (at 40no. structures), with 13no. structure replacements resulting in no change in height. Structure no. 109 will increase in height by 3.0 m; the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at all structures from structure no. 81 to 160; the replacement of stay wire / anchors and associated fittings at 3no. locations; the replacement of crossarms at 59no. locations; the installation of fibre wrap on phase conductor between structure no. 1 and structure no. 161; all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including the removal and reinstatement of 220m of hedgerow / field boundary (estimated using Táilte Éireann data), vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts / piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing; and other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e., guard poles) and a temporary watercourse crossing to access structure no. 160. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g., national roads, rivers, etc. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561471

• 21 Aug 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and all associated services

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461088

• 17 Oct 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a new private dwellinghouse, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area & domestic garage along with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361243

• 16 Mar 2023Conditional

  for a Change of House Plan from that as granted under Planning Ref: 21/1671. Gross floor space of proposed works: 263 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360247

• 23 Mar 2022Conditional

  Permission sought to retain dwelling house, domestic garage & fuel store along associated site works on revised site boundaries on previously approved permission Pl. Ref. No. 13-945

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260266

• 13 Sept 2021Conditional

  for a change of house plan from that as granted under pl. ref. no. 19/1450. Gross floor space of proposed works: 238 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211671

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, a garage and upgrade the existing wastewater treatment system along with all necessary site works and ancillaries. Gross floor space of proposed works: 173 sqm - House, 43 sqm - Garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 86 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201983

• 28 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works; 93sqm, (house) 52sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201395

• 15 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct a Serviced Dwelling with an effluent treatment system and domestic Garage/Shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 197 sqm House, 60 sqm Garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201317

• 25 Jun 2020Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed house; 333.5sqm (house) 45sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20820

• 20 Dec 2019Refused

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 332.1 sqm (house), 45 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191991

• 3 Oct 2019Refused

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 349.4 sqm, Garage - 45 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191542

• 19 Sept 2019Conditional

  to construct serviced dwelling, garage/shed and effluent treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 261 sqm - House, 60 sqm - Garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191450

• 21 Nov 2018Conditional

  to make : a) alterations and extend existing dwelling house and construct a new septic tank and effluent treatment system including percolation area, b) to widen the existing entrance, c) construction of a detached domestic garage with all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (House) 240.2 sqm, (Garage) 59 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181665

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 Bellanagarraun.

Recorded monuments

• GA028-003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a rise in grassland. A well-preserved rectangular area (N-S 13.3m, E-W 11.1m) enclosed by a partially collapsed drystone wall. Within the interior, numerous small set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. 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

• GA042-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in gently undulating grassland. A poorly preserved circular rath (D c. 40m) defined by a bank. Quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing element at SW and N, and a field wall overlies it from W to N. Another field wall cuts the monument at NW and SE. 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 Bellanagarraun.

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

At the centre of the townland of Bellanagarraun, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bellanagarraun.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Bellanagarraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Bellanagarraun · Béal Átha na nGarrán

Area

2,176,015 m² (217.6 ha, 537.71 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghpatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Donaghpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

584 people lived in 210 households in the Donaghpatrick electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvoher, Beagh Beg, Beagh More, Corillaun, Derrymore, Killamanagh, Ralusk, Shancloon, Tonacooleen

Placenames

Bellanagarraun 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.