Woodbrook

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodbrook, from 263 m² to 108,658 m² (10.87 ha, 26.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Woodbrook 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.

• 1 Mar 2024Conditional

  and retention permission for development consisting of: (1) Retention permission for single storey shed, (2) Planning permission for the alteration and extension of an existing dwelling comprising; a) construction of single storey rear extension, b) alterations to existing elevations, and c) decommission of existing septic tank and percolation area to be replaced with proposed new tertiary treatment system and infiltration area and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 96.60 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 48.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460218

• 12 Jun 2023Conditional

  for new dwellinghouse, domestic garage with sump & pump to main sewer & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360639

• 5 Aug 2022Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 237.75sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260801

• 17 May 2022N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 197.34 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22635

• 21 Mar 2019Unconditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and associated services (Gross floor space 207.82sqm). Previous PL Ref: 13/879

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 19394

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 Woodbrook.

Recorded monuments

• GA032-050 Quarry
  Description

  In rough pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1931 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused gravel pit defined by a hollow. Probably of 19th/20th century date. A similar hollow (GA032-051----) lies in the same field c. 45m to the WSW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 October 2014

• GA032-051 Quarry
  Description

  In rough pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1931 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused gravel pit defined by a hollow. Probably of 19th/20th century date. A similar hollow (GA032-050----) lies in the same field c. 45m to the ENE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 October 2014

• GA032-052 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1931 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused gravel pit defined by an irregular hollow. Probably of 19th/20th century date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 October 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Woodbrook, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Woodbrook · An Leithcheathrú

Area

947,510 m² (94.75 ha, 234.13 acres)

Civil parish

Killian, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

647 people lived in 225 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghbrack, Cloonavihony, Lahacrogher, Newbridge, Newgrove, Summerhill, Windfield

Placenames

Woodbrook 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.