Toberacreggaun

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toberacreggaun, from 2,738 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres) to 57,309 m² (5.73 ha, 14.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Toberacreggaun 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Toberacreggaun in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Toberacreggaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-271001 Mound
  Description

  In reclaimed pastureland. This is an oval grassed-over earthen mound (21m E-W; 14m N-S; H 1.8m), in fair condition, with some stone protruding through the soil cover. There is a natural well, enclosed by a drystone wall, in the W half of it. McCaffrey (1952, 19, 251, no. 135a) classified the mound as a 'Tumulus (?)'. Its antiquity is uncertain. It is shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an unenclosed tree-ring. Possibly a landscape feature. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 November 2019

• GA104-271002 Well
  Description

  Within the W half of a mound (GA104-271001-). This natural well is enclosed by a drystone wall. Stone steps access it. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 November 2019

• GA104-290 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Toberacreggaun, 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 Toberacreggaun.

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

Name

Toberacreggaun · Tobar an Chreagáin

Area

318,846 m² (31.88 ha, 78.79 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Castletaylor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

693 people lived in 215 households in the Castletaylor electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybaun, Caherduff, Castletaylor North, Castletaylor South, Rooghaun, Sroove

Placenames

Toberacreggaun 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.