Balrobuck More

246 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balrobuck More, from 21 m² to 29,075 m² (2.91 ha, 7.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Balrobuck More 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 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct a new domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561321

• 29 Jul 2025Conditional

  for change of house plans and garage from those previously approved under planning reference 23/61224 along with associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561036

• 12 Oct 2023Conditional

  to construct dwellinghouse & domestic garage, wastewater treatment system & associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361224

• 23 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct a three bay single slatted unit with creep area. Gross floor area of proposed works 180 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21433

• 23 Dec 2019Refused

  for (a) demolition of an old disused shed and (b) construction of a side extension attaching to the existing dwelling house with all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 46.5 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 114 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 34 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 192019

• 20 Jun 2019Conditional

  to construct dwellinghouse, garage and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 231.0 sqm (dwelling), 60 sqm (Garage).

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19936

• 29 May 2019Conditional

  for the erection of a new dwelling house, garage and sewage treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling house - 189.60 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19812

• 22 Nov 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a new 2 storey dwelling with garage and wastewater treatment system plus associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 289 sqm (Dwelling House 250 sqm and Garage 39 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181675

• 3 Sept 2018Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, wastewater treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works 264sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181241

• 22 Mar 2018Conditional

  to 1) construct a single storey extension to the rear and side of existing dwelling house, 2) construct a domestic garage/garden store, 3) all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works (extension) 34.5 sqm. (garage) 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18339

• 9 Nov 2017Conditional

  of a fully serviced dwellinghouse & domestic garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained House 194.62sqm, Garage 56.42sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171613

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 Balrobuck More.

Recorded monuments

• GA056-020 Enclosure
  Description

  In grassland. Circular enclosure (D 40m), in poor condition, defined by a low grassed-over bank of earth and stone from SW through N to NE. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and SW, to SE of which no visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA056-021 Forge
  Description

  This 19th-century forge consists of a thatched cottage within which all the tools associated with blacksmithing are evident, including a hearth and associated leather bellows, as well as an anvil and a myriad of tools. To the S of the cottage a large perforated circular limestone with two grooves is lying on the ground. According to local information, it was used to 'shoe' wheels, that is to put metal tyres on wooden cart wheels. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 15 February 2017

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having late twentieth-century extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with exposed scollops and decorative knotting, and low rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with rendered plinth, eaves course and parallel quoins. Square-headed window openings with decorative render surrounds, painted sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed doorway with raised render reveal and glazed panelled timber door. Set parallel to road with rendered wall to front yard having rendered piers and with decorative wrought-iron garden gate. Single-storey outbuilding to east with pitched corrugated-iron roof and painted random rubble stone walls.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with dormer attic, and having flat-roof entrance porch, and late twentieth-century monopitch extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with decorative knotting to ridge, low rendered chimneystack and rendered stone copings. Rendered walls with rendered plinth and parallel quoins and eaves course to front. Square-headed window openings with raised render reveals and replacement timber windows and glazed timber panelled door. Set parallel to road with garden to front having rendered boundary wall and piers, and metal garden gate to pathway. Single-storey outbuilding to rear with random rubble walls.

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 Balrobuck More, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Balrobuck More · Baile Robac Mór

Area

1,050,943 m² (105.09 ha, 259.69 acres)

Civil parish

Annaghdown, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Annaghdown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,451 people lived in 486 households in the Annaghdown electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balrobuck Beg, Corrandulla, Glenrevagh, Grange, Shanbally, Turloughgarve

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Balrobuck More 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.