Quaybaun

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Quaybaun, from 207 m² to 94,005 m² (9.4 ha, 23.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Quaybaun 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.

• 13 May 2024Conditional

  for change of design for house extension as granted under ref number 21838 for construction of a single storey extension to the rear of existing private house and include pitched roof detail over front porch. Gross floor space of proposed works: 61.50 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460546

• 19 May 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling and the construction of a domestic garage along with all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 94.1 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21838

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 Quaybaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA029-115 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a low-lying area of grassland. Poorly preserved overgrown subcircular rath (E-W 32.5m, N-S 27m) defined by a bank and water-filled fosse. The td. boundary overlies the bank throughout, and a number of field banks radiate from the monument. 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

• GA029-156 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 32m) defined by a degraded bank and external fosse; slight traces of the latter survive only at ESE. 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

• GA029-157 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 45m) defined by two banks-scarps and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present only at SW, elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field bank cuts the monument at SE and S and no visible surface trace survives to SE of it. Quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing elements at NE. There is a probable souterrain (GA029-157001-) in the interior. 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

• GA029-157001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA029-157----). Local tradition of a 'cave' in this rath. What is visible is a grassy L-shaped hollow, averaging 1.2m in depth, in NW quadrant. Its long axis (L 13.5m) runs WSW-ENE, but its turns sharply towards SE at its ENE end and continues on a NW-SE axis for a further 12m. 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

• GA029-158 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 30.5m) defined by a bank, no visible surface trace of which survives at NW. A field wall cuts the monument at 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Quaybaun, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_747 (ZIP).

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

Name

Quaybaun · An Caoth Bán

Area

462,596 m² (46.26 ha, 114.31 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Tuam Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

6,556 people lived in 2,346 households in the Tuam Rural electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardacong, Fortyacres, Garrauns, Garrauns, Lambhill, Marley, Slievedarragh

Placenames

Quaybaun 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.