Garraun South

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraun South, from 32 m² to 163,659 m² (16.37 ha, 40.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Garraun South 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.

• 22 Aug 2024Conditional

  for: (1) the demolition of a single storey extension to the existing dwelling and demolition of domestic storage structures, (2) construction of a new two storey extension to the existing dwelling, (3) construction of a new domestic garage, (4) installation of a new treatment plant and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 130.63 sqm (extension), 50.50 sqm (garage). Gross floor space of any demolition: 48.49 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24247

• 2 Apr 2024Conditional

  of the existing dwelling house, storage shed/fuel store, entrance/exit gates, septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary site works all on revised site boundaries (previous planning application reference number 38109)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460361

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 Garraun South.

Recorded monuments

• GA043-082 Well
  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.

• GA057-109 Cairn - clearance cairn
  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

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having lean-to addition to rear. Pitched thatched roof with raised scolloped ridge, and rendered chimneystacks to gable ends. Battered roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered skirting and strips to quoins. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills, placed assymetrically. Slate roof, rendered walls and replacement windows to addition. Square-headed replacement glazed timber door.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Garraun South · An Garrán Theas

Area

1,406,067 m² (140.61 ha, 347.45 acres)

Civil parish

Belclare, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Claretuam, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Claretuam electoral division: 1,132 people in 394 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherlea, Carheens, Carrownaherick East, Culleen, Garraun North, Kilcurriv Eighter, Loughanspark

Placenames

Garraun South 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.