Garraunbaun

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraunbaun, from 38 m² to 63,055 m² (6.31 ha, 15.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Garraunbaun 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.

• 11 Sept 2026N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26229

• 10 Jul 2025Conditional

  of their dwelling house , as built, and to retain a small domestic shed at rear of their house, as built, and to replace their existing septic tank with a new Wastewater Treatment System, complete with all ancillary services. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 33.64 sqm(extension), 13.47 sqm(G)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25170

• 2 Jun 2022Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 173.80sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260569

• 26 May 2022Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 156.6 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260542

• 26 May 2022Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 217.71 sqm (dwelling house)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260548

• 8 Jul 2021Unconditional

  for development consisting of a dwellinghouse, garage, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works (gross floor space 216sqm)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 211244

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 Garraunbaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA022-040 Standing stone
  Description

  On the summit of a low hill in rough pastureland overlooking Garraunbaun Lough to the SW and Ballynakill Harbour to the N. This white quartz standing stone, rectangular in plan (H 1.55m; Wth 1.1m; T 0.8m), leans to the E. Grassed-over small granite boulders are visible at its base on the N and E sides. The standing stone is visible on current aerial imagery (OSi digitalglobe 2011-2013). (Kinahan 1869c, 445, may be referring to it, amongst others;) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 28 July 2022

• GA022-041 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  At the base of a steep N-facing hillslope to W of Ballynakill Harbour. The monument, very ruined, consists of a chamber (L 3m, Wth 1.1m), aligned NW-SE, with a very tall backstone at NW and transversely set jamb at SE. The remains are those of the rear chamber of a court-tomb. A pitched-out stone, 2m to SE of the chamber, may be a displaced entrance jamb. A large slab lies to N, beside the monument. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA022-042 Chapel
  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

• Garraunbaun House, house, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built 1852, having two-bay side elevations, having slightly lower two-storey returns to rear, with further lower lean-to addition and single-storey addition to south return, and single-storey lean-to between returns. Hipped slate roofs, timber brackets to overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having concrete sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor and three-over-six pane to first floor. Round-headed door opening with replacement timber glazed door and sidelights, and spoked timber fanlight. Square-headed door openings elsewhere with replacement timber fittings. Terraced lawn, garden and orchard to front, and garden to rear. Two outbuildings to rear and rubble stone walls enclosing rear garden. Two-bay single-storey summer house situated to south-east. Rubble stone boundary walls with round rubble stone piers to south and square piers to east, with recent wrought-iron gates.

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 Garraunbaun, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Garraunbaun · An Gearrán Bán

Area

693,211 m² (69.32 ha, 171.3 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

516 people lived in 204 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooncree, Cloonederowen, Crocknaraw, Knocknahaw, Tooreen

Placenames

Garraunbaun 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.