Garraunbaun

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraunbaun, from 6 m² to 321,736 m² (32.17 ha, 79.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 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.

• 4 Mar 2024N/a

  for the development consisting of a new 38kV overhead line (OHL) from existing Glenamaddy 38kV station to existing cable ducts approximately 720 metres East of the existing Cloon 110kV station at Cloonascragh. The proposed development involves the construction of 179no. poles (up to 18m in height), 2no. end masts (up to 16.2m in height) and stringing with overhead lines, over a distance of approximately 26.8km, and all associated works including any temporary works required. The project was previously granted under pl. ref. no. 10779 and an extension of this permission was granted under pl. ref. no. 15861. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) accompanies the application. OSI 2,500 series; 2882, 2883, 2815, 2816, 2748, 2679, 2609, 2610, 2680, 2543, 2544, 2611

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460230

• 6 Sept 2023N/a

  to construct dwellinghouse, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area & all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361058

• 29 Oct 2019Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 91 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191675

• 28 May 2019Conditional

  for 1. the refurbishment and extension of existing dwelling house. 2. Demolition of existing shed to the rear of the house, 3. Construction of a garage, 4. Install new sewerage treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 197.2 sqm, Garage - 90 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 50.0 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19805

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA030-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in grassland overlooking bogland to S. Well-preserved circular rath (D 34m) defined by a bank at S, and elsewhere by a degraded scarp. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at W. Possible entrance at E. 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 Garraunbaun.

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Garraunbaun · An Garrán Bán

Area

1,182,368 m² (118.24 ha, 292.17 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbern, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Clonbern, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonbern electoral division: 388 people in 133 households; 88% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Claddagh East, Cloonagawnagh, Cloonarkan, Lomaunaghroe, Mahanagh

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.