Garraun

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraun, from 795 m² to 63,835 m² (6.38 ha, 15.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Garraun 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.

• 19 Feb 2024Conditional

  to construct a ground-floor extension to the existing house, comprising a bedroom ensuite, kitchen, utilities, and living areas. To replace the existing garage with a new one. Gross floor space of proposed works: 130 sqm (extension) & 25.16 sqm (garage). Gross floor space of any demolition: 18.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460167

• 26 Apr 2022Conditional

  for and completion of sheep shed and extension to same to include concrete apron and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Shed: 427.61sqm, Concrete apron: 68.45sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 22552

• 28 May 2020Conditional

  for extension to existing shed at rear of house and construction of new agricultural slatted shed on farm. Gross floor space of proposed works: 63.2sqm & 298.5 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20656

• 26 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 197.3 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17581

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: Rahasane Turlough SAC 000322
• Special Protection Area: Rahasane Turlough SPA 004089
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rahasane Turlough 000322

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Garraun.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Garraun, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_760 (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 Garraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Garraun · An Garrán

Area

392,625 m² (39.26 ha, 97.02 acres)

Civil parish

Killeely, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Rahasane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

363 people lived in 121 households in the Rahasane electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caheraloggy West, Rinn

Placenames

Garraun 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.