Gallonnambraher

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gallonnambraher, from 146 m² to 208,218 m² (20.82 ha, 51.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Gallonnambraher 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 Jun 2024Conditional

  to construct an agricultural building together with all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460272

• 18 May 2023Refused

  to construct an agricultural building for the purposes of machinery and animal feed storage together with all associated site works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23205

• 16 Mar 2022Conditional

  to erect detached storage shed for both domestic and agricultural use and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22107

• 24 Nov 2021Conditional

  (a) alteration of roof profile with additional dormer to the rear elevation , (b) alteration of the front elevation, and (c) a new attic floor level with additional bedroom, living room and balcony, (d) upgrading of sewage treatment system, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21712

• 22 Sept 2021Refused

  erect detached domestic shed and all associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21584

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 Gallonnambraher.

Recorded monuments

• CV039-051 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A small roughly circular spring well with remains of drystone facing. Situated at the foot of a hillock. A second holy well (CV039-052----) lies 80m to NNE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV039-052 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked 'Holy Well' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated at the foot of a hillock, c. 80m SSW of another holy well which survives intact (CV039-051----). Davies (1948, 113) noted that the site was known as the 'Friars's Well' and adjoining it the 'Friar's Orchard'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV039-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Indicated as a tree plantation on all OS eds. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 31m) enclosed by a much-disturbed but well-defined low earthen bank. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV039-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 37m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a fosse identifiable from SE-W-NE, outside of which is a slight counterscarp bank identifiable from NNW-NE and at SW. Modern farm buildings encroach on the site at E and the fosse has been infilled here as a consequence. An earlier report (OPW 1969) suggested that a break in bank with accompanying causeway at SE represented original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Gallonnambraher.

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 Gallonnambraher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Gallonnambraher

Area

1,114,175 m² (111.42 ha, 275.32 acres)

Civil parish

Lurgan, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Lurgan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lurgan electoral division: 624 people in 211 households; 80% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacashel, Aghaloughan, Crosserule, Curraghkeel, Killyfinla, Lismeen

Placenames

Gallonnambraher 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.