Loughaunbrean

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughaunbrean, from 1,729 m² to 168,856 m² (16.89 ha, 41.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Loughaunbrean 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.

• 14 Jan 2025Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 242.04 sqm (H) & 53.94 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 253

• 6 May 2021Conditional

  of existing dwellinghouse and all associated site works on revised site boundaries (Previously granted under planning ref. no 65719). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 282.3 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21756

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  for 1) alterations to new agricultural shed built for machinery/feed storage. 2) To construct small security office to front of existing shed and all associated site works. (Previously granted under planning ref. no. 14/360). Gross floor space of proposed works: Security Shed - 25.00 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 719.50 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 192020

• 5 Nov 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a private residential one-storey dwelling, including all associated site works and new entrance gate. Gross floor space of proposed works: 133 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181569

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 Loughaunbrean.

Recorded monuments

• GA073-133 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a rise in undulating marshy grassland. Circular rath (D 40m), in fair condition, defined by a bank overlain for the most part by field banks. A gap (Wth 2m) at E may be original. A souterrain (GA073-133001-) is located in NW quadrant of the interior. 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

• GA073-133001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within NW quadrant of ringfort (GA073-133----). A poorly preserved souterrain is indicated by shallow depression (L c. 7m) leading to the remains of a drystone-built rectangular chamber (L 3.5m, Wth 1.6m) 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

• GA073-134 Quarry
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. A feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a small sand pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 July 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Loughaunbrean, about 1 in 20 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

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

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

Name

Loughaunbrean · An Lochán Bréan

Area

544,174 m² (54.42 ha, 134.47 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Kilconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

658 people lived in 225 households in the Kilconnell electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Callow, Carrowmanagh, Cartrondoogan, Lecarrowmactully, Monambraher

Placenames

Loughaunbrean 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.