Barrusheen

103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barrusheen, from 13 m² to 74,720 m² (7.47 ha, 18.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Barrusheen 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.

• 16 Apr 2026Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and to convert the existing dwelling house to a domestic garage/storage shed, together with all associated site works required. This application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2682

• 11 Dec 2025Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and to convert the existing dwelling house to a domestic garage/storage shed, together with all associated site works required. This application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25340

• 26 Jun 2025Conditional

  of a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area on altered site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 122 sqm(H), 27.00 sqm(G)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 25149

• 30 May 2025Conditional

  for a dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 257.00 sqm(H), 50.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560694

• 3 Feb 2020Conditional

  for proposed alterations to an existing dwelling to include 1)extending and altering within the footprint of the existing building (infilling ground floor open areas) 2) construction of a rear external stairs. 3) construction of a new front porch canopy 4) change of a front window to a door 5) upgrade of an existing septic tank to a new septic tank and tertiary treatment and all associated works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 46.40 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 128.20 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20113

• 27 Feb 2018Refused

  permission to construct a detached dwelling house, proprietary treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 216sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18222

• 23 May 2017Conditional

  to partially demolish existing fire damaged dwelling and to construct new dwelling, including all associated services, and retention permission is sought to retain wastewater treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 231.40sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17725

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
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barrusheen.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch stone road bridge, built c. 1870, comprising segmental arch with flanking battered buttresses. Elevations of bridge of coursed snecked limestone blocks, voussoirs are of rock-faced cut-stone blocks, soffit is of cut-stone blocks, abutments are of coursed rubble limestone blocks, soffit is of cut-stone blocks. Rock-faced copings to parapets. Tarmacadamed road surface over bridge with recent metal water pipe to east elevation.

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 Barrusheen, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_330 (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 Barrusheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Barrusheen · Barr Roisín

Area

501,951 m² (50.2 ha, 124.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derreenmeel, Tullyvealnaslee, Tullyvrick

Placenames

Barrusheen 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.