Alloonbaun

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Alloonbaun, from 272 m² to 205,459 m² (20.55 ha, 50.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Alloonbaun 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.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  for demolition of an existing gym building and construction of a new gym building. The works also include a new wastewater treatment system and a percolation area.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661478

• 12 Dec 2025Conditional

  to construct slatted shed & manure pit to include concrete aprons & all asscoiated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25342

• 21 Nov 2022Conditional

  to construct toilet facilities to include all associated site works for catholic church. Gross floor space of proposed works: 9.30 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 221181

• 22 Jun 2021Conditional

  to; 1. Reconstruct and extend existing slatted shed to accommodate cubicle shed with slatted tank to include concrete apron. 2. Construct milking facilities to include parlour, dairy, office, plant room and associated collection yard with slatted tank, drafting/ handling area to include concrete apron, meal bin and all associated site works at the above location. Gross floor space of proposed works: Ext.=505.52sqm, Milking=182.21sqm, Collection/handling=143.50sqm, Aprons=379.80sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211107

• 1 Jun 2021Conditional

  of dwelling house and alterations to plans submitted on revised site boundaries to that granted under planning reference number 14/564 and for change of use of shop (commercial) to part of the dwelling and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 139.45 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21954

• 5 Jan 2021Conditional

  to install a Ball Stop Net 12m high and 23.6m long.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 213

• 20 Jan 2020Conditional

  to change existing carparking facilities at the front of the school to include 1. Separate designated drop off and pick up areas for school buses and cars, 2. Visitor and teacher parking, 3. Construction of a wall to separate drop off and pick up area from the main road, 4. Construction of a new front boundary wall, 5. Construction of a new footpath, lighting and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1015 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2046

• 28 Jun 2019Conditional

  consisting of a three-bedroom dwelling, comprising of a kitchen & dining room, living room, playroom, bathroom, home office and utility/ storage areas, closure of existing agricultural entrance, new site entrance from road, new waste water treatment system, domestic garage and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 266 sqm, Garage - 61 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19995

• 5 Apr 2019Unconditional

  to extend existing car parking area to include all associated signs and works (Gross floor space 272.25sqm). Previous Planning Ref: 13/780

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 19509

• 9 Oct 2018Conditional

  to install floodlights, a 5m high hurling wall, 427.50 sqm. astro turf pitch and fencing

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181411

• 22 May 2018Conditional

  for a footpath internally along the periphery of the Club Grounds.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18663

• 4 Aug 2017Conditional

  for a sheep shed and ancillary concrete work. Gross floor space of proposed works 304sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171192

• 13 Jun 2017Conditional

  to construct a canopy to provide shelter above classroom entrance/exits, and to erect the school name on the external west-facing wall (gross floor space 138sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17856

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 Alloonbaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA073-001 Mill - cloth
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Church View, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having single-storey lean-to porch addition of c.1920 to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to gables, stone copings and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lime-rendered random rubble stone walls. Square-headed mainly two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, with one six-over-six pane window to ground floor front, with limestone sills. Part glazed timber entrance door to front elevation. House set back from road with modern outbuildings and farmyard to rear and lime rendered boundary wall.

• Ballymacward Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1800, over unnamed river. Northmost arch now blocked. Round arches with dressed limestone voussoirs to arch rings. Random rubble stone to spandrel panels and parapets, with coping stones set on edge. Random rubble walls leading from bridge along roadsides.

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 Alloonbaun, about 1 in 10 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 Alloonbaun.

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

Name

Alloonbaun · Alúin Bhán

Area

1,600,841 m² (160.08 ha, 395.58 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacward, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Ballymacward, the unit of the census

Census 2022

316 people lived in 113 households in the Ballymacward electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alloon Lower, Alloon Upper, Annagh, Ballymacward, Cloongawna, Lisgub East, Whitepark

Placenames

Alloonbaun 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.