Garraun More

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraun More, from 294 m² to 262,373 m² (26.24 ha, 64.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 More 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.

• 10 Apr 2026Conditional

  to construct an new shed with underground effluent storage facilities. The new shed will be adjoining an existing shed. Full planning permission also sought to retain the existing storage shed and meal silo bin and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660544

• 10 Feb 2026N/a

  to construct an new shed with underground effluent storage facilities. The new shed will be adjoining an existing shed. Full planning permission also sought to retain the existing storage shed and meal silo bin and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660195

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 187 sqm, Garage 50 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201987

• 13 Sept 2019Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 251 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191422

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 Garraun More.

Recorded monuments

• GA044-059 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Immediately N of a prominent E-W running ridge in rolling farmland. A well-preserved circular barrow (D 17.25m) consisting of a flat central area (D 3.8m, H 0.8m max.) encircled by a fosse, and a well-defined flat-topped external bank which has traces of an outer stone revetment at SE. A modern soil heap abuts it at NE. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 More, 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

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

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

Name

Garraun More · An Garrán Mór

Area

707,174 m² (70.72 ha, 174.75 acres)

Civil parish

Killererin, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killererin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

770 people lived in 271 households in the Killererin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardawarry, Barnaderg North, Carrowgorm, Carrowmanagh, Clogherboy, Garraun (Coyle), Garraun Beg

Placenames

Garraun More 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.