# Abbert, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monivea, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Abart. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 766,577 m² (76.66 ha, 189.43 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,361 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Monivea, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/monivea.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Abbey East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 655 people lived in 215 households in the Abbey East electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55961 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60002 - Centre: latitude 53.418103, longitude -8.687561 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Abbert, from 6 m² to 214,498 m² (21.45 ha, 53 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1991817: 214,498 m² (21.45 ha, 53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991817.md - Parcel 1991819: 140,926 m² (14.09 ha, 34.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991819.md - Parcel 1959018: 129,126 m² (12.91 ha, 31.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959018.md - Parcel 5158697: 115,570 m² (11.56 ha, 28.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5158697.md - Parcel 1991821: 89,294 m² (8.93 ha, 22.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991821.md - Parcel 1991818: 17,241 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991818.md - Parcel 1959016: 13,346 m² (1.33 ha, 3.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959016.md - Parcel 1959017: 12,358 m² (1.24 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959017.md - Parcel 1991820: 9,983 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991820.md - Parcel 2112941: 4,170 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112941.md - Parcel 5063760: 2,551 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5063760.md - Parcel 1959019: 2,359 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959019.md - Parcel 4730431: 2,334 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4730431.md - Parcel 1991822: 2,272 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991822.md - Parcel 5155793: 995 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5155793.md - Parcel 5155812: 296 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5155812.md - Parcel 5489175: 204 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5489175.md - Parcel 5489161: 114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5489161.md - Parcel 5155790: 105 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5155790.md - Parcel 5489160: 6 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5489160.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Abbert in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 26 Feb 2019, Galway County Council 19255: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to demolish part of alter and extend existing dwelling house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 89.66 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 72.86 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19255/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC, site code 000297, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000297 - Natural Heritage Area: Killaclogher Bog NHA, site code 001280, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/001280 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA058-001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA058-001----. On a slight rise in low-lying pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a bivallate circular enclosure with a circle of trees around the outer enclosing element. All that survives is a faint circular platform (D 37m) defined by a slight scarp. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Abbert. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Abbert, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Abbert. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/abbert.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/abbert.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/abbert.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Abbert, Abbeyknockmoy: 11 sales, https://everytownland.com/galway/abbert-abbeyknockmoy.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Abbert Demesne: https://everytownland.com/galway/abbert-demesne.md - Carrowmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowmore-60960.md - Graiguebaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/graiguebaun.md - Stonepark: https://everytownland.com/galway/stonepark-63931.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/abbert - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/abbert