Aghafadda

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghafadda, from 344 m² to 132,531 m² (13.25 ha, 32.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Aghafadda 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.

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct a Slatted Cattle Shed with Loose Bedded Area and Ancillary Concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works: 180 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21529

• 18 Feb 2021N/a

  to construct a Slatted Cattle Shed with Loose Bedded Area and Ancillary Concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works: 180 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21192

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tiaquin Bog 001709

Recorded monuments

• GA072-001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland on SE boundary of td. This CBG consists of a small triangular platform (NE-SW; L 21m, Wth 14m, H 1.1m) which is bounded by a hay shed on NE side. Plain upright grave-markers, aligned N-S, are visible. According to local tradition, children were buried here up to 40 years ago. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 261) 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 Aghafadda.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Aghafadda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Aghafadda · Achadh Fada

Area

522,568 m² (52.26 ha, 129.13 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Tiaquin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tiaquin electoral division: 792 people in 250 households; 89% of households own their home; 59% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corrandoo, Cuddoo West, Knockcorrandoo, Laghtonora, Lenamore, Tiaquin Demesne

Placenames

Aghafadda 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.