# Aghafadda, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monivea, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Achadh Fada. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 522,568 m² (52.26 ha, 129.13 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,836 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Monivea, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/monivea.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Tiaquin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20252 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60034 - Centre: latitude 53.376638, longitude -8.644305 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghafadda, from 344 m² to 132,531 m² (13.25 ha, 32.75 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1947713: 132,531 m² (13.25 ha, 32.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947713.md - Parcel 1947712: 101,198 m² (10.12 ha, 25.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947712.md - Parcel 2004004: 70,882 m² (7.09 ha, 17.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004004.md - Parcel 2004000: 51,769 m² (5.18 ha, 12.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004000.md - Parcel 2004001: 31,066 m² (3.11 ha, 7.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004001.md - Parcel 2004003: 27,645 m² (2.76 ha, 6.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004003.md - Parcel 2003998: 24,744 m² (2.47 ha, 6.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2003998.md - Parcel 4776401: 18,058 m² (1.81 ha, 4.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4776401.md - Parcel 2003996: 14,268 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2003996.md - Parcel 2004002: 13,339 m² (1.33 ha, 3.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004002.md - Parcel 1947714: 7,729 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947714.md - Parcel 1947717: 5,942 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947717.md - Parcel 2004006: 3,663 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004006.md - Parcel 1947715: 3,493 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947715.md - Parcel 4626216: 3,357 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4626216.md - Parcel 1947711: 2,484 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947711.md - Parcel 2003999: 2,136 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2003999.md - Parcel 2004005: 2,072 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004005.md - Parcel 1947716: 1,837 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947716.md - Parcel 4776398: 761 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4776398.md - Parcel 4460870: 351 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4460870.md - Parcel 2003997: 344 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2003997.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 6 Apr 2021, Galway County Council 21529: Conditional. Permission. to construct a Slatted Cattle Shed with Loose Bedded Area and Ancillary Concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works: 180 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21529/0 - 18 Feb 2021, Galway County Council 21192: N/a. Permission. to construct a Slatted Cattle Shed with Loose Bedded Area and Ancillary Concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works: 180 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21192/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tiaquin Bog, site code 001709 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA072-001: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA072-001----. 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 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 Aghafadda. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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: 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, 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/aghafadda.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/aghafadda.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/aghafadda.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aghafadda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Corrandoo: https://everytownland.com/galway/corrandoo.md - Cuddoo West: https://everytownland.com/galway/cuddoo-west.md - Knockcorrandoo: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockcorrandoo.md - Laghtonora: https://everytownland.com/galway/laghtonora.md - Lenamore: https://everytownland.com/galway/lenamore-62998.md - Tiaquin Demesne: https://everytownland.com/galway/tiaquin-demesne.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/aghafadda - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/aghafadda