Ard West

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ard West, from 244 m² to 132,640 m² (13.26 ha, 32.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Ard West 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.

• 11 Jun 2025Conditional

  chun Talmhalochta & Mara agus gach obairlaithreáin ag teastáil a thogáil. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe: 120.5 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25137

• 28 May 2019Conditional

  le haghaidh síneadh agus athruithe ar scoil reatha agus ar sheirbhísí gaolmhara. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe: 91.1 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19808

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Kilkieran Bay and Islands SAC 002111
• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Nageeron SAC 002119
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ard West.

Architectural heritage

• Cé an Aird Thiar [Ard West Quay], pier/jetty, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  L-plan quay, built c.1895, in two phases extending into cove of Cuan na hAirde [Ard Bay]. Earlier section faces east and is of irregularly coursed granite rubble with roughly dressed limestone steps. Dressed granite block construction to later phase, built to courses with dressed coping blocks and having concrete repairs. Three sets of dressed granite steps to north-east, north-west and east elevations. Battered walls with parapet, concrete capping to step of southern elevation. Dressed granite mooring posts set into quayside, with stone surface to quay.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ard West · An Aird Thiar

Area

1,670,853 m² (167.09 ha, 412.88 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Knockboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockboy electoral division: 875 people in 319 households; 81% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ard East, Cuilleen, Dooyeher, Mace, Moyrus

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ard West 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.