# Ardfintan, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killursa, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Ard Fhiontain.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 715,336 m² (71.53 ha, 176.76 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 25,726 m² (2.57 ha, 6.36 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killursa, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killursa.md
- Barony: Clare
- Electoral division: Killursa, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Killursa electoral division: 1,135 people in 397 households; 86% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21825
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60105
- Centre: latitude 53.474987, longitude -9.132854 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardfintan, from 2,427 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 117,642 m² (11.76 ha, 29.07 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2017931: 117,642 m² (11.76 ha, 29.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2017931.md
- Parcel 6147565: 93,293 m² (9.33 ha, 23.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6147565.md
- Parcel 2017929: 74,310 m² (7.43 ha, 18.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2017929.md
- Parcel 1934722: 73,753 m² (7.38 ha, 18.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1934722.md
- Parcel 1934725: 67,385 m² (6.74 ha, 16.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1934725.md
- Parcel 1934719: 41,414 m² (4.14 ha, 10.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1934719.md
- Parcel 1934723: 33,948 m² (3.39 ha, 8.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1934723.md
- Parcel 2017932: 31,630 m² (3.16 ha, 7.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2017932.md
- Parcel 1934724: 30,974 m² (3.1 ha, 7.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1934724.md
- Parcel 2017934: 27,391 m² (2.74 ha, 6.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2017934.md
- Parcel 2017928: 24,061 m² (2.41 ha, 5.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2017928.md
- Parcel 2017933: 23,563 m² (2.36 ha, 5.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2017933.md
- Parcel 1934721: 21,818 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1934721.md
- Parcel 1934720: 18,754 m² (1.88 ha, 4.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1934720.md
- Parcel 2017930: 18,347 m² (1.83 ha, 4.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2017930.md
- Parcel 1934726: 6,132 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1934726.md
- Parcel 2017935: 3,079 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2017935.md
- Parcel 4706140: 2,747 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4706140.md
- Parcel 2017834: 2,667 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2017834.md
- Parcel 2017835: 2,427 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2017835.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ardfintan 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.

- 18 Oct 2023, Galway County Council 2361245: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system & a garage/shed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2361245/0
- 25 Jan 2023, Galway County Council 2360040: Refused. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed.Gross floor space of proposed works 317.00sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360040/0

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## 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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rostaff Turlough, site code 000385

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA041-001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA041-001----. On a NE-facing slope in grassland. Oval ringfort (N-S c. 45m, E-W c. 25m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone which is overlain by a field wall from N to SE. No visible surface trace survives from SE through S to SW. Within the interior is a probable souterrain (GA041-001001-) and a CBG (GA041-001002-) is associated. (O'Flanagan L, 163) 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
- GA041-001001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA041-001001-. In E sector of a ringfort (GA041-001----). Local tradition of a 'cave' of which no visible surface trace survives. 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
- GA041-001002: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA041-001002-. Within a ringfort (GA041-001----). According to local tradition, there was a 'lisín' here but no visible surface trace survives. 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
- GA041-002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA041-002----. In grassland, on SW-facing slope. A very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (N-S c. 62m) defined by a very low bank, best preserved from N through E to SE. A gap at NW may be original. A field wall cuts the monument at NW and SE, and a section to W of this has been almost levelled. The garden of an adjacent bungalow also intrudes at SE. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 163) record the tradition that St Fursa's father lived in 'a stone fort or caher' in this td.; this may refer to this monument or the ringfort (GA041-001-) c. 250m to 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
- GA041-003: Font (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA041-003----. Presently located in the yard of a farmhouse, this lugged font (max. base Wth 0.38m; Wth at top 0.46m; H 0.35m) may have been originally located at ‘Ross Abbey’ (GA041-047----), which lies c. 670m to the NNW. Only the bowl (base Wth 0.1-0.28m; Wth at top 0.3m; D 0.28m)survives. It was fashioned out of a single block of limestone which is now in three fragments as a result of shattering during a spell of severe frosts. See GA041-047005- for possible original location. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 July 2018

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 Ardfintan.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardfintan.
- 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/ardfintan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardfintan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardfintan.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ardfintan 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)

- Cordarragh: https://everytownland.com/galway/cordarragh.md
- Kildaree: https://everytownland.com/galway/kildaree-62590.md
- Moyne (Co. Mayo): https://everytownland.com/mayo/moyne-152564.md
- Ower: https://everytownland.com/galway/ower-63494.md
- Ross: https://everytownland.com/galway/ross-63742.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.

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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.

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