Bushfield

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bushfield, from 952 m² to 8,420 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Bushfield 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.

• 7 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 231.43 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560909

• 5 Feb 2025Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560113

• 25 Sept 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 240sqm, Garage 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181347

• 18 Jul 2018N/a

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 240 sqm. (garage) 60 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181010

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bushfield.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-031 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA097-167 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bushfield.

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, 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 Bushfield.

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

Name

Bushfield · Gort na Sceiche

Area

818,697 m² (81.87 ha, 202.3 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconickny, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Lackalea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lackalea electoral division: 425 people in 119 households; 97% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellayarha South, Coorbaun, Curraghroe, Kanargad, Kincullia, Lackafinna South, Lackalea

Placenames

Bushfield 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.