# Chapelfield, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Abbeyknockmoy, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Páirc an tSéipéil. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 83,428 m² (8.34 ha, 20.62 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,777 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Abbeyknockmoy, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/abbeyknockmoy.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Abbey East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 655 people lived in 215 households in the Abbey East electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21290 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61122 - Centre: latitude 53.438365, longitude -8.727785 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Chapelfield, from 54 m² to 21,097 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2005785: 21,097 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2005785.md - Parcel 1945909: 20,057 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1945909.md - Parcel 1946015: 14,918 m² (1.49 ha, 3.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1946015.md - Parcel 1945913: 3,885 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1945913.md - Parcel 4461892: 3,777 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4461892.md - Parcel 1945911: 1,704 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1945911.md - Parcel 1945910: 1,466 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1945910.md - Parcel 4461893: 193 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4461893.md - Parcel 4461891: 54 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4461891.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Chapelfield 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) 1 application, newest first. - 28 Mar 2019, Galway County Council 19450: Conditional. Permission. to: A) Raise existing roof over existing dressingrooms and kitchen to allow for the construction of a new mulitipurpose room at First Floor level. B) New viewing balcony/ walkway at First Floor level. C) Changes to elevations associated with same. D) New front entrance porch on east elevation of existing Clubhouse. And associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: Porch - 300 sqm, Multi-purpose rooms - 111 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19450/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Chapelfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Chapelfield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Saint Bernard's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1810–1830, Regional interest, registry number 30405815, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30405815. Freestanding cruciform-plan Roman Catholic Church, built c.1820, having two-bay nave, and with four-bay lower twentieth-century extension to altar end, and glazed entrance porch to north-west transept. Pitched slate roof, having stone copings to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered and painted walls with rendered plinth. Gable to south-west has stone cross finial, with square-plan piers to bases having conical caps and with patera motif to decorative band below, surmounted by fleur-de-lys. Copings of this gable have decorative corbel table below. Pointed-arch niches to lower part of this gable, with moulded surrounds and containing statues. Pointed-arch windows throughout, with stained glass and stone sills, and smaller windows flanking statue niches. Triple-light window to south-west gable, having moulded string sill course. Transept gables have stone Y-tracery to windows, and apse has oculus. Pointed-arch doorways to north-west and north-east with timber doors, former being main entrance. Interior has choir balcony to south-west end with glazed screens below, exposed king-post timber truss roof supported on stone corbels, and sheeted timber ceiling. Cross-groin vault above altar crossing. Set back from road on elevated site with car park to north-west incorporating Marian grotto, fields to south-east and rendered boundary wall to road. Bellstand to grounds with cast-iron support structure and bell with raised lettering 'PRESENTED BY MICHAEL DONOVAN TO THE PARISH OF ABBEY KNOCKMOY REV. JOHN GREALY, P.P. 1829'. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Chapelfield, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Chapelfield. - 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/chapelfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/chapelfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/chapelfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Chapelfield 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) - Clashard: https://everytownland.com/galway/clashard.md - Farmhill: https://everytownland.com/galway/farmhill.md - Lindsay's Farm: https://everytownland.com/galway/lindsays-farm.md - Liss: https://everytownland.com/galway/liss-63134.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/chapelfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/chapelfield