Coarsefield
Townland in the civil parish of Oranmore, barony of Galway, Co. Galway; in Irish Sceach Liag
- Area
- 107.7 ha
- 266 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 47,982 m² (4.8 ha, 11.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coarsefield, from 16,244 m² (1.62 ha, 4.01 acres) to 102,418 m² (10.24 ha, 25.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coarsefield 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Jun 2023Conditional
to increase the width of a vehicle test centre previously granted under planning file reference 18/1801
Permission · Galway County Council, 2360599
15 Feb 2021Conditional
to construct an extension to the existing test centre (158 sqm) for the purpose of servicing vehicles. Gross floor space of proposed works: 158 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 21170
14 Dec 2018Conditional
for: A) Demolition of part of the existing building (29 sqm). B) The construction of an extension to the existing test centre (179 sqm). C). The construction of an extension to the existing garage (271 sqm) and ancillary accommodation for service/garage (202 sqm). D) Reconfiguration of the existing offices area (322sqm, {196sqm, ground floor area and 126sqm first floor area}). E) The construction of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) is included with this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 974 sqm. gross floor space of any demolition: 29 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 181801
23 Jan 2018N/a
for A) Demolition of part of the existing building (29 sqm). B) the construction of an extension to the existing test centre (179 sqm). C) the construction of an extension to the existing garage (537 sqm) and ancillary accommodation for service/garage area (316 sqm). D) reconfiguration of the existing offices area (324 sqm). E) The construction of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 1356 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 1848
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
- Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coarsefield.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coarsefield.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coarsefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Coarsefield · Sceach Liag
- Area
- 1,077,454 m² (107.75 ha, 266.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oranmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Galway
- Electoral division
- Carrowbrowne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrowbrowne electoral division: 1,040 people in 325 households; 86% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Angliham or Gortacallow, Carrowbrowne, Curraghmore, Kilroghter, Sylaun
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Coarsefield 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.