Easterfield
Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway; in Irish Buaile na Cásca
- Area
- 103.1 ha
- 255 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 11,961 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Easterfield, from 91 m² to 159,057 m² (15.91 ha, 39.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Easterfield 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
31 Jan 2025Conditional
to construct a slatted shed with feed passage, manure pit to include concrete aprons and all associated site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 2515
14 Dec 2022Conditional
(a) changes to house design which was previously granted under planning reference no. 01/2102 (b) planning permission to retain and complete the dwelling house on revised site boundaries to include new wastewater treatment unit, percolation area & all associated site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 66.80sqm
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261241
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 Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Easterfield.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Easterfield.
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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Easterfield.
- 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 Easterfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Easterfield · Buaile na Cásca
- Area
- 1,030,840 m² (103.08 ha, 254.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Abbeyville, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Abbeyville electoral division: 274 people in 102 households; 86% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappagh, Coolfin, Derryvunlam, Kylemore, Lackan, Moannakeeba West, Wellpark
- Placenames
- Easterfield 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.