Eyrephort

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eyrephort, from 1,220 m² to 101,245 m² (10.12 ha, 25.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Eyrephort 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.

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  to (1) demolish part of the existing rear elevation of the existing dwelling house and construct a new single storey side and rear extensions (2) proposed external and internal alterations to existing dwelling house (3) Replace existing septic tank and percolation area with new treatment system with polishing filter (4) Construct new domestic garage (5) proposed alterations to existing site entrance as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 144.55sqm, Garage 53.04sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained 53.44sqm, Gross floor space of any demolition 97.06sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181871

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Kingstown Bay SAC 002265

Recorded monuments

• GA022-036 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  Close to seashore on S side of Kingstown Bay. The remains of this partially ruined tomb are contained in a low oval mound (6m by 5.5m). The chamber (L 1.8m), aligned NW-SE, has been dug out and its S side is missing. It is formed by a single backstone to E and a double side-wall to N; a single stone, probable outer walling, is exposed to NW. The stones which formed its S side are probably among those which now lie along S edge of the mound. Although the remains cannot be classified with certainty, the tomb is very probably of the wedge-tomb class. (Petrie 1972, 253) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA022-037 Settlement cluster
  Description

  Close to shore on S side of Kingstown Bay. Petrie (1972, 253) refers to a 'town of Cahers and circular stone houses' at a place called 'Ballyconry (Baile Chonrigh, i.e. the town of Curigh)'. He then continues: 'They consist of circular foundations of various size, varying from 6 to 50 feet [2-17m] in diameter. The smaller ones appear to have been roofed with stone but there are none of them perfect'. All that is visible today is a large area (E-W 400m, N-S 200m) full of field clearance cairns with lazy-beds running between them, possibly the remains of the site referred to by Petrie. A wedge-tomb lies immediately W (GA022-036----). (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 91-2) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA022-038001 Midden
  Description

  In the sand-dunes S of the mouth of Kingstown Bay. An extensive area of exposed midden material eroding out of a shallow horizon, 0.3m in depth beneath the present ground surface. It is composed of burnt stone, oyster, winkle and limpet shells (info. M. Gibbons). A Viking burial (GA022-038----) is known from within the midden area. Not visited. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Eyrephort, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Eyrephort.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Eyrephort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Eyrephort · Iarphoirt

Area

566,333 m² (56.63 ha, 139.94 acres)

Civil parish

Omey, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Clifden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,059 people lived in 796 households in the Clifden electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kingstown Glebe or Ballymaconry

Placenames

Eyrephort 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.