Fakeeragh

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fakeeragh, from 28 m² to 280,823 m² (28.08 ha, 69.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Fakeeragh 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.

• 9 Apr 2026Conditional

  for; (1) alterations to dwelling house as constructed from previously granted planning permission ref. 971212 and (2) permission for 2 No. dormer windows to replace existing windows with associated internal and external alterations

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660537

• 8 Apr 2025Conditional

  to demolish existing substandard single-storey dwelling, and to construct replacement single-storey dwelling with attic accommodation, construct boat shed, remove existing septic tank and percolation area and replace with a three-stage wastewater treatment and disposal system as well as all ancillary site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 282.70 sqm(H), 37.50 sqm(G), 135.50 sqm(demolish)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560396

• 13 Aug 2024Conditional

  to demolish existing dwelling (prefabricated style) and replace same with a new dwelling house to current building regulations. Full planning permission for a domestic shed, waste water treatment system, percolation area and associated site work. Gross floor space of proposed work: 162.00 sqm (house) & 17.50 sqm (garage). Gross floor space of any demolition: 78.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461039

• 3 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct a new agricultural slatted sheep shed as well as all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 354.09 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201829

• 18 Jun 2020Conditional

  for (1) retention of existing dwelling house on revised site boundaries (2) removal of enurement clause (3) retain existing vehicle access road as constructed as well as all associated site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 270.25 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20756

• 19 Dec 2019Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 195.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191972

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with detached garage and septic tank with waste water treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 244 sqm, Garage - 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191543

• 26 Feb 2018Conditional

  to (1) demolish rear elevation of the existing house (2) proposed single storey extension to the front elevation of the existing house (3) proposed external and internal alterations to the existing house (4)proposed alterations to existing access road as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 102.34sqm, retention 38.66sqm, demolition 20.34sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18219

• 14 Dec 2017Conditional

  for Change of House Design from that granted on foot of Planning permission P09/557 and for Planning Permission for a Shed/Store, together with all ancillary siteworks and services. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 200sqm, Shed 40sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171790

• 21 Feb 2017Conditional

  of (1) alterations made to the existing dwelling house on revised site boundaries, previously granted under Pl Ref: 55263 (2) retain existing domestic garage (3) permission to remove enurement clause, condition 6. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 137sqm House & Garage 51sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 17218

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 Fakeeragh.

Recorded monuments

• GA035-040 Cist
  Description

  On a ridge c. 70m NW of Loch an Ime. Rectangular cist, aligned E-W (L c. 1.65m, Wth c. 0.7m, H 0.28m). The side-walls are composed of thin slabs but E endstone and capstone are missing. Traces of a low irregular cairn (4m by 3.5m) are visible around it abutting against a rock outcrop immediately to N. (Gibbons 1988) 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

• GA035-040001 Cairn - burial cairn
  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.

• GA035-041 Country house
  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

• Gleann Aoibheann, house, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached house, built c.1820, comprising three-bay single-storey front block having projecting flat-roofed porch to front, south, elevation, and two-storey block of c.1834 to west end of rear having three-bay first floor and four-bay ground floor, later block having decorative cast-iron balcony to west elevation and lean-to outbuilding to north elevation. Hipped slate roof to front block and to south end of addition, pitched to north end of latter, with rendered chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Porch has felt roof and moulded rendered cornice with finials to front corners. Painted roughcast rendered walls to front block, and painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls to addition with rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings to front block with tooled limestone and replacement concrete sills with tripartite six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Addition has two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, paired to west elevation. Replacement hinged timber casement windows to front and west sides of porch. Round-headed window openings to first floor of west elevation of addition with concrete sills, timber casement windows with Y-tracery to upper panes. Square headed door openings with timber panelled door to east elevation of porch, timber battened door with overlight to east elevation of addition, double-leaf timber glazed door flanked by timber glazed side lights to balcony of addition. Painted rendered boundary wall with gate piers having concrete coping and wrought-iron gates. Open water well located to north-east of addition and which once held an iron hand pump.

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 Fakeeragh, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_19 (ZIP).

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

Name

Fakeeragh · Faiche Chaorach

Area

558,901 m² (55.89 ha, 138.11 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

Clifden Demesne, Cloghaunard, Derreen, Letterdeen

Placenames

Fakeeragh 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.