# Farnaun, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilthomas, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish Fearnán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 452,865 m² (45.29 ha, 111.91 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,106 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilthomas, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilthomas.md - Barony: Loughrea - Electoral division: Cappard, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 121 people lived in 42 households in the Cappard electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19269 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61987 - Centre: latitude 53.099802, longitude -8.726598 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farnaun, from 395 m² to 74,607 m² (7.46 ha, 18.44 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2100165: 74,607 m² (7.46 ha, 18.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100165.md - Parcel 2100164: 42,277 m² (4.23 ha, 10.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100164.md - Parcel 2100153: 39,256 m² (3.93 ha, 9.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100153.md - Parcel 2050829: 34,611 m² (3.46 ha, 8.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050829.md - Parcel 5377031: 32,808 m² (3.28 ha, 8.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5377031.md - Parcel 2050828: 31,044 m² (3.1 ha, 7.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050828.md - Parcel 2100155: 30,940 m² (3.09 ha, 7.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100155.md - Parcel 2050834: 29,372 m² (2.94 ha, 7.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050834.md - Parcel 2100154: 19,261 m² (1.93 ha, 4.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100154.md - Parcel 2050832: 17,055 m² (1.71 ha, 4.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050832.md - Parcel 2050831: 15,282 m² (1.53 ha, 3.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050831.md - Parcel 2100161: 14,907 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100161.md - Parcel 2100160: 12,547 m² (1.25 ha, 3.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100160.md - Parcel 2050833: 9,664 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050833.md - Parcel 2100158: 8,818 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100158.md - Parcel 2100162: 5,330 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100162.md - Parcel 2050835: 4,918 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050835.md - Parcel 2100163: 4,764 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100163.md - Parcel 2739085: 3,614 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2739085.md - Parcel 4629417: 2,676 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4629417.md - Parcel 2100156: 2,481 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100156.md - Parcel 2100157: 2,231 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100157.md - Parcel 4463250: 2,016 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4463250.md - Parcel 2100159: 1,297 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100159.md - Parcel 2050830: 539 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050830.md - Parcel 4629414: 395 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4629414.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Farnaun 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 28 Aug 2026, Galway County Council 2661471: N/a. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of an extension to the existing dwelling house comprising a home office, roof terrace, car port and an adjoining domestic garage, together with all associated site works and ancillary services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661471/0 - 27 Sept 2023, Galway County Council 23390: Refused. Permission. for: a) a separate garage building to the left of the main house as you look at it from the road, b) it will be the same height as the main house height to accommodate a campervan, a workshop & storage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/23390/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA, site code 004168, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004168 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farnaun. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Kenny's Bridge, bridge, 1740–1780, Regional interest, registry number 30412312, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30412312. Double-arch bridge, built c.1760, carrying road over Ballycahalan River. Round arches with tooled voussoirs. Coursed dressed walls with plinth to piers. Rubble limestone parapet walls. V-cutwaters to upstream (east) elevation. ## 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 Farnaun, 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 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 Farnaun. - 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/farnaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/farnaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/farnaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Farnaun 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) - Ballynahowna: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynahowna-60428.md - Cappard Demesne: https://everytownland.com/galway/cappard-demesne.md - Doonally East: https://everytownland.com/galway/doonally-east.md - Doonally West: https://everytownland.com/galway/doonally-west.md - Gardenblake: https://everytownland.com/galway/gardenblake.md - Hollymount: https://everytownland.com/galway/hollymount-62431.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/farnaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/farnaun