Farta

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farta, from 1,187 m² to 104,938 m² (10.49 ha, 25.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Farta 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.

• 7 Aug 2026Conditional

  sought to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661370

• 16 Jul 2026N/a

  for two story dwelling house and single story garage to rear with a waste water treatment plant, polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661201

• 4 Jun 2026Conditional

  to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660887

• 22 Feb 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services (Gross floor space of proposed works: 230sqm house, garage 60sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17224

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 Farta.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-102 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of a ridge in grassland. Described by Coffey (1904, 14-20), prior to his excavation in 1903, as a circular ‘tumulus’ that was ‘40 feet in diameter and 9 feet in height [diam. 12.2m; H 2.7m]’. The excavation revealed that it was constructed of stones and earth with a layer of sandy soil at a depth of c. 0.9m. Beneath this layer, in the centre of the mound, lay the unprotected extended skeleton of an adult female whose head faced W. On one side, and to the S of the skeleton were a number of red deer bones and the skeleton of a horse. At the centre of the mound, on the old ground level, was an unprotected inverted cordoned urn containing cremated human bone, which rested on a flat slab (Waddell 1990, 93). When surveyed by Cody (1989, 152-3) it appeared as a disturbed circular inverted bowl-shaped mound with traces of a possible encircling fosse (Wth 2-3m; max. D 0.5m) on its W side. The E side had been partly removed, possibly as a result of the excavation. It was subsequently levelled and a barn was built on it. Probably a bowl-barrow. (Knox 1916c, 192-3 may also be referring to this mound; Waddell 1975, 16) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Farta, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Farta · Fearta

Area

604,393 m² (60.44 ha, 149.35 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Raford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

645 people lived in 217 households in the Raford electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abberanville, Ballykeeran, Galboley, Knocknadaula, Turoe

Placenames

Farta 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.