# Farta, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kiltullagh, barony of Athenry, Co. Galway; in Irish Fearta. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 604,393 m² (60.44 ha, 149.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 41,127 m² (4.11 ha, 10.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kiltullagh, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kiltullagh.md - Barony: Athenry - Electoral division: Raford, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20244 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61996 - Centre: latitude 53.256721, longitude -8.576226 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farta, from 1,187 m² to 104,938 m² (10.49 ha, 25.93 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2025714: 104,938 m² (10.49 ha, 25.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025714.md - Parcel 2073266: 69,839 m² (6.98 ha, 17.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073266.md - Parcel 2073267: 69,370 m² (6.94 ha, 17.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073267.md - Parcel 2073265: 66,179 m² (6.62 ha, 16.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073265.md - Parcel 2073263: 63,956 m² (6.4 ha, 15.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073263.md - Parcel 2025712: 63,931 m² (6.39 ha, 15.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025712.md - Parcel 2073264: 62,798 m² (6.28 ha, 15.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073264.md - Parcel 2025713: 54,921 m² (5.49 ha, 13.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025713.md - Parcel 2025711: 27,334 m² (2.73 ha, 6.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025711.md - Parcel 2025710: 5,037 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025710.md - Parcel 5351713: 3,663 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5351713.md - Parcel 2025715: 3,511 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025715.md - Parcel 2025716: 2,463 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025716.md - Parcel 2073269: 1,957 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073269.md - Parcel 2073262: 1,516 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073262.md - Parcel 2073268: 1,187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073268.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 7 Aug 2026, Galway County Council 2661370: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. sought to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661370/0 - 16 Jul 2026, Galway County Council 2661201: N/a. Permission, 1 home. for two story dwelling house and single story garage to rear with a waste water treatment plant, polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661201/0 - 4 Jun 2026, Galway County Council 2660887: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660887/0 - 22 Feb 2017, Galway County Council 17224: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17224/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Farta. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA097-102: Barrow - bowl-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-102----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Farta. ## 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 Farta, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farta. - 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/farta.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/farta.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/farta.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Farta 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) - Abberanville: https://everytownland.com/galway/abberanville.md - Ballykeeran: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballykeeran.md - Galboley: https://everytownland.com/galway/galboley.md - Knocknadaula: https://everytownland.com/galway/knocknadaula.md - Turoe: https://everytownland.com/galway/turoe.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/farta - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/farta