Fartagar

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fartagar, from 232 m² to 150,102 m² (15.01 ha, 37.09 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 Fartagar 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Refused

  to construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system, infiltration/treatment area and domestic garage along with all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25352

• 5 Dec 2023Conditional

  for the construction of private dwelling house, domestic garage with on-site sewerage treatment system and all other site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 235 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361453

• 13 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling house: 265 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21581

• 23 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works of dwelling house 221 sqm. Garage = 40m2.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19601

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 Fartagar.

Recorded monuments

• GA029-053 Boundary mound
  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.

• GA029-054 Boundary mound
  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

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

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 Fartagar, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Fartagar · Fearta Ghearr

Area

787,209 m² (78.72 ha, 194.52 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbennan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Foxhall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

675 people lived in 239 households in the Foxhall electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bulcaun, Castlegrove East, Castlegrove West, Cloonascragh, Pollacorragune, Sylaun

Placenames

Fartagar 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.