Fartamore

95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fartamore, from 37 m² to 173,138 m² (17.31 ha, 42.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Fartamore 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.

• 1 Oct 2025Conditional

  of existing house and garage on amended boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561425

• 21 Oct 2021Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, garage, treatment system and percolation area and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 270 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211953

• 3 Jun 2021Refused

  to construct dwelling house, septic tank, and percolation area and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 270sqm (House) and 60sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21985

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA016-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the summit of a low hill in level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 43m, E-W 38.5m) defined by a bank and external fosse from NE through S to WNW. A scarp forms the enclosing element from WNW to NE. There is a CBG (GA016-052001-) within the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA016-052001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA016-052----). According to local information, this is the site of a CBG. A number of low set stones on the inner edge of the bank, flanking the entrance at SE, indicate grave-markers. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA016-053001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In a wide shallow valley beside a river. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'James Brimingham [sic]' (Nolan 1901b, 117). A poorly preserved almost square tower (L 11.2m, Wth 10.6m) now three storeys high; the NW corner has completely collapsed and there are several breaches in the walls. The springing of an arch at the top of E wall indicates the former presence of a stone vault. Few architectural features survive, however, a breach in E wall exposes the garderobe exit chute on 1st floor, and a wall-cupboard is visible within a broken embrasure in N wall. Some 4m W of SW corner, a bawn wall extends W for 5m and then turns N for c. 23m; no visible surface trace of N, E or S walls survive. There are earthworks (GA016-053002-) to W and NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA016-053002 Earthwork
  Description

  On low-lying ground to W and NW of Fartamore Castle (GA016-053001-). A series of flat-topped banks and broad fosses cover an area c. 200m by c. 100m but form no obvious pattern. Possibly drainage trenches and associated upcast. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Brooklawn National School, school, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay single-storey school, dated 1885, having entrance doorways to each end bay. Now derelict. Pitched slate roof, with brick chimneystack and with round vents to upper gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered rubble limestone walls, with inscribed limestone plaques above doorways, that to west reading 'Brooklawn Male National School 1885'. Square-headed window openings, with limestone sills and remains of timber sliding sash windows having three-over-three horizontal panes.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Fartamore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Fartamore · Fearta Mhór

Area

2,271,887 m² (227.19 ha, 561.4 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbennan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Foxhall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Castlegrove East, Claureen, Kilcreevanty, Lehid, Liskeevy, Lissaleen, Pollacorragune, Sylaun

Placenames

Fartamore 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.