Faul

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faul, from 21 m² to 97,497 m² (9.75 ha, 24.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 2 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 Faul 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.

• 22 Nov 2022Conditional

  for change of house design and revised boundary to that granted in planing application Ref 201722.Gross floor space of proposed works 265.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261166

• 19 Jul 2021Conditional

  for amendments to already approved development (ref. no. 96-2308). The works include the following; a) construction of a new conservatory to the west elevation of the existing dwelling. b) removal of an enurement agreement related to condition no.6 of planning ref.no. 96-2308. Gross floor space of proposed works: 23 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211310

• 16 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with new site entrance and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 367 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201722

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  for development which consists of 270sqm, 3 bedroom single storey house and studio and for the installation of a new wastewater treatment system, associated percolation area and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works; 270sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20942

• 23 Dec 2019Refused

  for development consisting of 234m2 3 bedroom single storey house and studio and for the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area, new well and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 234 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 192026

• 4 Jul 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of; a) Demolition of existing porch & conservatory. b) Construction of a new family kitchen, dining & living room. c) Minor internal & external alterations. d) Associated site and landscape works above and below ground. Gross floor space of proposed works: 75 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 114 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 18 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191031

• 27 Jun 2019Conditional

  for construction of one and half storey dwelling house (184m2) with attached single storey carport (43m2), new separate single storey garage/gym (64m2), and new effluent treatment system with polishing filter area, new access road, and all ancillary services and landscaping works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 290 sqm (House - 184 sqm, Carport - 43 sqm, Garage - 63 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19980

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 Faul.

Recorded monuments

• GA035-043 Standing stone
  Description

  Close to the seashore on S side of Clifden Bay. Squat grey quartzite stone, pyramidal in shape (H 1m). A midden (GA035-044----) lies close by to W on the shoreline. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Faul, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Faul · Na Fáil

Area

749,681 m² (74.97 ha, 185.25 acres)

Civil parish

Ballindoon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Clifden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,059 people lived in 796 households in the Clifden electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardbear

Placenames

Faul 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.