Feagh West
Townland in the civil parish of Abbeyknockmoy, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Fiodh Thiar
- Area
- 201.8 ha
- 499 acres
- Land parcels
- 119
- registered freehold, median 7,223 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Feagh West, from 137 m² to 146,046 m² (14.6 ha, 36.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Feagh West 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Sept 2025Conditional
for construction of a new single storey side extension, single storey front porch, raised planting beds, alterations to existing elevations & all associated site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561271
4 Feb 2025Conditional
for construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, treatment system/septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 238.00 sqm(house), 55.00 sqm(garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560107
14 May 2024Conditional
for construction of bungalow dwelling house, new site entrance, with effluent treatment system and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 157.84 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460549
28 Apr 2017Conditional
of two storage buildings on revised site boundaries including boundary treatments and associated site works (gross floor area to be retained: 250 sqm.)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17604
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Feagh West.
Recorded monuments
- GA044-051 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
On a rise in grassland. Oval rath (N-S 37m, E-W 30.5m), in fair condition, defined by a degraded bank and external fosse best preserved from S through W to N. A field bank cuts the monument at E and S. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Feagh West.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Feagh West.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Feagh West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Feagh West · An Fiodh Thiar
- Area
- 2,017,691 m² (201.77 ha, 498.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeyknockmoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tiaquin
- Electoral division
- Abbey West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Abbey West electoral division: 884 people in 290 households; 86% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abbey, Ballina, Clogherboy, Feagh East, Garra
- Placenames
- Feagh West 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.