# Firpark, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Abbeyknockmoy, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Páirc na Giúise. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 382,577 m² (38.26 ha, 94.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,504 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Abbeyknockmoy, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/abbeyknockmoy.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Moyne, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 703 people lived in 239 households in the Moyne electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21947 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62027 - Centre: latitude 53.450904, longitude -8.668608 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Firpark, from 997 m² to 53,871 m² (5.39 ha, 13.31 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2050738: 53,871 m² (5.39 ha, 13.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050738.md - Parcel 2050733: 46,756 m² (4.68 ha, 11.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050733.md - Parcel 2734852: 42,247 m² (4.22 ha, 10.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2734852.md - Parcel 2374883: 38,642 m² (3.86 ha, 9.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2374883.md - Parcel 4459781: 29,012 m² (2.9 ha, 7.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4459781.md - Parcel 2050837: 26,512 m² (2.65 ha, 6.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050837.md - Parcel 2374882: 22,176 m² (2.22 ha, 5.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2374882.md - Parcel 2100171: 17,712 m² (1.77 ha, 4.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100171.md - Parcel 2100166: 16,445 m² (1.64 ha, 4.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100166.md - Parcel 2114608: 13,913 m² (1.39 ha, 3.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2114608.md - Parcel 2050736: 10,528 m² (1.05 ha, 2.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050736.md - Parcel 2100167: 7,668 m² (0.77 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100167.md - Parcel 6142307: 7,614 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6142307.md - Parcel 2100170: 7,394 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100170.md - Parcel 2050836: 6,946 m² (0.69 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050836.md - Parcel 2100169: 6,787 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100169.md - Parcel 2050838: 6,611 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050838.md - Parcel 2050839: 3,809 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050839.md - Parcel 2100168: 3,115 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100168.md - Parcel 2100172: 2,677 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2100172.md - Parcel 2050737: 2,673 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050737.md - Parcel 3629012: 2,352 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3629012.md - Parcel 5492930: 2,069 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5492930.md - Parcel 4459780: 1,230 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4459780.md - Parcel 2050840: 1,008 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050840.md - Parcel 2050735: 997 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2050735.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Firpark 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. - 11 Sept 2026, Galway County Council 2661548: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661548/0 - 17 Dec 2020, Galway County Council 201956: Unconditional. Extension of duration. to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works (Gross floor space house 200sqm; garage 60sqm). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201956/0 - 11 Jul 2018, Galway County Council 18970: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 144 sqm. (garage) 53.94 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18970/0 - 9 Oct 2017, Galway County Council 171461: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 205sqm, Garage 59sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171461/0 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 Firpark. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Firpark. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Firpark. ## 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 Firpark, about 1 in 5 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. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Firpark. - 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/firpark.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/firpark.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/firpark.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Firpark 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) - Brierfield South: https://everytownland.com/galway/brierfield-south.md - Cooloorta: https://everytownland.com/galway/cooloorta.md - Parklaur: https://everytownland.com/galway/parklaur.md - Windfield Demesne: https://everytownland.com/galway/windfield-demesne.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/firpark - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/firpark