Formweel

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Formweel, from 17 m² to 1,606,785 m² (160.68 ha, 397.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Formweel 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.

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  to construct an agricultural shed for the purpose of housing & handling livestock, animal feedstuff and for keeping farm yard manure dry, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25341

• 30 Oct 2025N/a

  to construct an agricultural shed for the purpose of housing & handling livestock, animal feedstuff & for keeping farm yard manure dry, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25297

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: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA 004181
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

• GA079-002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On N shore of Loch Fhormaoil. Known locally as An Tobar Beannaithe or Tobar na bhFaithní, it consists of a small natural hole (D 0.2m) on the lake margin which runs horizontally into the rock for c. 0.3m and contains some coins. A couple of small stones on a nearby boulder is the only marker for the well which was reputed to have a cure for warts (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. 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 Formweel.

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 Formweel, about 1 in 20 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 high, 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 Formweel.

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

Name

Formweel · Formaoil

Area

5,055,267 m² (505.53 ha, 1,249.18 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Selerna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,503 people lived in 548 households in the Selerna electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghermore, Glenicmurrin, Lugganimma, Muckanaghkillew, Shannapheasteen

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Formweel 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.