Friary

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Friary, from 986 m² to 48,116 m² (4.81 ha, 11.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Friary 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Friary in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Friary.

Recorded monuments

• GA125-058 Religious house - Cistercian monks
  Description

  This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1978). The monument was taken into Guardianship under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 554.

• GA125-058001 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA125-058002 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1978).

• GA125-058003 Cross-slab
  Description

  In the graveyard associated with the Franciscan friary (GA125-058). This subrectangular limestone cross-slab (H 1.18m; Wth 0.68m; T 0.16m), leaning to the S, was broken in two pieces in the past but has since been repaired. A crack is still visible, running diagonally across it. The E face bears an incised two-line Latin cross that extends to the edge of the slab. A single curved line is incised in each panel above and below the cross. In the lower right-hand panel traces of decoration or lettering are visible. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 February 2023 The following image has been uploaded: GA125-058003-_01.jpg

• GA125-058004 Wall monument
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Friary, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Friary · Teach na mBráthar

Area

51,670 m² (5.17 ha, 12.77 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Tynagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

472 people lived in 169 households in the Tynagh electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbey, Garrynaglogh

Placenames

Friary 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.