# Highfield, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aughrim, barony of Kilconnell, Co. Galway; in Irish An Cheapach Ard. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 880,666 m² (88.07 ha, 217.62 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,410 m² (2.84 ha, 7.02 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aughrim, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/aughrim.md - Barony: Kilconnell - Electoral division: Aughrim, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 576 people lived in 198 households in the Aughrim electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% 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/17663 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62421 - Centre: latitude 53.328806, longitude -8.37093 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Highfield, from 973 m² to 103,001 m² (10.3 ha, 25.45 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2107222: 103,001 m² (10.3 ha, 25.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2107222.md - Parcel 2107231: 98,076 m² (9.81 ha, 24.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2107231.md - Parcel 2057376: 85,025 m² (8.5 ha, 21.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2057376.md - Parcel 2107229: 83,368 m² (8.34 ha, 20.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2107229.md - Parcel 2057377: 75,228 m² (7.52 ha, 18.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2057377.md - Parcel 4875548: 74,838 m² (7.48 ha, 18.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4875548.md - Parcel 2057373: 71,495 m² (7.15 ha, 17.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2057373.md - Parcel 2107232: 70,051 m² (7.01 ha, 17.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2107232.md - Parcel 2057375: 49,781 m² (4.98 ha, 12.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2057375.md - Parcel 2107230: 41,156 m² (4.12 ha, 10.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2107230.md - Parcel 2107224: 33,670 m² (3.37 ha, 8.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2107224.md - Parcel 2107225: 23,150 m² (2.31 ha, 5.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2107225.md - Parcel 2107221: 18,522 m² (1.85 ha, 4.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2107221.md - Parcel 4744910: 13,312 m² (1.33 ha, 3.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4744910.md - Parcel 2107228: 10,237 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2107228.md - Parcel 2107223: 7,324 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2107223.md - Parcel 2057370: 6,220 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2057370.md - Parcel 2057372: 5,670 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2057372.md - Parcel 2057371: 3,307 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2057371.md - Parcel 2057374: 2,294 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2057374.md - Parcel 2107226: 1,549 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2107226.md - Parcel 2107227: 973 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2107227.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Highfield 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 11 Mar 2026, Galway County Council 2660375: Conditional. Permission. for a slatted cattle shed with calf creep area, calving pens & ancillary concrete. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660375/0 - 26 Jan 2026, Galway County Council 2660092: Refused. Permission. for a farm road. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660092/0 - 17 Jun 2025, Galway County Council 2560773: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for retension of existing two storey dwelling & out-building. Permission for demolition of existing dwelling rear single & two storey blocks incl. concrete rain water harvester tank only. Full planning permission for single & two storey extension to all dwelling elevations incl. minor alterations & renovation to existing dwelling & out-building floor plan to reconfigure layout & alterations to existing elevations to suit, new treatment plant incl. percolation area with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed work: 94.07 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: (H) 101.13 sqm & (G) 27.93 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 53.27 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560773/0 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 Highfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Highfield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Highfield. ## 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 Highfield, about 1 in 20 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, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Highfield. - 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/highfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/highfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/highfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Highfield 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) - Ballinderry: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballinderry-60202.md - Cappagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/cappagh-60834.md - Dundoogan: https://everytownland.com/galway/dundoogan.md - Ellagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/ellagh-61938.md - Killareeny: https://everytownland.com/galway/killareeny.md - Northbrook: https://everytownland.com/galway/northbrook.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/highfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/highfield