# Monksfield, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killogilleen, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Fearann na Manach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,100,367 m² (210.04 ha, 519.01 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,601 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killogilleen, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killogilleen.md - Barony: Dunkellin - Electoral division: Killogilleen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 981 people lived in 308 households in the Killogilleen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 8% 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/20005 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63338 - Centre: latitude 53.181331, longitude -8.736397 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monksfield, from 145 m² to 329,596 m² (32.96 ha, 81.45 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2088114: 329,596 m² (32.96 ha, 81.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088114.md - Parcel 2039558: 221,292 m² (22.13 ha, 54.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039558.md - Parcel 2088117: 218,941 m² (21.89 ha, 54.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088117.md - Parcel 2088121: 121,027 m² (12.1 ha, 29.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088121.md - Parcel 2088102: 117,297 m² (11.73 ha, 28.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088102.md - Parcel 2039549: 83,878 m² (8.39 ha, 20.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039549.md - Parcel 2039547: 67,806 m² (6.78 ha, 16.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039547.md - Parcel 2088119: 67,763 m² (6.78 ha, 16.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088119.md - Parcel 2088111: 66,493 m² (6.65 ha, 16.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088111.md - Parcel 2088113: 65,316 m² (6.53 ha, 16.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088113.md - Parcel 2088105: 64,604 m² (6.46 ha, 15.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088105.md - Parcel 2039551: 64,239 m² (6.42 ha, 15.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039551.md - Parcel 2088104: 62,771 m² (6.28 ha, 15.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088104.md - Parcel 2039552: 62,769 m² (6.28 ha, 15.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039552.md - Parcel 2088109: 58,404 m² (5.84 ha, 14.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088109.md - Parcel 2039550: 56,717 m² (5.67 ha, 14.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039550.md - Parcel 2088110: 55,227 m² (5.52 ha, 13.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088110.md - Parcel 2088103: 51,646 m² (5.16 ha, 12.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088103.md - Parcel 2039557: 46,926 m² (4.69 ha, 11.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039557.md - Parcel 2039545: 32,561 m² (3.26 ha, 8.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039545.md - Parcel 5189187: 31,530 m² (3.15 ha, 7.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5189187.md - Parcel 2088120: 31,280 m² (3.13 ha, 7.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088120.md - Parcel 2039553: 19,082 m² (1.91 ha, 4.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039553.md - Parcel 4674823: 16,601 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4674823.md - Parcel 3991239: 15,209 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3991239.md - Parcel 2039548: 11,634 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039548.md - Parcel 2088106: 11,221 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088106.md - Parcel 2088116: 7,453 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088116.md - Parcel 2088108: 6,872 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088108.md - Parcel 5114156: 3,415 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5114156.md - Parcel 2039555: 2,993 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039555.md - Parcel 2088107: 2,753 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088107.md - Parcel 3173593: 2,726 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3173593.md - Parcel 4658454: 2,608 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4658454.md - Parcel 5539236: 2,492 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5539236.md - Parcel 2088118: 2,302 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088118.md - Parcel 3992845: 2,168 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3992845.md - Parcel 5249538: 2,072 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5249538.md - Parcel 4762375: 2,045 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4762375.md - Parcel 4631420: 2,015 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4631420.md - Parcel 4782195: 1,826 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4782195.md - Parcel 2039554: 1,482 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039554.md - Parcel 4462363: 823 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462363.md - Parcel 2039556: 640 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039556.md - Parcel 2088112: 448 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088112.md - Parcel 2039546: 400 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039546.md - Parcel 2088115: 145 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2088115.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Monksfield 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) 8 applications, newest first. - 12 Sept 2024, Galway County Council 2461204: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 301.28 sqm (house) & 60.00 sqm (garage). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461204/0 - 15 Dec 2022, Galway County Council 2261249: Refused. Retention, 1 home. the retention & completion of a dwellinghouse with revised plans & effluent treatment system on a site with revised site boundaries to those previously granted permission under pl. ref. no. 05/469 & 03/2755 and for all ancillary services & site works. Permission is also sought for the provision of a domestic garage ancillary to the dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 35.00 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 220.00 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2261249/0 - 28 Feb 2022, Galway County Council 22256: Refused. Permission. to retain and complete the following: the house, treatment plant and associated site works granted under 05/469. Gross floor space of proposed works: 230 sqm. Gross floor space pf work to be retained: Raft 174 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/22256/0 - 21 Oct 2021, Galway County Council 211962: Refused. Retention, 1 home. to retain the work completed namely raft of the house, treatment plant system and the associated site works permitted under Permission Consequent 05/469. Permission is now being sought to complete the house and associated site works which were permitted under 05/469. Gross floor space of proposed works: House; 230sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/211962/0 - 19 Nov 2019, Galway County Council 191796: Conditional. Permission. for domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 50 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191796/0 - 3 Oct 2019, Galway County Council 191528: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new 2 storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area, and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 224 sqm, Garage - 50.76 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191528/0 - 6 Mar 2019, Galway County Council 19315: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 197.66 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19315/0 - 18 Oct 2018, Galway County Council 181489: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, garage and a treatment plant. Gross floor space of proposed works: 224 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181489/0 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 Monksfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA104-206: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA104-206----. In rough pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 241, no. 126) as a very denuded circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 24.4m) defined by a bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.54m; ext. H 0.67m). It was subsequently levelled during field-clearance operations and no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018 - GA104-207: Designed landscape feature, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA104-207----. 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. - GA104-208: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA104-208----. In low-lying marshland. This subrectangular enclosure (24m NNW-SSE; 18m ENE-WSW) is defined by a low irregular bank of earth and an external fosse. Its date and purpose are unclear. It may be a designed landscape feature. (McCaffrey 1952, 242, no. 146a) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 April 2019 - GA104-209: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA104-209----. In rolling pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 242, no. 145) an ‘Earthen fort’ which was almost completely levelled due to cultivation; a slight mound (diam c. 36.5m) was evident. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 April 2019 - GA104-210: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA104-210----. In level pastureland. A well-preserved circular ring-barrow (diam. 24.7m) comprising a low flat-topped mound (diam. c. 11m; H 0.9m) encircled by a fosse and external bank of earth and stone. No visible surface trace of the bank survives at SW as a result of quarrying (McCaffrey 1952, 28, no. 146; 1955, 224). Field-clearance material has been dumped on it in the SE sector. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 August 2019 - GA104-211: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA104-211----. In an area of low-lying swampy ground. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 242-3, no. 146c) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 30.5m) defined by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. No visible surface trace survives. The low-lying swampy location of the monument is not the most likely siting for a rath. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018 - GA104-213: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA104-213----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monksfield. ## 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 Monksfield, about 1 in 10 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 Monksfield. - 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/monksfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/monksfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/monksfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Monksfield 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) - Ballyglass East: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyglass-east.md - Ballylin West: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballylin-west.md - Emlagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/emlagh-61941.md - Fiddaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/fiddaun-62018.md - Knocknamanagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/knocknamanagh.md - Lismoylan: https://everytownland.com/galway/lismoylan.md - Rathcosgry: https://everytownland.com/galway/rathcosgry.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/monksfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/monksfield