Oatfield

154 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oatfield, from 10 m² to 146,398 m² (14.64 ha, 36.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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 Oatfield 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.

• 17 Jul 2025Conditional

  for; (a) construction of a single storey extension to the side [south west] of a single storey dwelling with minor elevational alterations to the existing dwelling and (b) all associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 24.64 sqm(extension)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25179

• 26 Nov 2024Conditional

  for the partial alteration of development, previously approved under Planning Ref. No 23/206 (construction of an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling, to include construction of à two-storey extension with elevational changes), to include demolitionof the existing dwelling and replacement with a new dwelling, together with previously approved domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 227.00 sqm(house), 57.00 sqm(garage), 80.10 sqm(extension)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461607

• 25 Apr 2024Conditional

  for a change in the house orientation to that previously granted under planning ref. no. 35673, conversion of part of the attic space of the dwelling house to office/storage space, the construction of a fuel store/shed and the construction of domestic garage/shed and all associated site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 16.64 sqm (attic conversion), 63.13 sqm (garage/shed) & 96 sqm (fuel store/shed)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460455

• 25 Apr 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a storage/agricultural shed, the construction of a polytunnel and all associated site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 112 sqm (agri. shed) & 74 sqm (agri. polytunnel)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2460457

• 22 May 2023Conditional

  of construction of an extension and altercations to an existing dwelling, including construction of à two-storey extension with elevational changes & a domestic garage with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23206

• 18 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 140.98 sqm, Garage/fuel shed: 53.94 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212158

• 11 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct a concrete silage slab. Gross floor space of proposed works: 384 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201301

• 20 Jan 2017Conditional

  of existing Holding Pen & Crush, Slatted Shed, Loose Shed and all associated site ancillary works. (Gross floor space of works for retention: 258.16 sqm.)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 1736

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 Oatfield.

Recorded monuments

• GA086-208 Enclosure
  Description

  In level grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (NW-SE 42.2m, NE-SW 37.5m); recently levelled during land development. It is defined by traces of a bank from S through W to NNE, and an external fosse from S to W. A drainage ditch and field fence cut it at SSE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-207 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In level grassland. Subcircular rath (E-W 30m, N-S 28m), in fair condition, defined by a bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-166 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused gravel pit; it is not an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 3 July 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Oatfield, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Oatfield · Corr an Choirce

Area

3,625,265 m² (362.53 ha, 895.82 acres)

Civil parish

Aughrim, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Oatfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

446 people lived in 149 households in the Oatfield electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaclogh, Ballynamuddagh, Cloghagalla Oughter, Cloonkeen East, Killallaghtan, Lissavahaun, Newcastle, Pollatlugga, Slihaun Beg, Slihaun More, Tooreenard

Placenames

Oatfield 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.