# Queensfort, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Ráth na Manraí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,090,140 m² (109.01 ha, 269.38 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,514 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tuam, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/tuam.md - Barony: Dunmore - Electoral division: Killeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 734 people lived in 245 households in the Killeen electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21766 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63626 - Centre: latitude 53.562606, longitude -8.804442 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Queensfort, from 101 m² to 124,064 m² (12.41 ha, 30.66 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1930219: 124,064 m² (12.41 ha, 30.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930219.md - Parcel 1930222: 119,116 m² (11.91 ha, 29.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930222.md - Parcel 1930213: 114,912 m² (11.49 ha, 28.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930213.md - Parcel 5248625: 101,855 m² (10.19 ha, 25.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5248625.md - Parcel 2373893: 73,047 m² (7.3 ha, 18.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373893.md - Parcel 5248620: 49,729 m² (4.97 ha, 12.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5248620.md - Parcel 1968447: 47,219 m² (4.72 ha, 11.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968447.md - Parcel 2373892: 43,819 m² (4.38 ha, 10.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373892.md - Parcel 4721553: 40,532 m² (4.05 ha, 10.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4721553.md - Parcel 1968455: 40,014 m² (4 ha, 9.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968455.md - Parcel 1930210: 39,917 m² (3.99 ha, 9.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930210.md - Parcel 5753509: 38,820 m² (3.88 ha, 9.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5753509.md - Parcel 1930224: 37,174 m² (3.72 ha, 9.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930224.md - Parcel 1968457: 24,702 m² (2.47 ha, 6.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968457.md - Parcel 5625603: 23,782 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5625603.md - Parcel 1968450: 17,076 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968450.md - Parcel 1930209: 16,451 m² (1.65 ha, 4.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930209.md - Parcel 1995708: 15,934 m² (1.59 ha, 3.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995708.md - Parcel 1930223: 15,398 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930223.md - Parcel 1968456: 14,605 m² (1.46 ha, 3.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968456.md - Parcel 1930214: 14,600 m² (1.46 ha, 3.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930214.md - Parcel 1930208: 9,770 m² (0.98 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930208.md - Parcel 5626232: 7,080 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5626232.md - Parcel 1968458: 5,718 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968458.md - Parcel 4675003: 4,552 m² (0.46 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4675003.md - Parcel 1930212: 4,514 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930212.md - Parcel 4458987: 4,416 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4458987.md - Parcel 1930218: 4,114 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930218.md - Parcel 1968449: 4,003 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968449.md - Parcel 1968446: 3,996 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968446.md - Parcel 1930215: 3,888 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930215.md - Parcel 5463284: 3,644 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5463284.md - Parcel 4798360: 3,232 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4798360.md - Parcel 2608095: 2,895 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2608095.md - Parcel 1968453: 2,115 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968453.md - Parcel 1968454: 2,070 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968454.md - Parcel 1930308: 2,035 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930308.md - Parcel 1968448: 1,708 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968448.md - Parcel 1930309: 1,637 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930309.md - Parcel 1968445: 1,577 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968445.md - Parcel 4876157: 1,531 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4876157.md - Parcel 1968451: 1,508 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968451.md - Parcel 1930220: 1,383 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930220.md - Parcel 1930211: 772 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930211.md - Parcel 1930216: 641 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930216.md - Parcel 1930217: 359 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930217.md - Parcel 1930225: 236 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930225.md - Parcel 5753511: 216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5753511.md - Parcel 1930221: 204 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930221.md - Parcel 1968452: 192 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968452.md - Parcel 1972853: 101 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972853.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Queensfort 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. - 24 May 2023, Galway County Council 23212: Conditional. Permission. for the construction of a replacement spectator stand and the retention of foundation works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/23212/0 - 15 Feb 2021, Galway County Council 21174: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 202 sqm, Garage 60 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21174/0 - 8 Feb 2019, Galway County Council 19170: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling House - 277.8 sqm; Garage - 60 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19170/0 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 Queensfort. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA030-110: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-110----. On a hillock in otherwise level grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 47m) cut a field wall at NW and NE. It is defined by a scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank, but no visible surface trace survives to N of the wall. An enclosure (GA030-111----) lies immediately to E. 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 - GA030-111: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-111----. Immediately E of a ringfort (GA030-110----). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931) as N half of a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. 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 - GA030-112: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-112----. On an E-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 37m) defined by a bank which survives from NNE through E to SSW. A field bank overlies the enclosing element at N. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at W. Either of two gaps at NE and SE could be original. 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 - GA030-113: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-113----. On a rise in undulating grassland. Subcircular ringfort (E-W 40.3m, N-S 34m), in fair condition, defined by a stone-faces bank and intervening fosse with traces of a possible outer bank at S. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at NE and SW. A field wall overlies the enclosing elements at S. 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 - GA030-114: Designed landscape - ornamental lake, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-114----. 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. - GA030-115: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-115----. 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 Queensfort. ## 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 Queensfort, about 1 in 5 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 Queensfort. - 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/queensfort.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/queensfort.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/queensfort.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Queensfort 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) - Acres: https://everytownland.com/galway/acres-60019.md - Beagh (Browne): https://everytownland.com/galway/beagh-browne.md - Beagh (Donnellan): https://everytownland.com/galway/beagh-donnellan.md - Beaghbaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/beaghbaun.md - Drinaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/drinaun-61879.md - Glen: https://everytownland.com/galway/glen-62157.md - Joycegrove: https://everytownland.com/galway/joycegrove.md - Killeen: https://everytownland.com/galway/killeen-62644.md - Killeenan More: https://everytownland.com/galway/killeenan-more.md - Rahogarty North: https://everytownland.com/galway/rahogarty-north.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/queensfort - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/queensfort