Roundfield
Roundfield is a townland in the civil parish of Monivea, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Gort an Chaorthainn.
- Area
- 85.5 ha
- 211 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 16,357 m² (1.64 ha, 4.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roundfield, from 50 m² to 170,126 m² (17.01 ha, 42.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Roundfield 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Apr 2022Conditional
for changes to the original site development granted under Pl. Ref. No. 09/1873 on their property and changes as described as follows. (i) Revised Site Layout including revised location of the Proprietary Effluent Treatment system & associated Percolation area . (ii) Revised Location of Garage Structure on the site & Elevational Changes to the same. (iv) Increased Ridge Height to the dwelling house. (iii) Revised Site Boundaries.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260393
5 Apr 2017Conditional
to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage & proprietary treatment system. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 250.58 sqm., + Garage 60 sqm.)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17450
9 Feb 2017N/a
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 250.58sqm house, garage 60sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 17144
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Roundfield.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roundfield.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roundfield.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Roundfield, 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 Roundfield.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Roundfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Roundfield · Gort an Chaorthainn
- Area
- 854,778 m² (85.48 ha, 211.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monivea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tiaquin
- Electoral division
- Monivea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 794 people lived in 273 households in the Monivea electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carraunrevagh, Corralea, Costellospark, Farravaun, Pollavullaun, Pollboy or Knockatober
- Placenames
- Roundfield 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.