# Seafield, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballynacourty, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Páirc na Mara.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 347,431 m² (34.74 ha, 85.85 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,293 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballynacourty, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballynacourty.md
- Barony: Dunkellin
- Electoral division: Ballynacourty, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballynacourty electoral division: 1,233 people in 428 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% 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/18503
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63788
- Centre: latitude 53.238422, longitude -8.936768 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Seafield, from 247 m² to 307,933 m² (30.79 ha, 76.09 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2034660: 307,933 m² (30.79 ha, 76.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2034660.md
- Parcel 2082842: 24,151 m² (2.42 ha, 5.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2082842.md
- Parcel 4682487: 3,984 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4682487.md
- Parcel 2034661: 3,387 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2034661.md
- Parcel 2082845: 2,293 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2082845.md
- Parcel 2082844: 2,088 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2082844.md
- Parcel 2034662: 2,023 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2034662.md
- Parcel 6083930: 1,324 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6083930.md
- Parcel 2082843: 247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2082843.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Seafield 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)

1 application, newest first.

- 13 Nov 2024, Galway County Council 2461532: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 198 sqm (House) and 39.50 sqm (Garage). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461532/0

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## 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 Seafield.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA095-052001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA095-052001-. On the N-facing slope of a ridge in pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 133, no. 19a) as a rectangular ‘Earthen fort’ (c. 61.2m E-W; c. 30.4m N-S) which was defined along the N side by a slightly curving bank and external fosse and along E and W sides by a scarp. The S end of the monument merged with the hillside. At S end of the interior, a raised inner platform (27.4m N-S; 18.3m E-W) was evident, which also merged into the hillside. Traces of an irregular curving bank were also evident beyond the scarp on the E side. Holt (1912, 243) referred to the ‘vague tradition of a castle [GA095-052002-] here’ and noted the strategic location of the site. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 April 2019
- GA095-052002: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA095-052002-. 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.
- GA095-142: House - 18th/19th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA095-142----. 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 Seafield.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_573, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_573.zip (ZIP).
- 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/seafield.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/seafield.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/seafield.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Seafield 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)

- Cottage: https://everytownland.com/galway/cottage-61533.md
- Cregganna Beg: https://everytownland.com/galway/cregganna-beg.md
- Derry: https://everytownland.com/galway/derry-61756.md
- Kilcaimin: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilcaimin.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.

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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/seafield
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