# Slaghta, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Fahy, barony of Longford, Co. Galway; in Irish Sleachta. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 545,735 m² (54.57 ha, 134.85 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,961 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Fahy, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/fahy.md - Barony: Longford - Electoral division: Meelick, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 296 people lived in 100 households in the Meelick electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21140 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63880 - Centre: latitude 53.164784, longitude -8.119719 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slaghta, from 903 m² to 100,805 m² (10.08 ha, 24.91 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1985302: 100,805 m² (10.08 ha, 24.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1985302.md - Parcel 1985295: 66,555 m² (6.66 ha, 16.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1985295.md - Parcel 1985301: 63,111 m² (6.31 ha, 15.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1985301.md - Parcel 1965152: 62,312 m² (6.23 ha, 15.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965152.md - Parcel 1965151: 59,145 m² (5.91 ha, 14.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965151.md - Parcel 1965145: 36,152 m² (3.62 ha, 8.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965145.md - Parcel 1985291: 20,770 m² (2.08 ha, 5.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1985291.md - Parcel 1985292: 19,699 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1985292.md - Parcel 1965149: 18,315 m² (1.83 ha, 4.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965149.md - Parcel 1965148: 15,665 m² (1.57 ha, 3.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965148.md - Parcel 1985294: 12,257 m² (1.23 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1985294.md - Parcel 1965147: 11,932 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965147.md - Parcel 1965146: 11,758 m² (1.18 ha, 2.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965146.md - Parcel 1985299: 9,821 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1985299.md - Parcel 4462660: 5,990 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462660.md - Parcel 2113123: 4,144 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2113123.md - Parcel 1985293: 4,003 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1985293.md - Parcel 1985297: 3,070 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1985297.md - Parcel 1985300: 1,136 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1985300.md - Parcel 1965150: 903 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965150.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Slaghta 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) No planning application touches the townland of Slaghta in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Shannon Callows SAC, site code 000216, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000216 - Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA, site code 004096, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004096 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows, site code 000216 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA108-216: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA108-216----. In undulating pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1944-5 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 August 2014 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 Slaghta. ## 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 Slaghta, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Slaghta. - 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/slaghta.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/slaghta.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/slaghta.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Slaghta 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) - Callow More: https://everytownland.com/galway/callow-more.md - Camus: https://everytownland.com/galway/camus.md - Derry: https://everytownland.com/galway/derry-61758.md - Muckanagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/muckanagh.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/slaghta - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/slaghta