# Wellpark, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway; in Irish Páirc an Tobair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 236,952 m² (23.7 ha, 58.55 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,372 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballynakill-loughrea-ra.md - Barony: Leitrim - Electoral division: Abbeyville, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 274 people lived in 102 households in the Abbeyville electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20993 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 64194 - Centre: latitude 53.08944, longitude -8.373217 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Wellpark, from 725 m² to 140,483 m² (14.05 ha, 34.71 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1961287: 140,483 m² (14.05 ha, 34.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961287.md - Parcel 1961288: 87,518 m² (8.75 ha, 21.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961288.md - Parcel 4642072: 4,714 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4642072.md - Parcel 1989428: 2,031 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989428.md - Parcel 1989430: 1,124 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989430.md - Parcel 1989429: 725 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989429.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Wellpark 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. - 14 Jul 2026, Galway County Council 2661187: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661187/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA, site code 004168, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004168 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA126-038001: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA126-038001-. In pastureland c. 30m to the NE of St Feighin's Grave Yard (GA126-038----). This holy well is enclosed by a semicircular drystone wall (diam. 0.95m) and is accessible via an entrance at N. A small stream flows from it. Dalton (1909, 19) noted that the devotional rounds took place there on the last three Saturdays in September. However, according to local information, the well was visited between July 15th and August 15th each year, a tradition which is now discontinued. The water of the well was reputedly used as a cure for eye ailments. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 516) A pattern day is now held on 31st July. Rags were traditionally tied to the hawthorn tree growing beside the well. Two small stone cairns (GA126-038002-) adjacent to it are regarded as pentitential stations (Hoctor 2019, 17). Revised by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 30 October 2020 - GA126-038002: Penitential station, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA126-038002-. Adjacent to St Feighin's holy well (GA126-038001-). Two small cairns are regarded as penitential stations. In recent years they have been rebuilt as they had partially collapsed (Hoctor 2017, 17). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 November 2020 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 Wellpark. ## 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 Wellpark, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Wellpark. - 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/wellpark.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/wellpark.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/wellpark.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Wellpark 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) - Coolfin: https://everytownland.com/galway/coolfin-61433.md - Easterfield: https://everytownland.com/galway/easterfield.md - Lackan: https://everytownland.com/galway/lackan-62907.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/wellpark - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/wellpark