Windfield Lower

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windfield Lower, from 112 m² to 105,063 m² (10.51 ha, 25.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Windfield Lower 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.

• 13 Feb 2025Conditional

  to reconstruct and extend private dwelling house to include all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2519

• 2 May 2024Conditional

  to construct a machinery storage shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 451 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460489

• 10 May 2022Conditional

  to demolish the existing derelict ruins of a house and construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 257sqm, Garage: 43sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22600

• 11 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage / fuel store with wastewater treatment plant percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 282.62 sqm (H: 244.47 sqm, G: 38.15 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201901

• 1 Mar 2019Conditional

  for a) two number livestock slatted units, existing entrance and associated services b) Permission for slatted unit with lieback and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 339.0 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 536 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 19297

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Windfield Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Windfield Lower.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Windfield Lower.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Windfield Lower.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Windfield Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Windfield Lower · Tóin le Gaoith Íochtair

Area

1,029,386 m² (102.94 ha, 254.37 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Cooloo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cooloo electoral division: 580 people in 201 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinrooaun, Brierfield (Blake), Brierfield (Toole), Brierfield South, Mullaghmore South, Windfield Demesne

Placenames

Windfield Lower 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.