Chapelfield

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Chapelfield, from 54 m² to 21,097 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Chapelfield 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.

• 28 Mar 2019Conditional

  to: A) Raise existing roof over existing dressingrooms and kitchen to allow for the construction of a new mulitipurpose room at First Floor level. B) New viewing balcony/ walkway at First Floor level. C) Changes to elevations associated with same. D) New front entrance porch on east elevation of existing Clubhouse. And associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: Porch - 300 sqm, Multi-purpose rooms - 111 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19450

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 Chapelfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Chapelfield.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Bernard's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan Roman Catholic Church, built c.1820, having two-bay nave, and with four-bay lower twentieth-century extension to altar end, and glazed entrance porch to north-west transept. Pitched slate roof, having stone copings to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered and painted walls with rendered plinth. Gable to south-west has stone cross finial, with square-plan piers to bases having conical caps and with patera motif to decorative band below, surmounted by fleur-de-lys. Copings of this gable have decorative corbel table below. Pointed-arch niches to lower part of this gable, with moulded surrounds and containing statues. Pointed-arch windows throughout, with stained glass and stone sills, and smaller windows flanking statue niches. Triple-light window to south-west gable, having moulded string sill course. Transept gables have stone Y-tracery to windows, and apse has oculus. Pointed-arch doorways to north-west and north-east with timber doors, former being main entrance. Interior has choir balcony to south-west end with glazed screens below, exposed king-post timber truss roof supported on stone corbels, and sheeted timber ceiling. Cross-groin vault above altar crossing. Set back from road on elevated site with car park to north-west incorporating Marian grotto, fields to south-east and rendered boundary wall to road. Bellstand to grounds with cast-iron support structure and bell with raised lettering 'PRESENTED BY MICHAEL DONOVAN TO THE PARISH OF ABBEY KNOCKMOY REV. JOHN GREALY, P.P. 1829'.

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

At the centre of the townland of Chapelfield, 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 Chapelfield.

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.

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

Name

Chapelfield · Páirc an tSéipéil

Area

83,428 m² (8.34 ha, 20.62 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyknockmoy, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Abbey East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

655 people lived in 215 households in the Abbey East electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clashard, Farmhill, Lindsay's Farm, Liss

Placenames

Chapelfield 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.