Wellpark

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Wellpark, from 725 m² to 140,483 m² (14.05 ha, 34.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Wellpark 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.

• 14 Jul 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661187

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA126-038001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Wellpark, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Wellpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Wellpark · Páirc an Tobair

Area

236,952 m² (23.7 ha, 58.55 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Abbeyville, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolfin, Easterfield, Lackan

Placenames

Wellpark 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.