Ardfintan

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardfintan, from 2,427 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 117,642 m² (11.76 ha, 29.07 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 Ardfintan 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.

• 18 Oct 2023Conditional

  construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system & a garage/shed

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361245

• 25 Jan 2023Refused

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed.Gross floor space of proposed works 317.00sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360040

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rostaff Turlough 000385

Recorded monuments

• GA041-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in grassland. Oval ringfort (N-S c. 45m, E-W c. 25m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone which is overlain by a field wall from N to SE. No visible surface trace survives from SE through S to SW. Within the interior is a probable souterrain (GA041-001001-) and a CBG (GA041-001002-) is associated. (O'Flanagan L, 163) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA041-001001 Souterrain
  Description

  In E sector of a ringfort (GA041-001----). Local tradition of a 'cave' of which no visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA041-001002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA041-001----). According to local tradition, there was a 'lisín' here but no visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA041-002 Enclosure
  Description

  In grassland, on SW-facing slope. A very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (N-S c. 62m) defined by a very low bank, best preserved from N through E to SE. A gap at NW may be original. A field wall cuts the monument at NW and SE, and a section to W of this has been almost levelled. The garden of an adjacent bungalow also intrudes at SE. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 163) record the tradition that St Fursa's father lived in 'a stone fort or caher' in this td.; this may refer to this monument or the ringfort (GA041-001-) c. 250m to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA041-003 Font (present location)
  Description

  Presently located in the yard of a farmhouse, this lugged font (max. base Wth 0.38m; Wth at top 0.46m; H 0.35m) may have been originally located at ‘Ross Abbey’ (GA041-047----), which lies c. 670m to the NNW. Only the bowl (base Wth 0.1-0.28m; Wth at top 0.3m; D 0.28m)survives. It was fashioned out of a single block of limestone which is now in three fragments as a result of shattering during a spell of severe frosts. See GA041-047005- for possible original location. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 July 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ardfintan, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ardfintan · Ard Fhiontain

Area

715,336 m² (71.53 ha, 176.76 acres)

Civil parish

Killursa, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killursa, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,135 people lived in 397 households in the Killursa electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cordarragh, Kildaree, Moyne (Co. Mayo), Ower, Ross

Placenames

Ardfintan 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.