Fawnarevagh

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fawnarevagh, from 225 m² to 419,562 m² (41.96 ha, 103.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Fawnarevagh 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 Nov 2022Conditional

  for carrying out alterations to elevations of existing shed, including constructing new mono pitch roof to allow for change of use from existing shed/garage to a home gym and office.Gross floor space of any existing building(s) 65.84sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261159

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: Castletaylor Complex SAC 000242
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castletaylor Complex 000242

Recorded monuments

• GA104-134 Well
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA104-135 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough grazing land. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 47m) defined by a drystone wall. A field wall cuts through the monument at ENE and WSW. Another cashel (GA104-136----) lies c. 50m to the SW. (McCaffrey 1952, 229, no. 114) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 December 2017

• GA104-136 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Some 50m to the SW of another cashel (GA104-135----). Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 36m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall, much obscured by overgrowth. McCaffrey (1952, 229-30, no. 114a) noted a house site (GA104-137----) immediately to the E. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 December 2017

• GA104-137 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Immediately to the E of a cashel (GA104-136----). McCaffrey (1952, 229-230, no. 114a) noted this house site '45' [13.7m] x 50' [15.2m] overall'. The walls were '3' [0.9m] wide and 1'9" [1.9m] high.' No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Fawnarevagh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Fawnarevagh · Fána Riabhach

Area

1,151,885 m² (115.19 ha, 284.64 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolgan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Rahasane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

363 people lived in 121 households in the Rahasane electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherweelder, Carrowmaneen, Castletaylor North, Lavallyconor, Liskevin, Parkaloughan

Placenames

Fawnarevagh 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.