Fairfield

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fairfield, from 342 m² to 119,791 m² (11.98 ha, 29.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

• C2.1Business & Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Nov 2018Conditional

  for construction of Warehousing unit to consist of wholesale, distribution with display area, storage, ancillary rooms together with sewage treatment system and all associated site development works with entrance through existing tyre centre. Gross floor space of proposed works: 925.1 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181673

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 Fairfield.

Recorded monuments

• GA105-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pastureland. Circular rath (diam. 51.6m), in fair condition, defined by three banks and two intervening fosses best preserved at NW. From a distance the monument looks like a three-tiered structure and the interior is raised above the level of the banks. The inner bank is visible from NW to NNW and from SSE to SSW; a scarp forms the enclosing element from NNW to NE, otherwise no visible surface trace survives. Both fosses and the middle bank are evident all round. The outer bank survives intermittently from S to NW but is visible from NW to N and from NNE to ENE. A gap (Wth 2.3m) in the middle bank may be original. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Fairfield, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1048 (ZIP).

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

Name

Fairfield · An Gort Fionn

Area

590,631 m² (59.06 ha, 145.95 acres)

Civil parish

Loughrea, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Loughrea Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

898 people lived in 307 households in the Loughrea Rural electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carn, Gorteenapheebera, Greeneenagh, Kincullia, Lisduff, Moyleen

Placenames

Fairfield 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.