Headford

442 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Headford, from 2 m² to 77,286 m² (7.73 ha, 19.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 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.

• R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 258 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 126 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (Phase 1) (New/proposed residential)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Residential (Phase 2) (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Business & Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

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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 Headford.

Recorded monuments

• GA041-032 Forge
  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.

• GA042-146 Windmill
  Description

  On a knoll is gently undulating grassland. A circular three-storey windmill (D c. 3.7m, H 7.9m), in dangerous structural condition, with a slight base-batter. It has totally collapsed from W to N. The doorway is at S with rectangular windows above it on 1st and 2nd floors. Traces of windows also survive on the upper floors at 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

• GA042-147 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  In level grassland, formerly part of the demesne land of Headford Castle (GA042-021001-), a 19th-C mansion. A small circular enclosure (D 3.4m) defined by a low rounded bank. Possibly a circular house but it could also be a landscape feature associated with the mansion. 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

• GA042-228 Road - road/trackway
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, convent/nunnery, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached convent, built c.1910, comprising two-storey entrance block having five-bay first floor and three-bay ground floor, latter having single-storey canted-bay windows to front flanking gabled shallow entrance breakfront. Deeper gabled respond to breakfront in rear having four bays and sprocketed roof. Three flat-roofed blocks to rear of entrance block. Three-bay chapel attached to east end projects forward slightly. Multiple-bay two-storey block at right angles to rear of entrance block and chapel. Sprocketed pitched slate roofs, chapel projection being under sprocketing of main roof. Brick chimneystacks, rendered at base, and with render cross finial to gable of chapel and metal cross finial to breakfront. Rendered façade to entrance block, having limestone sill course to first floor, and tile cladding to upper part of west gable. Square-headed four-over-four pane windows to first floor, and replacement uPVC to ground floor. Entrance doorway comprises square-headed door opening and sidelights having moulded cornice and with blank round-headed fanlight above, with replacement uPVC fittings. Retaining arch of rusticated stone to first floor window of west gable of entrance block. Chapel has round-headed lancet windows and three-light east window.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted cruciform-plan ashlar limestone-built Gothic-Revival Roman Catholic church, dated 1865, having three-bay long elevations to nave, single-bay transepts and chancel, and shallow sanctuary. Steeply pitched slate roof with stone copings, kneelers having gabled ends and trefoil finials atop corbels, bellcote to west gable, and cross finials to gables. Walls of rusticated ashlar stone, with buttresses flanking entrance doorway in west gable and incorporating holy water stoups. Diagonal buttresses to corners of chancel and sanctuary. Pointed arch window openings throughout, double-light to nave, transepts and to side walls of chancel, triple-light to east wall of chancel flanking sanctuary and east window of sanctuary being five-light with tracery and hexafoil light above. All windows have cut limestone surrounds and trefoil-headed lights with stained glass. Rusticated voussoirs to all openings, east window also having hood-moulding with simple block stops. Triple-light window to gable-front with elaborate tracery and set within pointed arch recess having ashlar surround to opening proper. Pointed arch doorway with carved stone surround and hood-moulding, and double-leaf timber battened door with step. Interior has very fine vaulted timber roof structure, with elaborate marble reredos, marble altar and side altars, and round-plan piers to transepts supporting pointed arches. Octagonal-plan gate piers having plinths, moulded string courses and caps and supporting double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate, set within ashlar limestone walls having chamfered copings rising towards gateway and stretch of walling each side is terminated by similar octagonal piers, in turn flanked by stretches of walling terminating in simpler octagonal-plan piers.

• Public house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end of row five-bay single-storey public house, built c.1800, having pitched and flat-roofed additions to rear. Pitched thatched roof with rendered copings to gables, and low rendered chimneystacks. Whitewashed rendered walls. Square-headed openings with replacement timber windows and timber battened door and glazed timber door, former with plain overlight.

• Bank/financial institution, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end of terrace two-storey bank, built c.1900, now in use as offices and presenting seven bays to main elevation and two bays to side street, with chamfered one-bay corner. Pitched slate roof, hipped to short elevation, and having rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls to first floor and channelled render to ground floor, with continuous fascia, top edge being sill course to first floor windows and bottom edge being string course linking to keeystones of ground floor window openings. Round-headed windows to ground floor set within round-headed recesses reaching to ground, and square-headed window openings to first floor, all having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed doorway to corner set within round-headed render surround comprising pilasters with brackets and cornices supporting round-headed pediment. Two further round-headed doorways to long elevation set into round-headed recess, with timber panelled doors, that to corner approached by flight of limestone steps.

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 Headford, 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 Headford.

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

Name

Headford · Áth Cinn

Area

843,677 m² (84.37 ha, 208.48 acres)

Civil parish

Killursa, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Headford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,864 people lived in 695 households in the Headford electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakillew, Balrickard, Cordarragh, Cuilleen, Deerpark, Ellagh, Gortnamona, Kilmurry, Lettera or Crossaun, Pollacullaire

Placenames

Headford 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.