Fough West

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fough West, from 7 m² to 7,910 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 30 Jan 2025Conditional

  for alterations to extension of existing dwelling house and garage, alterations to existing granny flat all on revised site boundaries. Permission for a new sewage treatment plant and percolation area within the new revised site boundaries, discontinuation of northern access/entrance to the site as previously granted and the use of the existing southern site entrance as the main access to the site and all ancillary works. Previous planning reference numbers 16/313 and 17/20

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560085

• 6 Dec 2024Conditional

  for an extension and alterations to existing dwelling house and for garage/shed with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 79.20 sqm(extension), 35.50 sqm(garage) & 131.20 sqm(house)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461666

• 21 Jun 2024Conditional

  for dwelling house with all associated works and ancillary services. A Natura Impact Statement for the proposed development will be submitted with this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 245 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460760

• 28 Mar 2024Conditional

  for dwelling house and shed on revised site boundaries and permission for alterations to dwelling house with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 103 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 28.20 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460345

• 8 Apr 2022Conditional

  of the change of use of the first floor office and hairdressers to residential use and alterations to yard and roof over the yard with all associated works and ancillary services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2260327

• 23 Aug 2021Refused

  The proposed development will consist of the provision of a total of 61 No. Dwellings as follows - 4 No. 2 Bed Single Storey Units, 16 No. 2 Bed Two Storey Units, 33 No. 3 Bed Two Storey Units and 8 No. 4 Bed Two Storey Units. The development will also include surface car parking, bicycle parking and bike shelters, waste water pumping station, SuDs drainage systems, landscaping and open space including a playground, new boundary treatments, a new vehicular access onto Carrowmanagh Road; and all other associated works above and below ground. The development consists of a Gross floor area 6,110 sqm. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) accompanies this Planning application.

  Permission, 61 homes · Galway County Council, 211530

• 3 Mar 2021Conditional

  for an extension and alterations to existing dwelling house with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: Extension: 60.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21278

• 15 Nov 2019Conditional

  for a dwelling house with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 156.0 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191782

• 15 Nov 2018Conditional

  for change of use from retail unit to apartment. Gross floor space of proposed works: 68.275sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181626

• 6 Nov 2018Conditional

  of change of use from ground floor shop, storage area and beauty and hair salon to 2 no. ground floor apartments. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 68 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 181574

• 9 Aug 2018Conditional

  for the erection of a rear extension to an existing dwelling dwelling house. Gross floor space of existing building 74sqm, Gross floor space of proposed works 82sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181131

• 27 Apr 2018Conditional

  for change of flat roof to gable end pitched type and front elevations alterations as constructed with all associated works and ancillary services.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18538

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

Recorded monuments

• GA054-005 Town
  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.

• GA054-031 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Between Main St, Oughterard, to S and Owenriff River to N. This well was indicated on 1st ed. of OS but was evidently gone by time of 2nd ed. (1899), when the words 'Site of' were appended. No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA054-032 Church
  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

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with slightly higher two-bay two-storey addition to south, lean-to extension parallel to rear with corrugated-iron roof and rendered walls, and more recent lean-to extension to rear of addition. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs with render copings to gables, rendered chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with render quoins to end corners. Square-headed window openings having raised render reveals, concrete and stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window, with fixed four-pane timber casement windows to first floor of addition. Square-headed door opening with raised render reveal and replacement timber glazed door. Rendered ballustraded enclosing wall to front having render coping and gate piers. Yard to rear of house, with metal gate to east side. Projecting chimneybreast of former house to north.

• Oughterard Library, court house, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey court house, built c.1835, now also in use as library, having recessed single-bay flat-roof porches to ends and slightly advanced end bays. Hipped slate roof, red brick chimneystack with render coping, cast-iron rainwater goods with tooled limestone corbels to frieze with render course below. Tooled limestone cornice above render frieze to porches. Rendered walls, with tooled channelled limestone to ground floor of end bays. Tooled limestone sill course to first floor, wrapping around end walls of main block. Square-headed openings to first floor front and rear, having carved limestone surrounds to front with frieze and cornice, and six-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows. Camber-headed openings to ground floor of end bays with tooled limestone sills, recessed limestone reveals and voussoirs and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Recessed blind square-headed openings to middle bays of ground floor flanking window with with limestone sill and fixed four-pane timber window. Square-headed window openings to rear of porches having tooled limestone sills and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Blind round-headed opening to east side of porch having tooled limestone sill. Round-headed opening to west porch having spoked fanlight over sill course. Blocked square-headed half-basement window opening to west porch having tooled limestone surround. Square-headed door openings to fron of porches having tooled limestone surrounds comprising pilasters and frieze, with scroll brackets supporting pediment, and having replacement timber panelled door with side panel and overlight to east porch and timber panelled double-leaf door to west porch with flagstone approach. Forecourt to front with coursed rubble plinth wall and dressed coursed limestone piers with pyramidal caps, and decotaive cast-iron railings and gates.

• Kilcummin Church, church/chapel, 1805–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland Church, built 1808, comprising original Board of First Fruits two-bay nave and three-stage tower to west, and later chancel, vestry and transepts of 1852. Recent lean-to boiler house addition to south transept. Pitched slate roofs having stone copings to gables, cast-iron rainwater goods, decorative ridge tiles to later part of building, with rendered crenellations to limestone parapet of tower. Rendered walls to original building with tooled limestone string courses separating stages of tower. Clock face with tooled limestone label-moulding to north side of second stage. Later part of building has exposed rubble limestone walls built to courses, with rubble stone buttresses to corners having tooled limestone capping and quoins, tooled limestone string course to lower gables of transepts doubling as label-moulding. Pointed-arch window openings with tooled and chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds and sills with lead-lined stained-glass windows, double-light to nave and west sides of transepts, traceried four-light to transept gables and traceried five-light to chancel east window. Double-light latticed stained-glass window to east elevation of vestry and replacement timber windows to south. Pointed-arch openings to top stage of tower with timber louvres, trefoil-headed opening to west elevation of bottom stage having replacement window. Pointed-arch door openings to tower and gable of north transept with tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds, replacement single- and double-leaf doors, with limestone steps. Tooled and cut limestone doorway to vestry, with tooled threshold and steps and replacement timber door. Painted rendered roof to interior of nave with trussed timber arch-braced king-post roof to transepts. Rendered chancel arch, timber altar and carved timber pulpit. Timber pews to nave and transepts, and timber and metal organ and marble wall plaques. Church located towards west end of small graveyard within crenellated rubble stone enclosing wall with tooled limestone gate piers and decorative cast-iron gates.

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 Fough West, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_331 (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 Fough West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Fough West · An Fhuathach Thiar

Area

85,192 m² (8.52 ha, 21.05 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Canrawer West, Carrowmanagh, Cregg, Fough East, Ordnance Ground

Placenames

Fough West 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.