Windfield

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windfield, from 113 m² to 126,962 m² (12.7 ha, 31.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 49 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Windfield 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.

• 1 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 214.07 sqm (H), 50.76 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24283

• 9 Mar 2022Conditional

  for change of house design to that granted under planning permission 19/964 and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 208.39sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22312

• 26 Jun 2019Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic /garage fuel store with wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 222.35 sqm, Garage - 59.50 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19964

• 27 Nov 2018Conditional

  to construct a new private dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, with wastewater treatment plant polishing filter and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 253.65 sqm (House - 194.15 sqm, Garage - 59.50 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181692

• 18 Sept 2018Refused

  to construct a new private dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store with wastewater treatment plant polishing filter and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 194.15sqm, Garage 59.5sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181314

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 Windfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Windfield.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Windfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Windfield · Tóin le Gaoith

Area

1,632,244 m² (163.22 ha, 403.34 acres)

Civil parish

Killian, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynakill electoral division: 647 people in 225 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynalahy, Cloonavihony, Newvillage, Rushestown, Summerhill, Tully, Woodbrook

Placenames

Windfield 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.