Furzypark

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Furzypark, from 228 m² to 243,386 m² (24.34 ha, 60.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Furzypark 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.

• 22 Aug 2019Conditional

  for (A) Construction of a building to the rear of the school to accommodate a multipurpose room / activity room and auxillary rooms (B) Installation of a temporary building (portacabin) until new building is constructed (C) All associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 113.4 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191308

• 14 Feb 2018Unconditional

  for the construction of a 2 storey dwellinghouse, garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site works (gross floor space 251sqm) Previous Planning Ref No. 13/110

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 18154

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 Furzypark.

Recorded monuments

• GA114-072 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a rise in level pastureland. This well-preserved circular ring-barrow (diam. 45.7m) comprises a low flat-topped mound (diam. 21.3m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. McCaffrey (1952, 26, 283, no. 9; 1955, 223) referred to a stone-lined ‘trough’ or ‘passage’ (L c. 3m; Wth/H c. 0.2m) in the NW quadrant, which led towards the centre of the barrow. It was built of drystone walling and roofed with lintels. A similar ‘passage’ lay to the N. No visible surface trace of these features was noted. A number of trees have been planted all over the monument and numerous rabbit burrows are evident. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 August 2019

• GA114-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 283, no. 9a) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 84.8m ext.) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter was evident only around W half of the monument. No visible surface trace survives. A souterrain (GA114-073001-) lay within the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 December 2017

• GA114-073001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within a rath (GA114-073----). During the course of land reclamation in 1976 a bulldozer removed a roof lintel from this souterrain; it was subsequently investigated by Prof. E. Rynne (pers. comm.). The two-chambered drystone-built souterrain (L c. 28.5m) was well preserved and roughly L-shaped in plan. The 1st chamber (L c. 19m; Wth 1.9m; H 1.5m) runs NW-SE. Access was gained to it near its NW end. The 2nd chamber (L 9.5m) extended from the N end of the E side-wall and ran ENE-WSW. Alcoves were evident at NW end of the 1st chamber at the NE end of the 2nd one. The souterrain has been filled in and a slight depression now marks its location. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Furzypark, 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 Furzypark.

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

Name

Furzypark · Páirc na hAitinne

Area

818,364 m² (81.84 ha, 202.22 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Ardrahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

612 people lived in 201 households in the Ardrahan electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboy, Ballyglass East, Fiddaun, Lackan, Moneen East, Moneen West, Rathbaun, Shantallow

Placenames

Furzypark 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.