Queensfort

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Queensfort, from 101 m² to 124,064 m² (12.41 ha, 30.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Queensfort 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.

• 24 May 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a replacement spectator stand and the retention of foundation works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23212

• 15 Feb 2021Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 202 sqm, Garage 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21174

• 8 Feb 2019Conditional

  to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling House - 277.8 sqm; Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19170

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 Queensfort.

Recorded monuments

• GA030-110 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hillock in otherwise level grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 47m) cut a field wall at NW and NE. It is defined by a scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank, but no visible surface trace survives to N of the wall. An enclosure (GA030-111----) lies immediately to E. 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

• GA030-111 Enclosure
  Description

  Immediately E of a ringfort (GA030-110----). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931) as N half of a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA030-112 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 37m) defined by a bank which survives from NNE through E to SSW. A field bank overlies the enclosing element at N. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at W. Either of two gaps at NE and SE could be original. 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

• GA030-113 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Subcircular ringfort (E-W 40.3m, N-S 34m), in fair condition, defined by a stone-faces bank and intervening fosse with traces of a possible outer bank at S. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at NE and SW. A field wall overlies the enclosing elements at S. 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

• GA030-114 Designed landscape - ornamental lake
  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.

• GA030-115 Country house
  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

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

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 Queensfort, 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 Queensfort.

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

Name

Queensfort · Ráth na Manraí

Area

1,090,140 m² (109.01 ha, 269.38 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Killeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

734 people lived in 245 households in the Killeen electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Beagh (Browne), Beagh (Donnellan), Beaghbaun, Drinaun, Glen, Joycegrove, Killeen, Killeenan More, Rahogarty North

Placenames

Queensfort 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.