Foats or Levallynearl

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foats or Levallynearl, from 11 m² to 188,603 m² (18.86 ha, 46.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Foats or Levallynearl 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.

• 15 Feb 2026Conditional

  to sow native trees along river bank, mechanical raking and loosening of existing gravel substrate to improve spawning/riparian habitat for salmonids

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660234

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  of: (1) extensions to rear of existing approved dwelling house and granny flat, (2) change of use from approved dwelling house and granny flat to a Community dwelling house including all associated site works/services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 37.02 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221258

• 20 May 2022Refused

  to replace a 12m high wooden pole with an 18m high telecommunications monopole together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22649

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  to develop a Climate Action Park at Foats / Levallynearl, Aughrim, Ballinasloe, Co Galway. The development will result in the creation of approximately 1,600 metres of pathways through an existing 1.7 hectare grassland site: the signposting of points of ecological, spiritual and archeological significance: the planting of carbon-sequestering trees, shrubs, hedgerows, wildflowers, bulbs and grasses and the introduction of picnic tables, benches and bins. Works will be in close proximity to but will not interfere with National Monument GA087-67 [Abbey of St. Conall / Religious House - Augustinian Canons]

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21694

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 Foats or Levallynearl.

Recorded monuments

• GA087-067 Religious house - Augustinian canons
  Description

  On a low ridge on NE outskirts of Aughrim village. There was an early monastery at Aughrim (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 158) which 'Colgan supposes to have been built by St. Conall' (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 565). This may be one and the same as the 'Abbey' marked on OS 6-inch maps, though the name itself probably refers to the priory of Augustinian canons founded in the late 12th or early 13th C (Egan 1960, 29; Gwynn and Hadcock ibid.). On 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map, it is marked as a small circular area defined by a broken line but by the time of 3rd ed. (1946), a cross-symbol appears. Apart from an area of uneven ground to W of the 19th-C C of I church and rectory, no visible surface trace survives. The latter buildings may, in fact, occupy part of the site (but see GA087-053001-). A castle (GA087-055----) lies 195m to NW. (ASGAP 171:13; Nolan 1901b, 123) 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

• GA087-067001 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.

• GA087-067002 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

• GA087-068 School
  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

• Holy Trinity Church (Aughrim), church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, dated 1817, of limestone, with square-profile three-stage entrance tower with spire to west elevation, and full-height chancel and transepts, with flat-roofed vestry to chancel. Pitched slate roofs with corbelled carved stone pinnacles to gables, cut-stone octagonal-profile spire with ribs and pinnacled crenellated parapet to tower. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked dressed stone walls with pinnacled stepped canted corner buttresses to transepts. West face of tower has oculus opening to top stage with cut-stone hood-moulding and corbelled sill, middle stage has pointed arch traceried three-light window opening and bottom stage has square-headed triple window with pointed lights. Paired pointed arch openings to sides of top stage of tower, with timber louvres. Tudor-arch window opening to north side of bottom stage of tower with fixed timber window with cut-stone sill. Tudor-arch door opening to south side of tower with chamfered stone surround, stone threshold, and recent timber battened door. Similar door opening to vestry. Interior has rendered ceiling, carved timber altar and backdrop, carved marble pulpit and lectern, timber pews, stained-glass windows and marble wall plaques. Brass lectern and altar rails. Carved limestone font dated 1760. Headstones, table tombs and box tombs, some earlier than the church, to site. Double-leaf cast-iron gate with cut-stone piers with domed caps, rubble stone boundary walls.

• The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1800–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan four-bay two-storey house with basement, built c.1820, eastmost bay being addition of c.1900 and extending for one bay beyond rear elevation of original house. Pedimented entrance porch to front (south) elevation and canted single-bay two-storey return to rear. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone plinth course. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Porch has tooled limestone front with cut-stone pediment, with square-headed replacement timber door having square-headed replacement uPVC sidelights. Rendered plinth walls to basement area, with cut-stone copings. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to yard at rear having hipped tiled roof, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed openings with timber louvered fittings, and segmental-arch vehicular openings to middle two bays. Double-leaf wrought-iron gate with square-profile cut-stone piers and rendered boundary walls to yard. Road entrance to west with wrought-iron double-leaf gate to octagonal-profile piers having imposts, plinths and domed caps, with rubble stone flanking walls.

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 Foats or Levallynearl, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Foats or Levallynearl.

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

Name

Foats or Levallynearl · Fóit nó Leathbhaile an Iarla

Area

911,724 m² (91.17 ha, 225.29 acres)

Civil parish

Aughrim, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Aughrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

576 people lived in 198 households in the Aughrim electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attidermot, Cloonameragaun, Coololla, Kilcommadan, Kinnaveelish, Urraghry

Placenames

Foats or Levallynearl 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.