Garryncallaha

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garryncallaha, from 185 m² to 684,267 m² (68.43 ha, 169.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Garryncallaha 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Garryncallaha in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Special Protection Area: Corofin Wetlands SPA 004220
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL017-094001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on the N-facing slope of an NE-SW ridge, c. 100m from the E shore of Lough Cullaun, flanked by marshy ground to the W and N. Indicated on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). Westropp (1915, 271-2) described the enclosure, remarking on the incorporation of large water-worn boulders into its fabric, and noting that prior to the drainage of the Lough Cullaun, ‘the fort was washed by the lake, the garth raised some 4 feet [c. 1.2m] higher than the field’. A large suboval-shaped enclosure (int. diams. 93-8m E-W; 84m N-S) is defined by a partially collapsed and overgrown, double-faced drystone wall (Wth 1.2-8m; H 0.4-1.8m) with some surviving evidence of a batter on the outer wallface. The wall is best preserved along the NW (ext. H 1.8m; Wth 1.8m), while along the NE, it has been reduced to the outer wall-face resting on a collapsed stone spread (Wth 3m; H 1m). The enclosing line from SW-W-NW forms the townland boundary with Kells. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.2m) at E. The interior contains a church (CL017-094002-) and a graveyard (CL017-094003-), and a souterrain (CL017-094004-) is located immediately SE of the entrance. Internal divisions within the enclosure are visible as low grass-covered stony banks (Wth 1-1.4m; H c. 0.3m). A rectangular structure (int. dims. L 15.7m E-W; Wth 6.5m N-S) in the W sector is defined by grassed over double-faced stone wall footings.    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell    Date of upload: 21-10-2025

• CL017-094002 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (CL017-094003-) at the centre of a large early ecclesiastical enclosure (CL017-094001-). Indicated and labelled ‘Templemore Church in ruins’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Known locally as ‘Templemoore’ or ‘Moor’ or ‘Kells’ church (Westropp 1915, 272). A heavily overgrown and partially collapsed rectangular structure (ext. dims. L 22.5m E-W; Wth 9m N-S) is orientated ENE-WSW. Most of the S wall (H 3.8m) and N wall (H 3m) survive intact, as does the lower portion of the W gable wall (H 1.5m). An early 19th-century burial vault abuts the remains of the E gable wall. There is a round-headed, single light window at the E end of the S wall (Wth 0.18m; H 1.55m) and a partially blocked early, trabeate doorway (Wth 0.6m; H 1.4m) is located slightly off centre in the W gable wall A souterrain (CL017-094004-) lies c. 45m to the ESE.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 21-10-2025

• CL017-094003 Graveyard
  Description

  At the centre of a large early ecclesiastical enclosure (CL017-094001-). Marked and labelled ‘Graveyard’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1915, 272) suggested that the graveyard wall was built with stone robbed out from the ecclesiastical enclosure wall. A rectangular graveyard (int. dims. L 35m E-W; Wth 30m N-S) is defined by a mortared stone wall (H c. 1.2m) and is accessed through a gate at the S end of the E wall leading from a gap in the ecclesiastical enclosure wall outside. A ruined church (CL017-094002-) stands at the centre and, in 1999, the legible gravemarkers dated from c. 1890 to 1990. A souterrain (CL017-094004-) is located c. 25m to the SE.    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 21-10-2025

• CL017-094004 Souterrain
  Description

  In the SE sector of a large early ecclesiastical enclosure (CL017-094001-). Westropp (1915, 272) noted: ‘two holes in the field [near the entrance] mark a souterrain’, adding ‘I am told that, when it was excavated long since by Col. Marcus Paterson, of Clifden, and Mr. Robert Foster, of Rinroe, it was traced under the ring [of the ecclesiastical enclosure] into the garth, but no antiquities were discovered’.  No surface trace was visible when inspected in 1999, the area being overgrown with bushes and with only some loose stones visible. A graveyard (CL017-094003-) containing a church (CL017-094002-) is located c. 25m to the NW.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 21-10-2025

Architectural heritage

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

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 Garryncallaha, 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 Garryncallaha.

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 Garryncallaha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Garryncallaha · Garraí an Chalaidh

Area

435,535 m² (43.55 ha, 107.62 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Corrofin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,362 people lived in 535 households in the Corrofin electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kells, Rinroe, Turkenagh

Placenames

Garryncallaha 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.