Caltra

134 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caltra, from 33 m² to 210,525 m² (21.05 ha, 52.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 70 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 Caltra 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 May 2026Conditional

  of porch to front of dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660773

• 27 Mar 2026Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and a garage with treatment plant and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660470

• 7 Nov 2025Conditional

  for revised elevations including alteration to roof height from those previously granted under Planning Reference PD2461058, together with all associated site development and ancillary works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561636

• 5 Nov 2025Refused

  to complete a masterplan of 6 dwelling houses in addition to two dwellings granted under planning reference no. 06/612 and planning reference no. 25/60122, with individual wastewater treatment plants, including the provision of a shared surface road which contains variations from planning reference no. 25/60122, the site entrance to the development remains as per planning reference no. 25/60122 and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561612

• 6 Feb 2025Conditional

  to complete the construction of two dwelling houses, originally granted under planning reference no. 06/612, including newly proposed individual wastewater treatment plants and all associated services including roadways, footpaths and site services. Application also to include provisions for future further development of additional units

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560122

• 15 Aug 2024Conditional

  for the following: A) Demolition of rear extension, chimneys to main roof & bay window to side of existing dwelling house. B) Alterations to front elevation including removing front door and replacing with proposed window. C) Construction of rear extensions to existing dwelling house. D) Septic tank upgrade to proposed proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed work: 155.88 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 40.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461058

• 12 Apr 2023Refused

  of a replacement effluent treatment plant and a replacement percolation area

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360371

• 5 Jul 2022Conditional

  for change of house type from that previously granted planning permission under planning reference 17/1861. Gross floor space of proposed works: 115.56 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22854

• 1 Jul 2022Conditional

  for 1) Alterations and rear extension to existing dwelling house, 2) upgrade of existing wastewater treatment system , 3) removal of existing fuel store and provision of a new domestic garage, along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 218 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage). Gross floor space of any demolition: 33 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22840

• 19 Jan 2022N/a

  for the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached domestic garage, boundary fence, entrance gates, proprietary wastewater treatment system, percolation area & all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 180 sqm, Garage: 47 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2231

• 10 Sept 2020Conditional

  for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment system, along with all associated works: Gross floor space of proposed works: H: 217.4 sqm, G: 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201284

• 21 May 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of a garage conversion and house extension, energy efficiency upgrade and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 42.1 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 225.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20616

• 21 Nov 2019Conditional

  for slight alterations to plans granted under planning reference number 19/149. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 171.21 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191807

• 5 Feb 2019Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage / fuel store with wastewater treatment plant percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 307.54 sqm, Garage - 59.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19149

• 3 Aug 2018Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed to include concrete apron and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works (slatted shed) 199.09 sqm. (concrete apron) 210 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181115

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling, entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works (gross floor space 199.8sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171861

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 Caltra.

Recorded monuments

• GA060-024 Enclosure
  Description

  On level pastureland. A fairly well-preserved oval enclosure (NE-SW 43m, NW-SE 28m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Traces of stone-facing are visible on the outer bank which is overlain from N to E by a modern field wall. Gaps in both banks and a causeway over the fosse at NNE suggest that this was the original entrance. 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

• GA060-025 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a hillock in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 34m, N-S 29m) defined by a degraded scarp and external fosse. 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

• GA060-026001 Religious house - unclassified
  Description

  On level pastureland which is subject to seasonal flooding. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as the site of a 'Nunnery'. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 242) record that here 'stands a small portion of a wall said to have belonged to a nunnery. The extent of the edifice of which this is a remnant, appears from the vestiges of the foundation as yet traceable, to have been 15 yards by 8 yards [13.7m by 7.3m]'. No visible surface trace survives. Possibly part of the friary (GA060-027002-) of Caltra, the probable site of which lies in the village, 1.25km to SW: the OS Letters (ibid.), considered it likely that this was 'a small chapel belonging to the establishment'. A CBG (GA060-026002-) and an enclosure (GA060-026003-) are associated. 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

• GA060-026002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Associated with a 'Nunnery' (GA066-026001-). According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 242), 'children are interred in the space included within these vestiges [i.e. of a possible chapel]'. What is visible is a low rectangular platform (E-W 15.5m, N-S 14m, H 0.5m) enclosed by a mortared stone wall (Wth 0.6m, H 2m max.). There is a gateway at W end of S wall, and an earthen field bank runs N-S from its E side. Within the overgrown and partially rubble-filled interior, numerous set stones are visible indicating graves oriented E-W. There is is one simple gravestone at W end, dated 1871. 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

• GA060-026003 Enclosure
  Description

  Immediately N of a CBG (GA060-026002-). All that survives are faint traces of an almost totally levelled oval enclosure (N-S 49.5m, E-W 38.5m). This is defined from W through N to S by a low scarp, outside of which, from N to S, are slight traces of a very shallow fosse. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A modern field fence and drain, running E-W, cut the monument in half: the S part of the interior is further subdivided by an earthen boundary which runs off it at right angles. 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

• GA060-027 Graveyard
  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.

• GA060-027001 Church
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic Church, built c.1840, having six-bay nave, side aisles added 1938-9, three-stage bell tower to west end of nave, entrance porch to north elevation, and late twentieth-century single-storey extension to north. Pitched natural slate roof, stone copings to gables, skew corbels to west, later parapets to side aisles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered and painted walls with projecting rendered plinth. Leaded stained-glass lancet windows with painted stone sills, painted stone limestone label-moulding above second stage window of tower. Pointed-arch doorway to tower with square-headed double-leaf timber entrance door with fanlight and painted stone label-moulding, flanked by square-headed slit windows. Gable-fronted third stage to bell tower, each stage receding, with three square-headed vented openings to each face with stone copings surmounted by stone crosses. In interior side aisles separated from nave by pointed-arch arcade supported on octagonal columns with octagonal capitals. Timber panelled choir balcony above narthex, accessed by cast-iron spiral staircase, with late twentieth-century timber screen below. Mosaic tiled central aisle and entrance porch. Pointed-arch leaded stained-glass window above marble altar and altar rails. Plastered ceiling with timber edge decorative panels. Set on roadside with graveyard to south and east, rendered boundary wall to west and random rubble limestone boundary wall to north. Single-storey boiler house to rear. The above description is derived from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage website at the following url. http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA&regno=30406004 Date of upload: 25 June 2013

• GA060-027002 Religious house - Carmelite friars
  Description

  On roadside on NE outskirts of Caltra village. Probably the site of the friary of 'Caltra' or 'Kaltraghne-Pallice', a house of Carmelite friars founded by the Berminghams, barons of Athenry, c. 1320. Apparently dissolved by 1589 but listed, c. 1737, as one of the convents which had been restored (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 288). Archdall (quoted in O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 241) records that is was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. According to OS Letters (ibid., 240-41), 'there was a nunnery ... at Caltra village ... where the parish chapel is now. The wall of the chapel attached to which lies the old burying ground of Caltra, belonged ... originally to the nunnery, which was called Mainisteair na Cealtraighe'. This is probably the site named but not clearly marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as 'Grave Yard', alongside which the words 'RC Chapel' and 'Vault' also appear. The site is now occupied by a modern RC church (built 1938-9) and graveyard, and no visible surface trace survives. See also GA060-026001- and GA060-129----. A number of architectural fragments, including pieces of tracery and a window-head from an ogee window, have been recorded from the graveyard (GA060-027----): these undoubtedly came from the friary (pers. comm. M. Mannion). (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). In this instance the entry has been revised in light of recent research. Date of upload: 25 June 2013

• GA060-029 Quarry
  Description

  In flat pastueland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a shallow hollow, probably a disused sand or gravel pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 July 2014

• GA060-031 Quarry
  Description

  On top of a hill in pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused and overgrown gravel pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 July 2014

• GA060-032 Quarry
  Description

  In grassland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be an overgrown hollow, probably a disused sand or gravel pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 July 2014

• GA060-033 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be an overgrown irregular hollow, probably a disused sand or gravel pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 July 2014

• GA060-034 Quarry
  Description

  On a slight rise in pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a hollow, probably a disused sand or gravel pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 July 2014

• GA060-035 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland. A small hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a roughly circular overgrown hollow, probably a disused sand or gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 March 2015

Architectural heritage

• Saint Solan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic Church, built c.1840, having six-bay nave, side aisles added 1938-9, three-stage bell tower to west end of nave, entrance porch to north elevation, and late twentieth-century single-storey extension to north. Pitched natural slate roof, stone copings to gables, skew corbels to west, later parapets to side aisles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered and painted walls with projecting rendered plinth. Leaded stained-glass lancet windows with painted stone sills, painted stone limestone label-moulding above second stage window of tower. Pointed-arch doorway to tower with square-headed double-leaf timber entrance door with fanlight and painted stone label-moulding, flanked by square-headed slit windows. Gable-fronted third stage to bell tower, each stage receding, with three square-headed vented openings to each face with stone copings surmounted by stone crosses. In interior side aisles separated from nave by pointed-arch arcade supported on octagonal columns with octagonal capitals. Timber panelled choir balcony above narthex, accessed by cast-iron spiral staircase, with late twentieth-century timber screen below. Mosaic tiled central aisle and entrance porch. Pointed-arch leaded stained-glass window above marble altar and altar rails. Plastered ceiling with timber edge decorative panels. Set on roadside with graveyard to south and east, rendered boundary wall to west and random rubble limestone boundary wall to north. Single-storey boiler house to rear.

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 5 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 Caltra.

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

Name

Caltra · An Chealtrach

Area

2,634,814 m² (263.48 ha, 651.08 acres)

Civil parish

Killosolan, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Caltra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Caltra electoral division: 380 people in 144 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belderny South, Caltrapallas, Cartron, Eskerballycahill, Glebe, Graiguenavaddoge, Greenville, Killosolan, Kinclare, Lislea, Lisnagree

Placenames

Caltra 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.