Caltraghduff

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caltraghduff, from 29 m² to 227,181 m² (22.72 ha, 56.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Caltraghduff 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 Apr 2025Conditional

  for dwelling house as constructed, domestic garage, fuel store, planning permission for alterations for elevations of existing house, for the change of use of domestic garage to granny flat and for replacing of existing septic tank with a new waste water treatment system/polishing filter; all on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of proposed works: 8.50 sqm(garage), 51.5 sqm(extension), 156 sqm(house)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2585

• 27 Jun 2019Conditional

  to construct a new bell-mouth entrance onto the public road to facilitate access to existing forestry plantation and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19978

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 Caltraghduff.

Recorded monuments

• GA047-013002 Quarry
  Description

  In flat low-lying pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 July 2014

• GA047-013003 Well
  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 Caltraghduff.

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 Caltraghduff, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caltraghduff.

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

Name

Caltraghduff · An Chealtrach Dhubh

Area

1,421,289 m² (142.13 ha, 351.21 acres)

Civil parish

Taghboy, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Taghboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

229 people lived in 76 households in the Taghboy electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derryfadda, Gowla, Killaderry, Muckloon

Placenames

Caltraghduff 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.