Cargin

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cargin, from 20 m² to 74,033 m² (7.4 ha, 18.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Cargin 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.

• 23 May 2023Conditional

  for a domestic garage/shed

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360543

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  for an extension to the rear of an existing dwelling house, a dormer window in the front roof slope, a garage, together with all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 61.4 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211928

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA055-027001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On a rise in grassland overlooking Lough Corrib to SW. Marked on 1s ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 70m) just S of td. boundary. All that survives is the arc of a collapsed grassed-over stony bank (L c. 20m) at NW, which is overlain by a curving but modern field wall. A church (GA055-027002-) lies within the interior, and Cargin castle (GA055-028----) stands 490m to SSW. 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

• GA055-027002 Church
  Description

  Located on a rise in pastureland, within the E half of an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA055-027001-), and overlooking Lough Corrib to the SW. According to the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 182-3), this church 'is believed to have been originally a chapel of ease, and not a parish church'. It consists of a ruinous medieval church (ext. dims. 12.25m E-W; 7.3m N-S; av. wall T 0.8m). When visited by the Survey in June 1984, apart from the S half of the W gable, it was densely overgrown with ivy. Where visible, the walls were built of mortared undressed regular large and small stone blocks. Coursing was evident at the lower levels but became more haphazard towards the centres and then more regular again towards the tops. Only the W gable wall survived intact. The E gable was missing its apex and the N and S side-walls had been reduced in height; the centre of the S wall just survived to a height of 1m. The only architectural features visible were a pointed arch doorway, with an internal hanging eye on its W side, near the W end of the S wall, and a tall single-light window (head missing) and an aumbry in the E gable. While the interior of the church was totally overgrown with trees and briars, some small ivy-covered stones evident towards its centre may have been grave-markers associated with a children’s burial ground (GA055-027003-). The ivy was subsequently removed from the church following a proposed graveyard clean up in 1988 (SMR file) but by 2004 it was heavily overgrown again (Halpin et al. 2004). On inspection then the remains of the E side of the base of a window were visible towards the E end of the S wall and a ‘carved head’ (see GA055-027007-) was noted on the upper SE corner (ibid., 20). Burials in the graveyard (GA055-027005-) immediately surrounding the church date from the early 19th century. (Alcock et al. 1999, 299) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 18 September 2020

• GA055-027003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Named ‘Children’s Burial Ground’ but not indicated on the 1838 or 1922 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. A search indicated that it was possibly located within the heavily overgrown interior of the church (GA055-027002-). Towards its centre, three/four small ivy-covered set stones (H <0.2m; Wth 0.16m; T 0.08m), aligned N-S, which could mark children's burials were noted. 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 certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 17 September 2020

• GA055-027004 Souterrain
  Description

  Indicated on the OS Fair Plan map within the NW quadrant of the ecclesiastical enclosure (GA055-027001-) associated with ‘Cargin Church’ (GA055-027002-) and named ‘Cave’ in Roman script. On inspection by the Galway Survey in July 1984 no visible surface trace of it was noted. According to local information, ‘a tunnel or souterrain’ led from the graveyard (GA055-027005-) to ‘Cargin Castle’ (GA055-028----) c. 490m to the SSW (Halpin et al. 2004, 7). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 18 September 2020

• GA055-027005 Graveyard
  Description

  This graveyard is to the S of the church (GA055-027002-). Most of the headstones date to the late 19th century. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 August 2016

• GA055-027006 Graveyard
  Description

  This is a modern 20th-century graveyard c. 30m to the SW of the church (GA055-027002-). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 August 2016

• GA055-027007 Exhibitionist figure
  Description

  This male exhibitionist figure, first recorded as a ‘carved head’ in 2004 (Halpin et al. 2004, 20), is located on the upper SE corner of a medieval church (GA055-027002-), which occupies the E half of an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA055-027001-). The figure bears a large head with furrowed brow, large eyes, small ears. Its tongue protrudes down over the lower lip of its open mouth. Beneath the head, on the lower part of the stone, two limbs extending back along it, bend at joints and then extend to the outer edge of the stone. The limbs may represent arms or legs and they terminate in rounded hands or feet. A phallus between the limbs extends to the chin on the head where it meets the protruding tongue. There is some damage at this part of the stone as well as to the right hand/foot (information from G. Dempsey and Dr C. Cunniffe received 26 June 2020). See https://skfb.ly/6Tz7D for a 3D model of the figure created by Digital Heritage Age. The attached images were provided by G. Dempsey. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 18 September 2020

• GA055-028 Castle - hall-house
  Description

  On a low knoll near E shore of Lough Corrib. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'William Gaynard' (Nolan 1901b, 118). It comprises a rectangular keep (L 11.1m, Wth 6.6m) with a small rectangular tower at E corner. Though probably of 13th-C date (Leask 1951, 156-7; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 304-5), it was extensively restored in 1970. It is now two storeys in height but Nolan (1901a, 29) mentions the existence of a third. The original doorway, at 1st-floor level towards S end of SW wall, is now reached by a modern flight of stone stairs. There is also a pointed arch doorway in NE wall on ground floor. At present the internal layout comprises a vaulted ground floor and a 'great hall' on 1st floor lit by five all windows. At NW end of the latter is an en-suite bedroom, surmounted by a gallery. An intramural staircase in NW wall connects the ground and 1st floors. Apart from the en-suit bedroom, the reconstruction appears to reflect the original layout, though the upper section of the walls, along with the roof and parapets, are modern work. Waterman (1956, 74-6) states that the vaulting is original but the presence of wickerwork centring may suggest otherwise. The tower in E corner is described by Nolan (ibid.) as a later addition. It now consists of three storeys, and possibly functioned originally as a garderobe. Most of the windows appear to have been altered. A church (GA055-027002-) lies 490m to NNE and there is an island cashel (GA055-042----) 450m to SW. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cargin · An Carraigín

Area

564,682 m² (56.47 ha, 139.54 acres)

Civil parish

Cargin, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killursa, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killursa electoral division: 1,135 people in 397 households; 86% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhale, Ballynacregga, Kilbeg, Luggawannia

Placenames

Cargin 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.