Cashel

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashel, from 5 m² to 4,452,252 m² (445.23 ha, 1,100.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Cashel 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.

• 25 Jul 2019Conditional

  of existing dwelling house on revised site boundaries and retention of domestic garage and sheds as well as all associated site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: House - 260.00 sqm, Garage - 90 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191151

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: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

• GA051-002 Enclosure
  Description

  On E shoulder of Cashel Hill. Known locally as Caiseal Árd, this is a poorly preserved circular earthen enclosure (D 27m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from S through W to NE; elsewhere a scarp exists. The outer bank, which is revetted with stone, is overlain by a field wall from E to S and has been removed from W to N. The interior contains a graveyard (GA051-002001-), marked 'Burying Ground' on 1st and 2nd (1899) eds. of OS 6-inch map, and a rectangular stone-built leacht (L 1.5m, Wth 1.4m, H 0.45m). A holy well (GA051-003----) lies to NE . Though its morphology resembles that of a ringfort, its association with the well and burial ground suggests that it may be an ecclesiastical enclosure. (Robinson 1985, 7; Killanin 1954, 102; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 103) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA051-002001 Burial ground
  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.

• GA051-002002 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  This cross-inscribed stone is located within a children’s burial ground (GA051-002001-) that lies in the interior of an enclosure (GA051-002----). It was recorded by Higgins (1987, ii, 274, no. 5) who described it as a naturally rounded boulder (H 0.36m; Wth 0.23m; T 0.08m) with a lightly incised Latin cross on its E face. The shaft of the cross bifurcates and widens below the arms, and then narrows and ends in point. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 25 May 2018

• GA051-003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On a small Stream c. enclosure (GA051-002----). Known locally as Tobar Chonaill, it consists of a small horseshoe-shaped drystone enclosure (2.5m by 1.5m), opening towards SE, which straddles the stream. Still much frequented. (Killanin 1954, 102; Robinson 1985, 7; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 103) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA051-005 Mass-rock
  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.

• GA051-006 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  In an area of rough pasture and bogland. This is a rock on which religious medals used to be left and that also bears footprints of a child and lamb (information from Mr. T. Robinson 1986). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 February 2023

Architectural heritage

• Cashel House, house, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached stepped plan two-storey house, built 1840, facing south and presenting five-bay front elevation, and having projecting east end bay with box-bay window to its front, and porch to middle of elevation in angle of one step of plan. Later flat-roof extensions to rear and east side. Now in use as hotel. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, and eaves course. Flat roofs to box-bay and porch with moulded cornices and architraves. Painted rendered walls with raised render quoins and moulded first floor sill course. Square-headed windows to ground floor and camber-headed to first floor, mainly single to first floor and mainly double to ground floor, with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, and stone sills. Projecting bay has render hood-mouldings and imposts to first floor windows and box-bay has render label-mouldings and imposts. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled door and overlight. Two-storey and dormered single-storey outbuildings to rear having pitched slate roofs and rendered walls. Set within gardens with two entrances, and rubble stone boundary wall with recent gate piers.

• Saint James's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival-style Roman Catholic church, built 1901, having altar to south-east end, and four-bay nave, single-bay chancel, two-stage bell tower to north-west end of entrance elevation and single-bay sacristy to south-east end of rear long elevation. Recent metal-clad outbuilding to north-east elevation. Pitched slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles, concrete coping, cross finials, corbels and cast-iron rainwater goods. Conical slate roof to tower with dentillated eaves course and cross finial. Randomly coursed rock-faced granite block walls with rendered coping to plinth, and having stone buttresses to front corner of chancel and to adjacent corner of nave. Square-plan tower with octagonal-plan drum. Pointed arch window openings to nave and triangular-headed window openings to chancel, sacristy and tower, with leaded stained-glass windows and rendered heads, sacristy having paired one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with rendered sills. Timber louvers to tower drum. Square-headed door opening to sacristy and pointed arch door opening to tower with replacement double-leaf timber battened doors. Accessed by concrete steps to south-west and enclosed by rubble stone wall with piers and cast-iron gates.

• Pier/jetty, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Stepped rectangular-plan pier, built c. 1860, slightly raised to recessed seaward end, and having flights of granite steps to sheltered side of both parts. Rubble granite construction, with parapet to seaward long side. Granite mooring posts at intervals along pier.

• Post box, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron wall-mounted post box, c. 1930, with P&T and manufacturer’s insignia.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Cashel.

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

Name

Cashel · An Caiseal

Area

5,166,415 m² (516.64 ha, 1,276.65 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Moyrus, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moyrus electoral division: 334 people in 139 households; 82% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athry, Doonreaghan, Glencrees, Lehanagh South, Lettershinna, Scrahallia

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cashel 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.