Castleblakeney

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castleblakeney, from 75 m² to 100,091 m² (10.01 ha, 24.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Castleblakeney 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.

• 2 Jul 2026N/a

  to construct a storage shed (gross floor area 110sqm) & associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 26163

• 25 Aug 2025Conditional

  to extend and roof existing manure pit. Construct storage shed to include all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25213

• 9 Jun 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, connect to the existing septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 109.36 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560731

• 15 Feb 2024Conditional

  for a car storage yard and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2454

• 12 Jul 2023Conditional

  to construct hay/straw/machinery storage shed & to extend & roof existing collection/exercise yard to include concrete apron & all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23281

• 12 Dec 2022Refused

  of a single storey, masonry constructed extension to existing garage with a metal profile roof, containing 3 no. stables and a solid fuel storage area to the rear of the existing dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works: 80.6sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 221228

• 30 Jul 2020Conditional

  to retain works done and to complete four dwelling houses, remove a foundation for two houses, and permission is sought to construct one new detached dwelling house and connect to existing wastewater treatment unit. This development was previously granted permission under planning reference number 06/2384. Gross floor space of proposed works; 125sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained 500sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201058

• 11 Mar 2019Conditional

  to construct a farm storage shed to include all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Shed = 565.34 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19337

• 12 Nov 2018Conditional

  of extension to dwelling house & domestic garage/fuel store. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 59.52 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181612

• 12 Jul 2018Refused

  to retain foundations for six dwelling houses, and permission is sought to construct three additional dwelling houses along with a wastewater treatment unit. This development was previously granted permission under Planning Ref. No. 06/2384. Gross floor space of proposed works 330 sq. Gross floor space of work to be retained 750 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18980

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  for the following: 1) To demolish utility to rear of exiting dwellinghouse. 2) To construct a new extension to rear of dwelling house, 3) To replace exiting septic tank with a new treatment unit and percolation area. 4) To construct a new domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 167.46sqm, Garage 45.3sqm., demolition 7.02sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171878

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 Castleblakeney.

Recorded monuments

• GA060-040 Enclosure
  Description

  On a low hillock which has been almost quarried away. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as an oval enclosure (NE-SW c. 35m, NW-SE c. 25m). No visible surface trace survives due to the quarrying. 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

• GA060-041 Church
  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.

• GA060-041001 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.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Paul's Church (Killosolan), church/chapel, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-cell Church of Ireland church, built c.1810, having three-bay nave, three-stage bell tower to west, and lean-to vestry to east gable. Now in use as library and heritage centre. Pitched slate roof with cut-stone chimneystack to east gable, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Crenellations to tower with stepped merlons to corners surmounted by limestone obelisk finals, moulded string course between each stage. Pointed-arch window openings with cut limestone splayed reveals, tooled limestone sills, tower having limestone hood-mouldings to top stage of tower and square-headed openings to middle stage, with timber louvres. Replacement timber casement windows to nave. Pointed-arch timber sheeted entrance door to vestry with splayed cut-stone surround, and similar to west face of tower. Set back from road with graveyard to east and west, garden to north, random rubble limestone boundary wall with buck and doe copings.

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 Castleblakeney.

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.

• Castleblakeney, Ballinasloe5 sales

Name

Castleblakeney · Gallach

Area

427,899 m² (42.79 ha, 105.74 acres)

Civil parish

Killosolan, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Castleblakeney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleblakeney electoral division: 551 people in 197 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashfield, Course, Creggaun, Gallagh, Gortavally, Hundredacres

Placenames

Castleblakeney 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.