Castledaly

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castledaly, from 871 m² to 151,873 m² (15.19 ha, 37.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Castledaly 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.

• 7 Sept 2026N/a

  for a dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment plant, percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661522

• 16 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a rear and side extension to an existing dwelling including elevation alterations, & permission is also sought for the replacement of the existing septic tank with a new proprietary treatment system and percolation area, with all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 82.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560962

• 4 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 219.60 sqm(H), 35.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560887

• 28 Nov 2019Conditional

  of an extension to an agricultural shed. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 52.7 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191848

• 20 Sept 2018Conditional

  for the construction of (1) a slatted agricultural shed which includes a milking parlour and dairy and (2) an animal feed silo. Gross floor space of proposed works, 650sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181331

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: Peterswell Turlough SAC 000318
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Peterswell Turlough 000318

Recorded monuments

• GA114-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On W-facing slope of a hillock in pastureland. Subcircular rath (42m N-S; 37m E-W), in fair condition, defined by two banks and two fosses. The inner bank and inner fosse are visible all round. The outer bank survives from SE through S to NW and is overlain by a later field bank at S. The outer fosse survives from SE through S to SW; elsewhere a darker band of vegetation indicates its outline. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 November 2017

• GA114-049 Church
  Description

  On a gently NW-facing slope In pastureland, c. 230m to the N of a tower house (GA114-052001-). All that survives is a low overgrown irregular mound (L c. 6m; Wth c. 6m). A number of cut-stone fragments, including window mullions, reused in a nearby field wall suggest the former presence of a building of medieval date. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 January 2020

• GA114-050 Enclosure
  Description

  In flat pastureland overlooking a valley to the SW. Marked on the 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a truncated roughly subrectangular enclosure (c. 50m NW-SE; c. 38m NE-SW). A NW-SE running field boundary cuts across it from W to SE and no trace of it is indicated to its SW. The monument has been levelled and on inspection all that was visible was the arc of a filled-in fosse from NW to N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 February 2019

• GA114-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating scrubland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 33m); on the 1921 edition a line of hachures curving from SSW through W to N is shown. No visible surface trace survives but the curving field boundary now here may mirror its outline. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 22 July 2019

• GA114-052001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On level pastureland at the NW foot of the Slieve Aughty Mountains. According to Fahey (1893, 319), this townland was previously known as 'Corbally', which ties in with the 1574 list of castles in Co. Galway where 'Corbally' castle was then in the possession of 'Shane Oge fitz John fitz Ed' (Nolan 1901, 113). All that survives of this rectangular tower house (L 8.7m, Wth 6m), which was subsequently incorporated into the easternmost of two castellated wings of an 18th-century country house (GA114-052002-), itself now in ruins, is the ground floor and portions of the 1st floor. Apart from a slight base-batter to the side-walls, the only architectural features noted were the pointed arch doorway in the SE wall and part of a single-light window on the 1st floor of the same wall. The doorway has a gun loop in its E jamb. A church (GA114-049----) lies c. 240m to the N. (Bence-Jones 1978, 66) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 September 2021

• GA114-052002 Country house
  Description

  The following details have been uploaded from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/30411416/castle-daly-castledaly-galway last accessed 13 September 2021): Freestanding three-storey garden front of detached ruined country house, built c.1780, remodelled c.1830. Now ruinous. Elevation comprises recessed centre having Ventian doorway to ground floor, Diocletian window to first floor with dropped keystone and two square-headed openings to second floor, flanked by two-bay projections with square-headed window openings, all window openings having tooled limestone sills. Tooled limestone crenellations supported on corbel tables. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, stone partly exposed in places. Round-headed doorway with square-headed sidelights having tooled limestone sills. Roofless multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to south-east, half of building having openings arranged in threes, having tooled limestone eaves course, rubble limestone walls, elliptical carriage archway with tooled voussoirs, and square-headed doorways, some with tooled Gibbsian surrounds, and square-headed window openings with tooled sills. Although only the façade of this building remains, its status and importance are clearly evident in its formal proportions, large scale, and limestone crenellations. It is archaeologically significant due to the incorporation of a tower house [GA114-052002-] into the structure. The adjacent outbuildings add context to the site. Formerly known as Corbally, it was acquired by the Daly family in 1829, and remodelled after this date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 September 2021

• GA114-053 Chapel
  Description

  In a slight hollow overlooking lower ground to the S and higher land towards the N. Named 'R.C. Chapel' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and depicted as a roofed building aligned NW-SE. Another smaller building aligned NE-SW is shown to its NE. No visible surface trace of either building survives. The chapel was probably replaced by 'St. Teresa's R.C. Church', which is located c. 100m to the W. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 21 September 2017

Architectural heritage

• Saint Teresa's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-cell Roman Catholic church, built c.1850, comprising three-bay nave with square-plan two-stage tower to north-east end, and recent sacristy to south-west. Pitched slate roof having tooled limestone copings, cross-finial to south-west gable, and corner-pinnacles to corners of nave. Tooled limestone crenellations with square-profile corner pinnacles to tower. Pebbledash rendered walls having smooth render plinth course. Tooled limestone platband between stages of tower. Lined-and-ruled rendered stepped flying buttresses between nave windows, with lined render copings. Square-headed door openings to south-east side of porch and of tower, having render surrounds and timber battened doors, double-leaf to porch. Pointed arch openings to nave having tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds and sills, timber Y-tracery and stained-glass windows. Pointed arch window opening to north-east side of tower having traceried timber window and tooled limestone sill. Pointed arch openings to upper stage of tower with tooled limestone sills and timber louvers. Pointed arch opening to sacristy with timber Y-tracery and render sill. Church set within graveyard having mausoleum and grotto.

• Saint Teresa's Catholic Church, mausoleum, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gable-fronted limestone mausoleum, erected 1861 to Daly family. Sunken into ground of graveyard to south of church. Pitched stone flag roof having tooled copings, incorporating tooled Celtic cross to front (south-east) gable. Cut-stone walls. Shouldered-arch doorway to front having quatrefoil piercing, accessed via limestone steps and having inscribed tympanum above with hood-moulding. Mausoleum accessed by flight of limestone steps.

• Castle Daly, house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-storey garden front of detached ruined country house, built c.1780, remodelled c.1830. Now ruinous. Elevation comprises recessed centre having Ventian doorway to ground floor, Diocletian window to first floor with dropped keystone and two square-headed openings to second floor, flanked by two-bay projections with square-headed window openings, all window openings having tooled limestone sills. Tooled limestone crenellations supported on corbel tables. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, stone partly exposed in places. Round-headed doorway with square-headed sidelights having tooled limestone sills. Roofless multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to south-east, half of building having openings arranged in threes, having tooled limestone eaves course, rubble limestone walls, elliptical carriage archway with tooled voussoirs, and square-headed doorways, some with tooled Gibbsian surrounds, and square-headed window openings with tooled sills.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_872 (ZIP).

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

Name

Castledaly · An Corrbhaile

Area

970,982 m² (97.1 ha, 239.93 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Kilthomas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilthomas electoral division: 101 people in 41 households; 85% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybackagh, Ballylahy, Bullaunagh, Kilcarrooraun, Lisheeneynaun, Scalp

Placenames

Castledaly 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.