Castlemoyle

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlemoyle, from 17,901 m² (1.79 ha, 4.42 acres) to 588,219 m² (58.82 ha, 145.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Castlemoyle 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.

• 6 Feb 2024Conditional

  for Instream habitat restoration works in the Omaum River: including the addition of spawning gravel, random boulders, installation of paired deflectors and the excavation of pools. The development will include riparian buffer fencing, tree planting and installation of a solar drinking trough along the Omaum River. The NIS has been summited

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2435

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

Recorded monuments

• GA044-030 House - 18th/19th century
  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

• Castlemoyle House, country house, 1760–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached roofless country house, comprising two blocks, east-west block built c.1780 and being five-bay three-storey over half-basement and apparently pre-dating north-south irregular-plan block of c.1830. Combined façade at east became entrance front, one window of east gable of earlier block being blocked up to give symmetrical three-bay three-storey elevation. Walls lime rendered, with simple block cornice. Square-headed windows, east-west block having brick voussoirs and later block having limestone voussoirs, all with limestone sills. First floor of main elevation of older block has remains of Venetian-style window. North end of rear wall of later block has massive limestone chimneystack. Round-headed doorway to east elevation and to rear of later block, latter being set in splayed wall. To north of house is walled garden entered through depressed segmental archway at south-west corner, with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs. Yard of outbuildings to south-west of house, west range built c.1830 and having hipped slate roof with rubble limestone chimneystacks and cement-rendered walls, and south range of c.1850 with original roof replaced by single pitch, and walls of rusticated limestone.

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 Castlemoyle.

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

Name

Castlemoyle · An Caisleán Maol

Area

800,077 m² (80.01 ha, 197.7 acres)

Civil parish

Killererin, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Levally, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Levally electoral division: 437 people in 148 households; 96% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahgloragh, Cartronroe, Cornacartan, Corskeagh Beg, Hillswood East, Kilmore

Placenames

Castlemoyle 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.