Castlenancy

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlenancy, from 76 m² to 232,495 m² (23.25 ha, 57.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Castlenancy 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.

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling, construction of a domestic garage/store, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25362

• 12 May 2022Conditional

  to construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage, with on site sewerage treatment system and all other site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 258sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22619

• 9 Sept 2021Conditional

  to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 252.70 sqm, Garage: 50 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211639

• 28 Feb 2019Conditional

  and complete dwellinghouse, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated services (previously granted under planning ref. no. 18/75). Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling - 206 sqm; Garage - 41.3 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Dwelling - 206 sqm; Garage - 41.3 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19281

• 30 Jan 2018Conditional

  to construct new dwelling house, garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 206 sqm, (garage) 43.1 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1875

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 Castlenancy.

Recorded monuments

• GA106-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in low-lying pastureland. Circular rath (diam. c. 45m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. A causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.5m) is visible at W. There is a souterrain (GA106-045001-) in the NE quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 November 2017

• GA106-045001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the NE quadrant of a rath (GA106-045----). A largely collapsed drystone-built souterrain (L c. 13m) running roughly N-S. Only a short section (L 4m; Wth 1.3m) at the S end remains intact and an air-vent is evident in the S wall. Otherwise a grassy hollow indicates the line of the passage. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 November 2017

• GA106-046 Enclosure
  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.

• GA106-046001 Souterrain
  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

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Castlenancy, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Castlenancy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Castlenancy · Béal Átha na nÉan

Area

1,478,556 m² (147.86 ha, 365.36 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeygormacan, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilmeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

672 people lived in 233 households in the Kilmeen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamurdoon, Carra, Cooracurkia, Finnure, Foxhall, Gortymadden, Mullagh Beg

Placenames

Castlenancy 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.