Castletown

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 1,031 m² to 126,117 m² (12.61 ha, 31.16 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 Castletown 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 Apr 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area & all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360358

• 25 Nov 2021Refused

  to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and treatment plant system. Permission is also sought to relocate relevant front boundaries walls so that the required sight lines can be obtained. Gross floor space of proposed works: 243 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212212

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

• GA016-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise in rolling grassland. Well-preserved D-shaped rath (E-W 36, N-S 31m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from NNE through S to W; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank survive from S through W to N. 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

• GA016-034 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On the summit of an esker ridge to W of a field system (GA016-035----). A depression (L 11m) and some quantities of loose rubble mark the site of this castle. No architectural features were noted. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 65) 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

• GA016-035 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  In pastureland immediately to the SE side of a roughly NE-SW running esker ridge. A series of earthworks, covering an area of c. 367m N-S by c. 320m NE-SW and visible across two fields, comprise a number of rectangular and irregular earthen field banks and enclosures, possible house sites and a routeway. The banks vary in base width from 2m to 4m and their maximum height is 1m. Traces of old cultivation ridges are visible in the N half of the complex. The earthworks were formerly overlooked by ‘Tolendal Castle’ (GA016-034----), the site of which is located near the SW end of the esker. They may have extended further to the NE where some may have been destroyed when the road bypassing the Tullenadaly Cross Roads junction was built (SMR file, 1984). The N17 has subsequently been constructed to the W of them. It is possible that the earthworks are the remains of a medieval settlement which was associated with the castle, both of which are recorded in 1618 as part of the holdings of Isaac Lally: ‘the castle, town and lands of Tullendally’ (Cal. pat. Rolls Ire., Jas I). A possible church (GA016-138----) may also be associated. (Alcock et al. 1999, 421) The following images have been uploaded: GA016-035----_01 General view from E; esker visible right background.jpg GA016-035----_02 General view from E.jpg GA016-035----_03 Looking NE.jpg GA016-035----_04 Looking SE.jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 February 2022

• GA029-217 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland to the W of a new stretch of the realigned N17. This rectangular enclosure (c. 35m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) was brought to the attention of the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère who identified it on Google Earth satellite imagery dated March 2014. Traces of an enclosing bank are visible along the SE, SW and NW sides. The NE sector is clipped by a later NW-SE running field boundary. The following image has been uploaded: GA029-217----_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 11 March 2014. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 May 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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 Castletown.

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

Name

Castletown · Ceathrú an Chaisleáin

Area

579,962 m² (58 ha, 143.31 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Killeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killeen electoral division: 734 people in 245 households; 94% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonmoyle, Lenamore, Lissavally (Vesey), Masmore, Meelick West, Polleens, Tullybeg North, Tullybeg South

Placenames

Castletown 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.