Claddagh West

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Claddagh West, from 87 m² to 157,463 m² (15.75 ha, 38.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Claddagh West 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Claddagh West in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Claddagh West.

Recorded monuments

• GA030-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (N-S 46m, E-W 41.5m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible from E through S to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The outer bank displays evidence of stone-facing. A field wall cuts the monument at ENE and WSW. There is a well-defined entrance at E. Within the interior are a probable souterrain (GA030-040002-) and CBG (GA030-040001-) 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

• GA030-040001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA030-040----). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931); no visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA030-040002 Souterrain
  Description

  In N half of a ringfort (GA030-040----). What is visible is a grassy linear hollow (L 13.3m) running N-S. It averages 3.2m in width and is up to 0.75m in depth but widens at N end to 4.9m, possibly marking the site of a chamber. A few large stones protrude from its base and there is a pile of soil beside the hollow at its N end. According to local tradition, this is the site of a 'cave' which runs underground to Claddagh Castle (GA030-042----) which lies 550m to SE. 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

• GA030-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (E-W 44.5m, N-S 41.5m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank, which is stone-faced internally, is visible at SW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank are clearly visible all round; the latter is stone-faced in N and S sectors. Well-defined entrance gap (Wth 2.9m) at E. 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

• GA030-042 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a rise in rolling grassland overlooking bogland to N and E. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 103), this castle 'belonged to the O'Kellys of Hy-Many'. It is depicted by Grose (1791, Vol. 1, 64) as a roughly square tower, about four storeys high, with a notable base batter. Access was via a pointed arch doorway centrally placed in one side-wall. His ground plan shows a spiral stairs to the right of the doorway and a number of chambers on the ground floor. The doorway was surmounted by a double machicolation at parapet level and a second machicolation is also visible on an adjoining side-wall. The windows shown comprised narrow slits and a number of small round-headed examples. Only fragmentary sections of N (L 8.7m) and W (L 6m) walls now survive at NW corner. Otherwise grassed-over foundation lines indicate the outline of a rectangular building (L 12m, Wth 8m). Apart from a possible window embrasure or wall cupboard in W wall, no architectural features survive. Surrounding the castle are traces of an enclosure defined by a low earthen bank from W to N. It may have been originally circular (D c. 70m) but no visible surface trace survives elsewhere. Adjacent to the castle is an irregular series of grassed-over stone walls, mounds and hollows. 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

• GA030-042001 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.

• GA030-043 Enclosure
  Description

  On a rise in grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931) as a D-shaped field (NNW-SSW c. 50m) defined from S through W to N by a curving boundary and along E side by a straight one. No visible surface trace survives. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Claddagh West.

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

Name

Claddagh West · An Cladach Thiar

Area

1,422,526 m² (142.25 ha, 351.51 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbern, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Clonbern, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonbern electoral division: 388 people in 133 households; 88% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappadavock, Claddagh East, Garrauns, Kilgarriff North, Lomaunaghbaun, Lomaunaghroe

Placenames

Claddagh West 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.