Classaghroe

99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Classaghroe, from 73 m² to 141,147 m² (14.11 ha, 34.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Classaghroe 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.

• 3 Apr 2025Conditional

  of excavation works and stone filling as completed and permission to construct agricultural and machinery storage sheds with all associated site services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2564

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 Classaghroe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Classaghroe.

Architectural heritage

• Blacker's Bridge, bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1855, over mill race. Wide segmental arch with crisply cut voussoirs, roughly cut-stone walls, and with rusticated blocks to parapets.

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 Classaghroe, 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Classaghroe · An Chlasach Rua

Area

1,799,121 m² (179.91 ha, 444.57 acres)

Civil parish

Boyounagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Ballinastack, the unit of the census

Census 2022

340 people lived in 129 households in the Ballinastack electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinastack, Cloonminda, Cloonnacross, Cornacoyntia, Gorteen, Kilsallagh, Straid

Placenames

Classaghroe 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.