# Cleggan, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish An Cloigeann. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,699,181 m² (369.92 ha, 914.09 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,837 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballynakill-clifden-ra.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Cleggan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 304 people lived in 112 households in the Cleggan electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/1165800 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61148 - Centre: latitude 53.568076, longitude -10.102488 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cleggan, from 407 m² to 461,170 m² (46.12 ha, 113.96 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1954384: 461,170 m² (46.12 ha, 113.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954384.md - Parcel 1954491: 59,414 m² (5.94 ha, 14.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954491.md - Parcel 1954493: 46,750 m² (4.67 ha, 11.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954493.md - Parcel 1996711: 29,054 m² (2.91 ha, 7.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1996711.md - Parcel 1996710: 14,864 m² (1.49 ha, 3.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1996710.md - Parcel 1954386: 13,792 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954386.md - Parcel 1954385: 13,430 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954385.md - Parcel 1954396: 13,211 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954396.md - Parcel 1954394: 13,100 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954394.md - Parcel 1996798: 12,684 m² (1.27 ha, 3.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1996798.md - Parcel 1954492: 12,445 m² (1.24 ha, 3.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954492.md - Parcel 1954387: 12,328 m² (1.23 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954387.md - Parcel 1996799: 12,048 m² (1.2 ha, 2.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1996799.md - Parcel 2112805: 12,033 m² (1.2 ha, 2.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112805.md - Parcel 5929182: 11,931 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5929182.md - Parcel 1954393: 11,837 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954393.md - Parcel 1954388: 11,498 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954388.md - Parcel 1954392: 11,462 m² (1.15 ha, 2.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954392.md - Parcel 1954395: 10,797 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954395.md - Parcel 1954391: 10,239 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954391.md - Parcel 1954397: 9,762 m² (0.98 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954397.md - Parcel 4455795: 3,603 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4455795.md - Parcel 5370008: 2,375 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5370008.md - Parcel 5927161: 2,356 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5927161.md - Parcel 1954389: 2,166 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954389.md - Parcel 6193207: 1,725 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6193207.md - Parcel 6078522: 1,642 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6078522.md - Parcel 6193209: 1,198 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6193209.md - Parcel 3456154: 744 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3456154.md - Parcel 6078523: 641 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6078523.md - Parcel 1954390: 407 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954390.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cleggan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 4 Oct 2023, Galway County Council 23402: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for alterations to property from those approved under pl. reg. ref. 00/2635 & pl. reg. ref. 62323. Permission also to replace the existing septic tank with a treatment plant & all associated drainage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/23402/0 - 15 Jun 2021, Galway County Council 211056: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a single storey house, 150.0sq. metres in area, with a pitched roof, a new entrance, associated site works and a waste water treatment system on her land at Ballynew, Moyard, Co. Galway. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/211056/0 - 24 Sept 2018, Galway County Council 181341: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to (1) Construct a new extension to the side elevation of the existing dwelling house (2) proposed external and internal alterations to existing dwelling house (3) proposed domestic garage (4) retain existing side elevation conservatory (5) replace existing septic tank and percolation area with new treatment system with polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 121.60sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained 14.90sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181341/0 - 28 Jun 2018, Galway County Council 18887: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 185.50 sq.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18887/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: West Connacht Coast SAC, site code 002998, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002998 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA009-006001: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA009-006001-. By a shingle beach at the head of Port, a small bay on N side of Cleggan Head. Known locally as Tobar Na Seacht nlníon, it consists of a small natural spring enclosed by a roughly square drystone wall (L/Wth 2m) with an entrance at NW. There is an alcove in S wall containing modern offerings. Immediately to SSE is a ruinous circular structure (D c. 2m) marked on OS 6-inch map as 'Monument'; possibly a leacht or a small shelter for visitors. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA009-006002: Monumental structure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA009-006002-. 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. - GA009-007: Signal tower, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA009-007----. Situated at the east edge of the summit area of Cleggan Hill, a steep ridge that extends along the N side of Cleggan Bay (147m OD). The ground slopes steeply down to the E immediately beyond the site. The surrounding area consists of unenclosed blanket bog, with two small lakes to the E. The signal tower has unobstructed views in all directions. The signal tower is located c. 484m NE of the coastline at its closest point. The signal tower to the S, Bunowen Hill (GA049-017002-), located c. 17.2kms to the S, has been demolished and can no longer be seen from this location; Inishturk Signal Tower (MA094-027----), County Mayo, located c. 15.5kms to the N, now survives as a low ruin and is no longer visible from this location at Cleggan Hill. The signal tower at Cleegan is located c. 765m N of a court tomb (GA022-014----) sited adjacent to the coastline along the N side of Cleggan Bay, and c. 945m SE of a holy well (GA009-006-) indicated as 'Tobernaseachtinnean' on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map (c. 1837). The remains of an early nineteenth-century (c. 1806) originally two-storey square-plan signal tower (int. dims. 4.27m N-S x 4.27m E-W; wall H 4.36m to N, wall H 3.57m to E), built with randomly coursed rubble stone masonry, and having a slight base batter. The signal tower is now a low ruin and only the foundations and limited short sections of the ground floor now survive upstanding (mainly to the N and E). Local information (supplied by Caroline Cosgrove) indicated that the signal tower was reasonably complete until the mid-20th Century but suffered a catastrophic collapse when it was struck by lightning during a storm (in 1960s). Several historic photographs exist that show the tower to have been a neat structure, very similar in form to the example seen at Lettermullan Island Signal Station (GA089-013----), County Galway. The walls of the square signal tower face N, E, S, and W. The S wall has entirely collapsed, although it remains visible at ground level. Only the central portion of the W wall survives above ground level, where it has a max H of 2.5m. Only the E and N walls retain internal wall faces, with surviving sections of lime render evident in places. The N wall features a ‘pillar’ of stonework in the centre that was the dividing wall between two ground-floor windows. At the E end of the N wall there is a square-sectioned vertical drainage channel. These two features indicate that the N and S elevations featured the window openings (usually paired), that the E elevation featured the fireplaces, chimney flue, and chimneystack, and that the W elevation contained the central doorway at first floor level. The only internal feature visible on the W is a row of joist holes located very close to the internal ground\floor level, indicating the likely presence of an infilled semi-basement below the current ground surface. The signal tower is surrounded by a substantial spread of rubble (measuring c 50m E-W x 30m N-S; the remains of the signal tower are located towards the W end of this rubble spread, suggesting that the tower collapsed mainly to the E. The signal tower was originally surrounded by a small enclosure that is now defined by a grassy bank with a narrow line of rubble stone running down its centre. This suggests that the enclosure was originally marked by a narrow rubble stone wall that has subsequently collapsed and become grassed over. However, only an L-shaped section of bank (Wth c. 2m) and rubble stone wall (Wth. c. 0.6m) to the S (L c. 21m E-W) and W (L c. 11m N-S) of the signal tower is currently visible to site. The N and E sections of the enclosure wall\bank are likely hidden beneath the rubble spread that now surrounds the tower; although, given the steep nature of the ground at the E, no boundary wall may have been required on that side of the site. The enclosure is smaller than those typically found surrounding signal towers, and its extent was probably limited by the local topography. The ruins of a rectangular building (int. dims. 6.9m E-W, 3.5m N-S; wall H 1.22m) with mortared rubble stone walls are located c. 39.8m W of the signal tower. The remains of this building are now surrounded by a dense rubble spread (spread c. 14.1m E-W x 7.95m N-S). This building is shown on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map (surveyed 1838-9) and may have been a contemporary element of the Cleggan Hill Signal Station. A lime kiln is indicated on Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map (surveyed 1838-9) immediately NW of the signal tower; its likely location is now concealed by the rubble spread. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the 19th century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 08/07/22 Images: GA009-007----.01 N exterior GA009-007----.02 E exterior GA009-007----.03 S exterior GA009-007----.04 W exterior GA009-007----.05 N interior GA009-007----.06 E interior GA009-007----.07 W interior GA009-007----.08 Detail of channel in S corner of E (interior) GA009-007----.09 NE oblique view GA009-007----.10 NW oblique view GA009-007----.11 SE oblique view GA009-007----.12 SW oblique view GA009-007----.13 N exterior drawing GA009-007----.14 E exterior drawing GA009-007----.15 W exterior drawing GA009-007----.16 N (top) and W (bottom) interior drawings GA009-007----.17 Plan of site GA009-007----.18 Collapsed building to the W; view from E GA009-007----.19 Collapsed building to the W; view from S - GA022-014: Megalithic tomb - court tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA022-014----. On N shore of Cleggan Bay. The remains of this tomb consist of a gallery aligned ESE-WNW. The front, E portion appears incomplete. The orthostats running E of the pair of transversely set jambs could be interpreted as chamber sidestones or as defining a narrow asymmetrical court. The gallery to W of these is divided into two chambers by a septal stone and jamb. The innermost W chamber is distinctly narrower and of lighter construction than the rest of the monument. A large roofstone covers the adjoining E chamber and a long stone, probably a displaced lintel, lies in this chamber immediately W of the jambs. The remains of the mound survive on S side of the monument. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 5-7) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972). 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Cleggan House, house, 1850–1860, Regional interest, registry number 30402201, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30402201. Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1855, with projecting gabled end bays to front with lean-to verandah between, slightly advanced end bays to rear, enclosed courtyard to west, and recent uPVC conservatory to rear. Three-bay side elevations, south-east having one blocked window opening. Pitched slate roofs with decorative bracketed eaves to gables, slate roof to verandah, rendered chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Exposed coursed rubble limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins and plinth with vents below latter with metal louvers. Chamfered timber posts to verandah with tooled limestone plinths and timber spandrels to roof. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone lintels and surrounds, limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Blocked window opening to south-east elevation. Square-headed door openings with tooled limestone lintels and surrounds. Limestone steps and timber panelled door with overlight to front. Courtyard comprises L-plan two-bay single-storey former stable block with lean-to slate roof, replacement uPVC rainwater goods and rubble stone walls, square-headed openings having tooled limestone lintels and sills, red-brick surrounds and replacement uPVC windows, and having timber glazed door to front. Segmental-arched gateway to yard with rubbed red-brick voussoirs and jambs. Rubble stone boundary walls with tooled limestone piers with tooled limestone capping and wrought-iron gates. Farmyard with associated buildings to north-east. - Cleggan House, farmyard complex, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 30402202, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30402202. Freestanding E-plan farmyard complex, built c.1860, now converted into private and commercial accommodation. Comprises three single-storey blocks oriented north-west south-east and attached at right angles to two-storey former barn. Middle nine-bay and south twelve-bay ranges were stables and ten-bay north range was cattle byre. Steward's house to north-east. Hipped slate roofs to outbuildings with red-brick dog-tooth eaves course and some rendered chimneystacks. Exposed coursed rubble limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins. Camber-arched openings having rubbed red-brick voussoirs and surrounds, tooled limestone sills, replacement timber windows. Camber-arched carriage entrances to barn having tooled limestone voussoirs, block-and-start surrounds and tooled limestone piers, converted to window openings with concrete sills and timber windows. King-post timber trussed roof to middle range and queen-post to northern. Rubble stone enclosing walls with tooled limestone piers and galvanised metal gates enclosing area between stable blocks. Circular mill pond to north-west of farmyard which powered a turbine for the farm. Millstones to complex. Detached T-plan two-bay two-storey former steward's house, built c.1860, and having projecting chimneystack to rear, recent single-storey extension to north-east and lean-to porch to north-west. Now in use as holiday house. Pitched replacement slate roofs with carved timber finials to gables, rendered chimneystacks, timber bargeboards and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Roughly coursed rubble limestone walls with tooled quoins and plinth with vents. Square-headed window openings with rendered (brick) surrounds, tooled stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening within porch to north-west elevation with timber panelled door. Rubble stone boundary walls and piers with wrought-iron gates, stone steps and bridge over stream to south-east elevation and timber gate to north-west with tooled stone quoins and capping to pier. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Cleggan, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cleggan. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/cleggan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/cleggan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/cleggan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cleggan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynew: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynew-60461.md - Cloon: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloon-61194.md - Sheeauns: https://everytownland.com/galway/sheeauns.md - Trean: https://everytownland.com/galway/trean.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/cleggan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/cleggan