Clifden

300 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clifden, from 9 m² to 49,463 m² (4.95 ha, 12.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 154 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 103 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (Phase 1) (New/proposed residential)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Residential (Phase 2) (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential Infill (New/proposed residential)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Jun 2026N/a

  for (1) the connection and amalgamation of an existing public house with overhead apartments and an adjoining guest house to form a single hotel development, retaining the existing bar use and layout at ground floor level, (2) alterations and refurbishment of existing buildings to make provision for a 20-bedroom hotel, (3) including construction of an additional upper floor increasing the overall building height from two storeys to three storeys, (4) new signage to the front elevation, and (5) all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660895

• 8 Apr 2026Conditional

  of a rear extension to the existing dwelling house, roof windows to rear and side elevations, minor adjustments to rear dormer roof and all ancillary works on revised site boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660530

• 20 Feb 2026Conditional

  for change of use of existing dwelling house from Holiday Home use to Private Residential use

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660269

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  for private garage building and for shed/store building with all associated works and ancillary services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561740

• 16 Oct 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house with garage and connect to all public utility services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561521

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  for extension and alterations to dwelling house with all associated works and ancillary services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561055

• 11 Jul 2025Conditional

  to demolish existing dilapidated rear extensions, construct new rear extension, refurbishment/upgrade works to existing house, construct new top floor balcony, including all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed work 140.40 sqm(extension). Gross floor space of any demolition: 66.70 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560940

• 27 May 2025Refused

  for a) revised vehicular access and parking arrangement for a previously approved house and b) single storey extensions and other minor changes to the previously approved house, on part of the previously approved site (reg. ref. 98/1026). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 160.50 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560663

• 22 Apr 2025Conditional

  of the retaining wall and site works as constructed to the revised northern site boundary of the existing housing development under construction, previous Planning ref no. 23/60160 and 24/60272 including a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) carried out under previous application

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560452

• 22 Apr 2025Conditional

  for an extension and alterations to an existing National School together with all associated services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2581

• 19 Oct 2024Refused

  for changes from previously approved permission (98/1026) on a revised site boundary, with changes to the building footprint and with other minor design changes. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 160.50 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461389

• 18 Oct 2024Refused

  to renovate the existing Grainstore warehouse building for the provision of 1 no. ground floor commercial unit and 3 no. one-bedroom apartments and to extend to the rear of the Grainstore for the provision of 1 no. single-storey one-bedroom apartment, and to provide 4 no car parking spaces to the rear and all ancillary site works and services. The Grainstore is a Protected Structure in the Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028 (Reference No. 582). Gross floor space of proposed works: 391.9 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461374

• 9 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the change of use from commercial to residential for the ground floor level of the building to provide a single apartment, using existing parking facilities and services. This application includes for the internal building modifications without making any changes to the external appearance of the building. Gross floor space of proposed works: 134 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 445 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461324

• 6 Aug 2024Refused

  for changes from previously approved permission (98/1026) on a revised site boundary, with changes to the building footprint and with other minor design changes. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 160.50 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460997

• 2 Jul 2024Conditional

  of the demolition of an existing modern extension to the rear of the dwelling, comprising of a dining & sun room, the construction of a new extension, comprising of an open-plan kitchen-dining-living space and new pantry, the making of a new opening between the existing hall and proposed extension, incorporating full heigh glazing to east and west façade and a low pitch zinc roof with central rooflight, external works include relocating the soil vent pipe which connects to the existing septic tank and allowance for new soakpit to take water run-off from the new extension and sundry other minor works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 67.53 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 31.49 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460815

• 7 May 2024Conditional

  for: (i) The demolition of the existing 78.3 sqm ground floor conservatory to the south elevation and 5.2 sqm service yard storeroom to the east elevation, (ii) a proposed single storey 136.4 sqm extension to the south elevation, including a new entrance node and a redesign of the ground floor layout, and (iii) a proposed 2 storey 108.9 sqm side extension to the east elevation to support auxiliary accommodation. The proposed works equate to a total increase in floor area of 88.3 sqm to the ground floor, and 73.5 sqm to the first floor. The proposal includes associated internal modifications, elevation changes and all associated site development works above and below ground. The property is within the curtilage of protected structures, namely the station house, station master's house, and engine house (RPS no. 596). Gross floor space of proposed works: 245.3 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 83.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24121

• 14 Mar 2024Conditional

  for alterations to block C and for the piping of the existing drain to the front of the site and all associated ancillary works, previous Planning ref no. 23/60160. Gross floor space of proposed works: 976 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460272

• 11 Jan 2024Conditional

  for the development consisting of the demolition of non-protected existing buildings and glazed porch and construction of an extension to and refurbishment of existing Protected Structure to create a 40-bed Residential Care Centre with gross floor area of 4,337m2 on a site of 1.46Ha, consisting of: (1) two-storey courtyard building, rectangular in plan, containing 38 single bedrooms with ensuite and one twin room with ensuite, along with support accommodation: sitting and activity rooms, day spaces, sanitary accommodation, pantries, stores, stairs and lifts, roof top plant and roof mounted solar photovoltaic panels; (2) two-storey support wing containing production kitchen, staff changing, family accommodation, stair and lift, plant rooms, screened roof plant areas, and roof mounted solar photovoltaic panels; 3) two-storey glazed links containing corridors, entrance lobby, and reception; (4) reconfiguration of the Protected Structure to provide administrative areas, staff changing, resident support areas, and Day Hospital containing day room, reflection room, hairdressing, physiotherapy areas, clinic rooms, and associated support areas; (5) external works in the form of improved existing site entrances, new landscaped gardens, screened plant areas, electrical substation, liquefied petroleum gas tanks, 37 car parking spaces, bicycle parking, new internal roads and paths, new foul and surface water drainage installations, including SUDS measures, and flood mitigation measures incorporating the diversion of existing culvert to new watercourse with flood retention basins. The application includes a Natura Impact Statement (NIS). Gross floor space of proposed works: 3200 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 149 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460018

• 22 Dec 2023Conditional

  of (1) planning permission 18/200 on a revised site boundaries with internal design changes to the second floor level and (2) change of use from commercial to residential for the first floor level of the building to provide a single apartment with existing parking facilities and services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 146.8 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2361572

• 16 Jun 2023Conditional

  for works including the demolition of a single storey glazed conservatory on the ground floor hotel courtyard (south-facing) side & a the construction of a new replacement structure with minor extensions consisting of a new bay window & entrance node. The proposal also includes internal changes including expansion of the restaurant, relocation of the reception, increased bar area & re-purposing of conference room 1 into a new bar/lounge area. The proposed development is within the curtilage of Protected Structures (PRS no. 596) although the Protected Structures are not affected directly by the works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360668

• 14 Jun 2023Conditional

  for (1) construction of a new playschool childcare facility (2) connection to all public services as well as all ancillary site works & site services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360645

• 18 May 2023N/a

  for: (1) construction of a new playschool childcare facility (2) connection to all public services as well as all ancillary site works and site services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360527

• 15 May 2023Conditional

  For development consisting of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360510

• 23 Feb 2023Conditional

  for 30 no. residential units, comprised of: 5no. three-bed units (two storey); 8no. one-bed units (single storey/ground floor); 3no. two-bed units (single storey); & 14no. two bed duplex units; the provision of 47no. car parking spaces, including 3no. accessible spaces & 10no. EV charging spaces; the provision of 36no. onsite bicycle parking spaces; the provision of footpaths & pedestrian crossings to facilitate connections to the existing public footpath network. The proposed development includes for site landscaping, public service connections & all other associated site development works necessary to facilitate the proposed development. Gross floor space of proposed works 2,336.8sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360160

• 9 Feb 2023Conditional

  of existing self-contained first floor residential apartment.Gross floor space of work to be retained 70.55sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2360095

The 25 most recent of 94 applications.

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: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex SAC 002031

Recorded monuments

• GA035-015 Church
  Description

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• GA035-015001 Graveyard
  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.

• GA035-015002 Standing stone
  Description

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• GA035-017 Monumental structure
  Description

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• GA035-018 Church
  Description

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• GA035-018001 Graveyard
  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.

• GA035-019 Religious house - unclassified
  Description

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• GA035-020 Country house
  Description

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• GA035-021 Prison
  Description

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• GA035-022 Graveyard
  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.

• GA035-023 Courthouse
  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.

• GA035-062 Town
  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

• The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former rectory, built c.1860, having four-bay side and rear elevations, and with recent hipped porch to front and single-storey extension to rear. Now in use as private house. Hipped skirt reslated roof with paired brackets to overhanging eaves, and rendered chimneystacks, with recent rendered stacks to rear elevation. Rendered walls with rendered plinth, rendered pilasters to corners, and having blocked square-headed window opening to rear elevation. Paired round-headed window openings to middle bay of first floor of front and rear elevations with margined one-over-one pane windows, and square-headed windows elsewhere with six-over-six pane windows, all having painted sills. Outbuildings to north of house including multiple-bay two-storey building having hipped slate roof and square-headed timber sliding sash windows. House set in own grounds bounded by rubble stone walls.

• Christ Church (Omey), church/chapel, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1853, comprising nave and chancel, with attached bell tower to southeast added 1864, vestry to north-east, half-octagonal plan baptistry to west gable having flat-roofed porch to south side. Pitched artificial slate roof to nave, pitched slate to chancel with decorative ridge tiles and carved limestone coping to gable, single-pitch slate roof to vestry with carved limestone slab coping, metallic fabric to roof of baptistry and parapet to flat roof of porch. Cast-iron uPVC and metal rainwater goods. Rubble lime stone walls built to courses with dressed limestone quoins, roughcast render to west elevations with rendered plinth and raised quoins. Tooled limestone plinth, sill bands, corbels and buttresses to nave, chancel and vestry. Pointed arch two-light openings to windows with iron latticework frames throughout, and triple-light pointed arch window to chancel gable, all with pecked and tooled limestone surrounds. Square-headed shoulder-arched entrances to north elevation with pecked and tooled limestone surrounds and timber battened doors. Pointed arch opening to south elevation of tower having chamfered tooled limestone surround and carved labels with replacement double-leaf timber battened door. Three-stage tower having octagonal stone spire with helmed base and decorative finial/weather vane, middle stage of rubble stone construction with dressed quoins, with cut limestone string courses between stages. Two-light pointed arch openings to top stage with cut limestone surrounds and rubble limestone voussoirs. Bottom stage of rubble limestone, with stepped buttresses having cut limestone quoins. Metal clock face with carved pointed hood-moulding to south elevation. Pointed arch openings to windows of east elevation, having iron latticework frames and dressed limestone surrounds. Timber king-post truss roof to interior with stone corbels to feet of trusses. Several ornate wall-mounted marble memorials. Timber pews and pulpit. Rubble stone boundary walls, gate piers with pyramidal capstones and cast-iron gates. [

• Hill House, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited detached T-plan three-bay two-storey house built c.1850, with flat-roof single- and two-storey additions to rear and north sides of return. Pedimented oriel window projecting over entrance and box-bay windows to gables. Pitched slate roof to front block, with slightly lower hipped slate roof to return, rendered chimneystacks to junction of blocks, finial to south gable, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Hipped slate roofs to bay windows. Roughcast rendered walls with tooled limestone and rendered plinth, tooled limestone quoins to ground floor, rendered platbands between floors and to wall-head level of gables. Oriel window has moulded render cornice and pediment, and its tooled limestone base is supported by tooled limestone brackets, limestone work forming hood to entrance doorway below. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills to ground floor front, raised render surrounds and moulded cornices to ground floor front windows. Raised render surrounds and concrete sills elsewhere. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor front and to south gable, two-over-one pane to north gable, two-pane timber casement double windows to oriel, tripartite two-over-two pane to two-storey addition, and replacement timber casement windows to first floor rear. Round-headed window opening to north side of return, with margined four-over-four pane timber sliding sash window with spoked fanlight and having platband rising over to suggest label-moulding. Square headed opening to front entrance with tooled limestone surround, timber panelled door with timber panelled and stained-glass sidelights, and having limestone flags to front. Panel to area over door. Outbuilding to rear (north-west) having lean-to corrugated-asbestos roof and rendered walls. Rendered boundary walls with cast-metal railings and gates to north and east.

• Fountain Villa, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, having flat-roofed porch with balcony, lean-to extension to rear, canted-bay window to south gable, and slightly advanced middle bay to front having pediment to only first-floor window. Pitched slate roof having painted rendered chimneystack with concrete coping to gables and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Flat roof with crenellations and moulded render cornice to bay window. Painted rendered walls with raised render plinth/sill course, render string course to first floor, render pilasters to porch corners with raised moulded render cornice and parapet over with pilasters and wrought-iron railing. Moulded rendered pediment to middle bay of front with foliate dart moulding to tympanum over raised rendered pilasters. Square-headed openings having render surrounds, rendered architraves to west and north, having replacement uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed opening to entrance, with moulded rendered surround and replacement glazed timber door. Painted rendered enclosing wall with gate piers, wrought-iron railings and decorative gate.

• Hotel, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached six-bay three-storey hotel, built c.1890, having canted bays to ground and first floor of middle and end bays, pitched cast-iron and glazed portico to main entrance with decorative cast-iron columns. Additional blocks to rear built c.1900. Pitched slate roof having rendered parapet to front, concealed rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Pitched artificial slate roof to main additional block having replacement uPVC rainwater goods, pitched slate roof to north-west addition having cast-iron rainwater goods and decorative service pipes. Painted channelled rendered walls to lower floors of main building, having raised render lettering to top floor. Render sill courses to upper floors with panelled pilasters to top floor, and moulded cornice to first floor with moulded render brackets. Rendered walls to rear and side elevations of later blocks. Square-headed openings throughout having render pilasters to top floor, all with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to additional blocks having concrete sills and replacment uPVC windows. Camber-headed opening to main hotel entrance having replacement glazed timber door with side-lights overlight. Square-headed opening to restaurant entrance having replacement timber glazed door with overlight.

• Hotel, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  End of terrace five-bay three-storey former hotel, built c.1860, now in use as retail outlet and domestic dwelling with advanced entrance porch having cast-iron balcony. Pitched slate roof addition and multiple extensions to rear. Flat roof with rendered chimneystacks, moulded render cornice, and rendered parapet with ornamental urns. Main entrance bay has decorative pediment detail with pilasters and urns. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods to rear. Painted rendered walls, lined-and-ruled to first floor and having render plinth to ground floor. Moulded render sill courses to upper floors, top floor also having moulded string course. Square-headed window openings thorughout, having panelled render pilasters to upper floors incorporating sill courses and also string course of top floor. Tripartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to upper floors and replacement timber display windows to ground floor. Square-headed openings to entrances flanked by pilasters with moulded cornices and having replacement double-leaf glazed timber doors, with overlight to main entrance.

• Clifden Courthouse, court house, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey court house, built 1837, having recessed single-bay porches to each end. Hipped slate roof to main block, with red-brick chimneystack having render coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods with tooled limestone brackets to eaves over raised render frieze. Flat roofs to porches having tooled limestone cornice over raised render frieze. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having tooled limestone plinth, tooled limestone plat band/sill course to first floor of main block continuing at impost level to porch end walls. Square-headed openings to first floor of front, south, elevation, having tooled limestone surrounds with frieze and cornice. Eight-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash windows to front and rear elevations of main block. Camber-headed openings to end bays of ground floor of front elevation, having tooled limestone sills, recessed rendered reveals, lined-and-ruled voussoirs and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Blind square-headed openings to ground floor of front elevation, central opening having tooled limestone sill and fixed four-pane timber window. Square-headed openings to rear walls of porches having tooled limestone sills and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed opening to east elevation of east porch, having tooled limestone sill, tripartite six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with spoked fanlight. Round-headed opening to west elevation of west porch, having spoked fanlight. Blind or blocked square-headed half-basement opening to west wall of west porch, having tooled limestone surround. Square-headed openings to porch entrances having tooled limestone surrounds comprising pilasters and moulded pediment with scroll brackets, east porch having replacement timber panelled door with side-panel and overlight and west having timber panelled double-leaf door with flagstone approach. Situated within rendered enclosing wall with rendered gate piers and recent wrought-iron double-leaf gate.

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1870–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic Church, built 1875-91, facing west and comprising four-bay nave having four-bay side aisles, two-bay transepts, chancel with clerestory addition to north-east side, side chapels to north and south sides of chancel, three-stage bell-tower to south-west corner of west front, double-height porch to north-east, gable-fronted porches to west side of transepts. Pitched artificial slate roofs to nave, aisles, transepts, clerestories and porches, hipped roof to chancel and tooled stone octagonal spire to tower. Tooled stone copings and cross finials to gables and porches. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls built to courses, having chamfered limestone block-capped plinth, rubble limestone buttresses with limestone quoins and capping, and tooled limestone recesses to transepts. Tooled limestone string courses to upper stages of tower with tooled limestone walls to top stage with shoulders and dripstones, iron clock faces with carved hood-mouldings to all but north elevation of second stage. Lead-lined latticework windows to rest of building. Two-light pointed arch openings to nave and transepts, with chamfered stone sills and surrounds, polychrome voussoirs. Bipartite openings to aisles, porch and nave gable elevations with oeil-de-boeuf lights over to aisles with quarter and cinquefoil openings to porch and nave, having tooled limestone sills, plate tracery and shouldered hood-mouldings with polychrome voussoirs. Pointed arch openings to bottom stage of tower having stone sills and surrounds, polychrome voussoirs. Multifoil rose windows to west front, north porch and transepts with tooled limestone plate tracery and groups of five pointed arch openings to transepts below rose windows. Bipartite pointed-shouldered openings to chancel and clerestories having quatrefoil openings over, stone sills and surrounds having shouldered stone hood-moulding and polychrome voussoirs. Bipartite openings to north-east clerestory having square-headed shouldered openings with quatre-foil over, tooled limestone surrounds and plate tracery to quatrefoil window with some timber casement windows to shouldered openings. Square-headed shouldered openings to nave and north facing buttress of tower having tooled limestone sills, surrounds. Pointed arch openings to entrances to nave, tower and porch having tooled limestone recessed surrounds, hood-mouldings and polychrome voussoirs (south and west), rubble stone voussoirs to porch, with battened timber double and single-leaf doors. Square headed openings elsewhere having battened timber doors. Square-headed, shouldered openings to transepts (east) having tooled stone surrounds, quatrefoil overlights and stone stepped approaches with cast-iron bootscrapes. Interior has barrel-vaulted timber ceiling to nave, panelled vaulted ceiling to chancel, panelled ceiling to porch with moulded plaster work, having tooled limestone supporting piers to aisles, and sculpted marble reredos of 1907 to chancel with marble altar. Timber-framed organ gallery to west end of nave, and ornate painted decorations to walls of chancel.

• Saint Joseph's Convent, convent/nunnery, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey former convent, built 1855, having gabled entrance breakfront, and advanced end bays (western being that of former convent chapel). Now in use as sheltered accommodation for the elderly. Recent extensions to rear elevation and west end. Pitched artificial slate roofs having lead-clad coping, and tooled stone cross finials to gables of entrance and of former chapel, and hipped artificial slate roof to east end bay. Painted roughcast rendered walls having tooled limestone string course and quoins. Square-headed openings having tooled limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Triple-light pointed-arch opening to former chapel gable with continuous hood-moulding, moulded render surround with hood-moulding, mullions in form of engaged columns having foliate decorated capitals and replacement uPVC windows. Elliptical-headed opening to entrance having tooled limestone surround comprising paired pilasters, scroll brackets and cornice, having timber panelled door with sidelights having stained-glass over carved limestone panels, and spoked fanlight.

• Saint Joseph's Convent, school, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached twelve-bay two-storey over basement, irregular-plan former industrial school, built 1858, having projecting gable-fronted bays to front elevation. Projecting gable-fronted single-bay two-storey addition to east end with four-bay side elevation, additional blocks to rear comprising lower two-bay two-storey block to east end, pitched-roof block towards centre having three-bay two-storey lean-to addition to its west, hip-roofed single-bay two-storey and four-bay two-storey with dormer floor blocks further to west. Now vacant. Pitched slate roofs to gable-fronted bays with stone cross finials and concrete coping, hipped slate roof to central block, pitched tiled roof to west block, slate to pitched and lean-to roofs to rear blocks and artificial slate to hip-roofed blocks. Cast-iron, replacement uPVC and aluminium rainwater goods and painted rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, painted to south and west having render quoins, plinth and string course. Square-headed openings having tooled limestone sills throughout with exception of lean-to block. Timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane to front and west elevations, six-over-six pane to pitched and lean-to blocks, two-over-two pane to hip-roofed blocks. Round-headed openings to middle gable-fronted bays of front elevation and to top floor of hip-roofed blocks, having tooled limestone sills, with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to dormers, spoked fanlight to single-bay block and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash window to one front projecting gable with spoked fanlight having stained-glass margins and central panel, and replacement timber window to a second projection. Square-headed openings to eastern projection and to west addition, having tripartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, having overlight to first floor of eastern projection. Replacement timber windows to western addition. Square-headed openings to entrances in middle projetions, having replacement battened and panelled timber doors with concrete and limestone stepped approaches. Five-bay two-storey former house to east, having hipped slate roof and rendered chimneystack, lined-and-ruled rendered walls, round-headed openings having concrete sills and timber awning windows, square-headed openings to rear elevations having timber sliding sash windows, and square-headed door openings.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  End of terrace two-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, having flat-roofed porch. Flat roof and gutters concealed behind parapet with moulded rendered architrave and cornice decoration, rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron down pipes. Painted rendered walls with rendered plinth and having rendered sill-band to first floor, and raised render quoins. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills, raised rendered surrounds and replacmement uPVC windows. Porches have moulded cornices and square-headed windows with render kneed and shouldered surrounds. Rubble stone enclosing wall to rear, having cut-stone quoins and concrete coping, with square-headed entrance to yard.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, having flat-roofed porch shared with neighbouring house. Flat roof and gutters concealed behind parapet with moulded rendered architrave and cornice decoration, rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron down pipes. Painted rendered walls with rendered plinth and having rendered sill-band to first floor, and raised render quoins. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills, raised rendered surrounds and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Porches have moulded cornices and square-headed windows with render kneed and shouldered surrounds, and timber battened door with limestone step. Rubble stone enclosing wall to rear, having cut-stone quoins and concrete coping, with square-headed entrance to yard.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, having flat-roofed porch shared with neighbouring house. Flat roof and gutters concealed behind parapet with moulded rendered architrave and cornice decoration, rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron down pipes. Painted rendered walls with rendered plinth and having rendered sill-band to first floor, and raised render quoins. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills, raised rendered surrounds and replacement uPVC windows. Porches have moulded cornices and square-headed windows with render kneed and shouldered surrounds. Coursed rubble stone enclosing wall to rear, having cut-stone quoins and concrete coping, with square-headed entrance to yard, and two-storey coursed rubble outbuilding with moulded cornice and flat roof and having external stairs to first floor.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  End of terrace two-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, having three-bay side elevation and flat-roofed porch. Flat roof and gutters concealed behind parapet with moulded rendered architrave and cornice decoration, rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron down pipes. Painted rendered walls with rendered plinth and having rendered sill-band to first floor, and raised render quoins. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills, raised rendered surrounds and some two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and some replacement uPVC windows. Porches have moulded cornices and square-headed windows with render kneed and shouldered surrounds, and timber battened door with limestone step. Rubble stone enclosing wall to rear, having cut-stone quoins and concrete coping, with square-headed entrance to yard.

• The Grain Store, store/warehouse, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay four-storey former warehouse, built 1829, now derelict, having gablet to middle bay of front elevation and carriage arch attached to north-east end. Exposed rubble limestone walls, rendered to south-west gable, and having roughly dressed quoins. Square-headed window openings with stone lintels to end bays and voussoirs to middle bay. Square-headed opening to entrance in middle bay, with stone voussoirs. Rubble limestone enclosing wall adjoining to north-east with camber carriage arch. Located on quayside.

• Tomás Ó Faoláin Monument, monument, 1950–1970 · Regional interest
  Description

  Carved limestone high cross, erected c.1960. Cross has panels of interlace to front and north faces, moulded base and stands atop limestone pedestal having moulded cornice, stepped base and inscriptions to front and north faces, front in Irish and recent to north face in English. Cross and pedestal stands atop concrete plinth with knotwork decoration and carved inscriptions on the northern and eastern elevations. Commemorates Tomás Ó Faoláin who died in the War of Independence.

• The Kirk, church/chapel, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Combined former Methodist chapel and manse, built c.1860. Three-bay double-height chapel to west end over basement and two-bay two-storey residence and schoolroom. Projecting porch to middle of front elevation, later single-storey over basement, recent metal-clad addition to rear, and roofless lean-to addition to west gable. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack, and replacement metal and uPVC rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered walls. Plain render plaque over porch door. Square-headed window openings to east end with label-mouldings, painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Pointed arch window openings to west end with painted stone sills and fixed small-pane margined timber lights. Round-headed entrance to east end with raised rendered reveals, hood-moulding, and replacement uPVC door, pointed arch entrance to porch with moulded raised reveals, hood-moulding, and recessed double-leaf replacement uPVC doors. Rendered boundary wall to front with decorative metal railings.

• The Central, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey former house, built c.1880, now in use as public house and guesthouse. Flat-roofed canted bay windows to end bays of front elevation. Pitched slate roof, rendered chimneystacks, concrete coping to east gable, and concealed rainwater goods behind moulded render eaves course with render corbels. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with raised rendered quoins. Bay windows have rendered parapets with moulded copings and panelled friezes with moulded and dentillated cornices beneath. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, top floor windows having moulded jambs and render detail to sills, first floor windows have moulded cornices, foliated scrollwork brackets, and render details to frieze. Each ground floor window has render plinth with moulded render coping, moulded render string course continuing over opening. Replacement timber and uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed opening to entrance with flanking render pilasters, having foliate decoration to brackets and detached segmental pediment with dentils, and replacement double-leaf timber door.

• John Mannion, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey building, built c.1850, formerly two houses, now in use as commercial outlet and having shopfronts to ground floor. Pitched slate roof having render coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls, lined and ruled to first floor and channelled to ground floor, with sill course to first floor. Square-headed window openings having raised render reveals and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor. Shopfronts to ground floor comprise painted render plinths, with plain painted fascia and having fixed timber display windows. Square-headed openings to entrances, with carved glazed timber double-leaf main door and timber panelled second door, with overlights.

• Clifden Railway Station, railway station, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached former railway station and goods shed, built 1895. Former station building comprises L-plan two-storey block having three-bay front and platform elevations, and five-bay single-storey ticket office and waiting room block to east. Recent slightly lower two-storey extension to west, and with extension of east block northwards over original station platform. Two-bay single-storey former goods shed to east recently raised to two storeys, and having lower recent flat-roofed extension to south side. Pitched pantiled roofs, with tile ridge cresting, cut limestone copings, lead-clad flat roof to former north extension, polychrome brick chimneystacks, and metal and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Timber truss to south-facing gable. Red-brick walls, with black brick bands also including sill and impost levels, and red brick plinth. Painted timber station signs appended to eastern extension. Round roof vent to east gable with rubbed brick surround and timber louvre. Brick plinth wall to northern extension, with glazed timber sides above, and glazed timber cladding to first floor of western extension. Camber-headed window openings, paired and tripled to north gable, with limestone sills, moulded brick jambs and rubbed brick arches with rubbed brick label-mouldings and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Camber-headed openings to entrances in front and east elevations, with polychrome moulded brick surrounds, rubbed brick arches, and replacement timber doors with overlights. Former goods shed has recent timber-clad first floor and artificial slate roof, exposed rubble limestone walls with red brick quoins, camber-headed entrance openings to north elevation having red brick surrounds and remains of wrought-iron door rails.

• Clifden Railway Station, locomotive shed, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height former engine house, built 1895, now in use as museum. Pitched artificial slate roof with replacement uPVC rainwater goods and with oversailing brick eaves courses to gables. Exposed red brick walls with square-headed recesses to main elevations, and red brick buttress to east end with chamfered limestone capping stones. Round-headed window openings having limestone sills, rubbed red brick arches with fixed timber windows to exterior of cast-iron inner windows to main elevations. Round-headed openings to east gable, having rubbed red brick arches and replacement aluminium windows. Round-headed opening to entrance, with red brick voussoirs, replacement aluminium door and overlight. Single-bay two-stage water tower to east, having steel water tank to roof and eaves course of bricks, rock-faced limestone walls with red brick quoins, oeil-de-beouf openings to north and south faces with red brick surrounds and recent glazing. Rubble limestone platform to east, roofless building to east, possibly formerly coal store, having rubble limestone walls, brick quoins and surrounds to openings and remains of cast-iron door rail to entrance.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, now used as public house, bistro and guest house. Incorporates slightly lower two-storey properties to east and west. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, parapet with moulded cornice having foliate frieze below, with dormer additions and hidden rainwater goods. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with moulded cornice between floors, moulded brackets and cornices to first floor window openings. Square-headed window openings with moulded rendered surrounds and replacement uPVC windows to first floor, and four-paned fixed timber casement shopfront windows with stone sills to ground floor. Square-headed openings to entrances, having moulded render surrounds with replacement timber glazed doors and overlights.

• Prison/jail, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding former jail, built c.1830, comprising two-bay two-storey guard block with later four-bay two-storey cell block to east within battered rubble limestone enclosing wall. Remains of gables to east and west elevations of guard block having two-stage limestone and red brick chimneystack with render and casemated internal ceilings. Roughcast rendered rubble limestone walls, battered with limestone string course to guard block. Square-headed openings having limestone sills and lintels, block-and-start surrounds to guard block, cast-iron bars throughout. Windows vary in size with smaller openings to cell block windows. Square-headed openings to block and wall entrances having limestone block lintels and surrounds with recent steel gate to wall entrance. Limestone staircase to interior.

• Christ Church (Omey), graveyard/cemetery, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding limestone tomb, erected 1839, as burial place of John D'Arcy, founder of Clifden. Pecked and tooled limestone plinth, sides and roof. Inscriptions to all sides, those to gable ends being set in shield devices and commemorating John and his wife, one long side with plaque commemorating their daughters and other long side bearing passage from bible. Tomb situated to south-west of church close in sloping graveyard.

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Radon

At the centre of the townland of Clifden, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_19 (ZIP).

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

Name

Clifden · An Clochán

Area

1,276,047 m² (127.6 ha, 315.32 acres)

Civil parish

Omey, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Clifden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,059 people lived in 796 households in the Clifden electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardbear, Cloghaunard, Letterdeen, Shanakeever, Tullyvoheen

Placenames

Clifden 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.