Cloghagalla Eighter
Cloghagalla Eighter is a townland in the civil parish of Aughrim, barony of Clonmacnowen, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Na Clocha Geala Íochtair.
- Area
- 152.8 ha
- 378 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 3,718 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghagalla Eighter, from 65 m² to 280,692 m² (28.07 ha, 69.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloghagalla Eighter 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Feb 2026Conditional
to sow native trees along river bank, mechanical raking and loosening of existing gravel substrate to improve spawning/riparian habitat for salmonids
Permission · Galway County Council, 2660234
27 May 2022Refused
for dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation bed and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 118.7 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22690
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloghagalla Eighter.
Recorded monuments
- GA087-049 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
In gently undulating grassland. Circular rath (D 34m), in fair condition, defined by a bank. A gap (Wth 6m) at ENE may be original. There is a CBG (GA087-049001-) within the interior. 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
- GA087-049001 Children's burial ground
Description
Within a ringfort (GA087-049----). All that survives is an irregular grass-covered mound, possibly the result of clearance, within which some unmarked limestone blocks protrude. These may be the remains of grave-markers. 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
- GA087-050 House - 18th/19th century
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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloghagalla Eighter.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cloghagalla Eighter, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloghagalla Eighter.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloghagalla Eighter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cloghagalla Eighter · Na Clocha Geala Íochtair
- Area
- 1,527,745 m² (152.77 ha, 377.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aughrim, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonmacnowen
- Electoral division
- Oatfield, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 446 people lived in 149 households in the Oatfield electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyeighter, Cloghagalla Oughter, Cooltymurraghy, Garrynamishaun or Aughrim Plots, Moat, Newcastle
- Placenames
- Cloghagalla Eighter 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.