Cloghanower

157 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghanower, from 29 m² to 81,042 m² (8.1 ha, 20.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 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 Cloghanower 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 May 2026N/a

  to demolish an existing milking parlour and construct agricultural storage shed

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660675

• 28 Mar 2025Conditional

  to construct a four bay slatted cattle shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 192 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2555

• 15 Mar 2022Conditional

  Construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed.Gross floor space of proposed works 360 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260235

• 11 Feb 2022Refused

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling: 145sqm, Garage: 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22173

• 1 Jun 2021Refused

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed at the above address. Gross floor space of proposed works 145 sqm dwelling & 60 sqm garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21966

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 Cloghanower.

Recorded monuments

• GA056-054001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a low mound in low-lying undulating pastureland. A poorly preserved tower: only SW wall (L 9.1m) and the returns of NW and SE walls survive to a height of three storeys. There is an intramural chamber/passage in SW wall on 2nd floor. Immediately adjoining this, at the same level, are the springings of a narrow stone vault running NW-SE: possibly to support a latrine passage between 2nd/3rd floors. A doorway in S corner on 1st floor probably gives access to the angled bartizan which is visible externally on this corner. All the windows are rectangular with flat heads. A church (GA056-055001-) lies c. 280m to SE and a possible standing stone (GA056-054002-) 35m, also to SE. (Nolan 1901a, 27; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 187) 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

• GA056-054002 Standing stone
  Description

  Some 35m SE of Cloghanover Castle (GA056-054001-). It comprises a squat limestone boulder (L 0.6m, Wth 0.35m, H 0.6m), its long axis running NW-SE. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 187), this stone is known locally as 'Cloch an Uabhair'. It is reputed 'to have been cast hither from a distant hill by a witch called Cailleach an Uabhair who impressed the marks of her thumb and three fingers in it' (ibid.). Two other similar boulders are also visible in the vicinity of the castle, 1m to W and 40m to NNE respectively. 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

• GA056-055001 Church
  Description

  On a low rise at S end of a small house cluster called Cloneen; it stands within a roughly triangular graveyard (GA056-055002-). According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 186), 'the present old church of Kill-Eidhne [which] is certainly not more than 4 centuries old, ... [probably] occupies the site of a more ancient church'. What survives is a poorly preserved and ivy-mantled rectangular building (NW-SE; L > 8.15m, Wth 5.4m), probably of medieval date. Only half of SE gable and adjoining sections of SW and NE side-walls stand above foundation level. The only surviving architectural features are a small rectangular window in SW wall, and part of the embrasure of a centrally placed pointed arch window in SE gable. This gable fell during a storm early in 1990. No visible surface trace survives of the rectangular building labelled 'R.C. Chapel' (GA056-055003-), which is shown on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map on N boundary of the graveyard. A holy well (GA056-058----) lies c. 200m to N and a castle (GA056-054001-) 280m to NW. 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

• GA056-055002 Graveyard
  Description

  Immediately to the S of the roadway. This graveyard (c. 90m NW-SE; c. 54m NE-SW), subtriangular in plan, is delimited by a wall of mortared uncut limestone blocks topped with coping stones. Access is gained through the original gateway at NNW and a more recent gateway at ESE; there is a stile to the N of the latter entrance. The remains of a medieval church (GA056-055001-) stand roughly in the centre of the interior. Graveslabs and table tombs date from the 18th century; 19th- and 20th-century graveslabs are also visible as well as numbers uninscribed grave-markers. The earliest recorded graveslab dates to the 17th century and it is now set into the external face of the graveyard wall, to the W of the original gateway - see GA056-055004-. Another graveslab is set into the wall to the S of the gateway but its inscription is illegible. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 25 July 2023

• GA056-055003 Church
  Description

  Located at the NW end of a burial ground (GA056-055002-) associated with a medieval church (GA056-055001-). Named 'R.C. Chapel' on the 1938 edition of the OS 6-inch map and depicted as a roofed rectangular building (c. 22m NNE-SSW; c. 8m NNW-SSE). On the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16), it is labelled 'School'. No visible trace survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 27 July 2023

• GA056-055004 Graveslab
  Description

  This 17th-century graveslab is set into the external face of the enclosing wall of the graveyard (GA056-055002-) associated with the medieval church (GA056-055001-) that is roughly centrally located within it. It is located to to the W of the original entrance gateway at the WNW end of the wall. The top of the slab is decorated with the IHS monogram and a Latin cross rises from the bar of the letter H. Below it is the following inscription (details provided by Dr C. Cunniffe): PRAY FOR YE SOVL OF FA CARBRY KEA NVAN V G T WHO DYED YE 25TH SEPT EMBER ANO DNI 161(?) HIS ANCESTORS WHO CAVSED THIS MON VMENT TO BE MADE Another graveslab is set into the wall to the S of the gateway but its inscription is illegible. The following image, courtesy of Dr C. Cunniffe, has been uploaded: GA056-055004-_01.jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 25 July 2023

• GA056-056 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in grassland. Roughly circular ringfort (D 41.2m), in fair condition, defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The outer bank and fosse do not survive at E, and the inner bank is overlain by a field wall in this sector. There is an entrance gap with possible causeway at W. 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

• GA056-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 48m). 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

• GA056-058 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Some 200m N of a church (GA056-055001-), adjacent to a small stream. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 187), it was called 'St. Eny's holy well ... a large and venerable ash tree grows over it'. 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

• Windfort Cottage, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having dormer attic and with late twentieth-century extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with flush ridge and cement copings to front slope and slated to rear slope, with two rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with raised quoins, and eaves course. Square-headed window openings with raised render reveals and replacement timber windows. Eight-panel glazed timber door. Set parallel to road with rendered rubble stone boundary wall, and farm buildings to 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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Cloghanower.

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

Name

Cloghanower · Cloch an Uabhair

Area

1,634,478 m² (163.45 ha, 403.89 acres)

Civil parish

Killeany, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killeany, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killeany electoral division: 617 people in 218 households; 85% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahergal, Clooneen, Cuilleen, Gortrory or Rogersfield, Keernaun, Lisheennageeha, Muckcoort, Rafwee

Placenames

Cloghanower 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.