Cloghnakeava
Townland in the civil parish of Beagh, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway; in Irish Cloch na Céibhe
- Area
- 104.5 ha
- 258 acres
- Land parcels
- 69
- registered freehold, median 3,249 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- R4
- Residential (Phase 2)
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghnakeava, from 122 m² to 128,313 m² (12.83 ha, 31.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R4Residential (Phase 2) (Strategic Residential Reserve)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.2Industrial (General industry)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Business & Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Mar 2026Conditional
of a rear extension to an existing dwelling house
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660461
15 May 2025Conditional
to construct 2 No. Warehouse / storage units with access onto the R458 through permitted Entrance and access road and development approved under Pl. Ref. No. 2361429. Provision for pedestrian access through permitted development onto the Ennis Road (R458). Connection to Public mains water infrastructure, including connection to existing foul drainage network to serve the development and provision of communal open space areas, bicycle parking, footpaths, public lighting, bin storage areas,on site surface water drainage, revised boundary treatments, together with all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 7,603.00 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 2560594
9 Feb 2023Refused
for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system.Gross floor space of proposed works 251.00sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360093
19 May 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 197.66 sqm (dwelling house) and 24 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260507
9 Mar 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling House 197.66m2 & Garage 24m2
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260197
9 Dec 2021N/a
to construct a dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 255 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212323
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 Cloghnakeava.
Recorded monuments
- GA123-032 Ringfort - cashel
Description
In pastureland. Subcircular cashel (36.8m NNW-SSE; 31.5m WSW-ESE), in fair condition, defined by a grassed-over drystone wall. Either of two gaps at ESE (Wth 2.6m) and S (Wth 1.7m) could be original. There is a souterrain (GA123-032001-) in the WSW sector of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 November 2017
- GA123-032001 Souterrain
Description
Within the WSW sector of a cashel (GA123-032----). This rectangular drystone-built passage (L 7.7m; Wth 1.5m; H 1.8m) runs NNW-SSE. Access is gained at its SSE end. An air vent (Wth 0.6m; H 0.15m) is visible in the NE side-wall, 2.5m from the entrance. Another possible example (Wth 0.5m; Wth 0.15m) occurs about midway along this wall. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 November 2017
- GA129-009 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a steep rise in farmland, some 120m N of the Beagh River. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 35m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall; traces of inner and outer wall-facing are visible intermittently. Several trees are growing along the enclosing element. An external fosse, apparently modern, is visible at N. A souterrain (GA129-009001-) lies in the S half of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 November 2017
- GA129-009001 Souterrain
Description
Within the S half of a cashel (GA129-009001-). This partially collapsed drystone-built souterrain (L >14m) is L-shaped in plan and consists of two passages connected by a drop-hole creep. The 1st passage (L 9m; Wth 1.8m; H 0.3m) runs SE-NW; the creep (L 1.4m; Wth 0.5m; H0.3m) extends from its NW end. Due to collapse both of these sections are inaccessible. Traces of a small N-S running recess evident near the NW end of the S side-wall of the creep may indicate an air vent or another creep. The 2nd passage (L c. 5m; Wth 1.7m; H 1.2-1.5m) extends from the creep and runs NE-SW. Access is gained via a breach at its NE end. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 November 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloghnakeava.
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
- About 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_805 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloghnakeava with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cloghnakeava · Cloch na Céibhe
- Area
- 1,045,403 m² (104.54 ha, 258.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Beagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kiltartan
- Electoral division
- Gort, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gort electoral division: 3,186 people in 1,175 households; 55% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Beagh, Carragh, Carrowgarriff, Gortstuckanagh, Lavally, Rindifin
- Placenames
- Cloghnakeava 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.