Clydagh
Townland in the civil parish of Moycullen, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish Claídeach
- Area
- 123.5 ha
- 305 acres
- Land parcels
- 120
- registered freehold, median 2,092 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential Existing
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clydagh, from 6 m² to 153,464 m² (15.35 ha, 37.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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
- R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, 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
3 Oct 2025Conditional
for the demolition of a front entrance porch, rear bay window, rear concrete canopy and chimney. The retention of changes to a first floor extension differing from those granted under Pl. Ref. 151532 and elements of metal standing seam. The construction of single storey extensions to the rear, front and side, a rear first floor balcony, a new raised roof over an existing dining/living area with new front and side rain shelters, new rooflights, sedum roof finish, changes to existing fascia and soffits, a new raised garage roof, front privacy wall, rear cantilevered deck, chimney structure, installation of external wall insulation, new stone cladding and other minor elevational alterations and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561447
11 Oct 2023N/a
for the construction of extensions to existing dwellinghouse, alterations to existing façades & all associated external works
Permission · Galway County Council, 2361216
28 Apr 2022Conditional
of (1) retain attic conversion to existing single-storey dwelling and 2) retain conversion of existing shed to granny flat. Gross floor space of work to be retained 125 sqm.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22569
8 Mar 2019Conditional
to replace existing septic tank with a new wastewater treatment system and retention permission is being sought of existing attic conversion to living accommodation with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space for work to be retained: 106.4 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19331
19 Oct 2018Refused
for 2 no. existing advertising signs, Enforcement Notice EN 18/144.
Retention · Galway County Council, 181496
24 Apr 2018Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 216 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18491
9 Jun 2017Conditional
for a change of use of mill building to a dwelling house with ancillary alterations and for a private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 190.6sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17842
4 May 2017Conditional
for a) a single storey extension to the side of existing house, b) bay window extension to the front of existing house c) internal and external alterations d) a new garden shed e) new proprietary waste water treatment system and filtration area, and f) all associated site works. Gross floor space 49sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 17619
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
- Natural Heritage Area: Moycullen Bogs NHA 002364
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballycuirke Lough 000228
Recorded monuments
- GA081-006 Enclosure
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
- Mill (water), 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding three-bay three-storey former mill, built c.1860, having remains of millrace to north-west, now in use as barn. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and render coping to gables. Rubble-stone walls with corbels to eaves of south-east side elevation. Square-headed window openings having roughly dressed stone lintels and surrounds, windows missing with openings to north-west elevation blocked with rubble. Square-headed door openings having of iron girder lintels, tooled stone block-and-start surrounds (to ground floor). Blocked loading bay to first floor of south-east side elevation. Iron-girder with rubble-stone voussoirs and battened timber door to first-storey of side (north-east) elevation. Mill-race to north-west elevation having stone block wall dividing mill-race from river with rubble-stone pier to divert water to head-race (now blocked). Timber beam floors and stairs survive to the interior. Located beside Clydagh Bridge with rubble-stone abutments linking bridge with mill.
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 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clydagh.
- 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 Clydagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Clydagh · Claídeach
- Area
- 1,235,187 m² (123.52 ha, 305.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moycullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycullen
- Electoral division
- Moycullen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moycullen electoral division: 2,459 people in 837 households; 78% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Addragool, Ballycuirke East, Killagoola, Tooreeny, Uggool
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Clydagh 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.