Cuildooish
Cuildooish is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcolgan, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Coill Dubhais.
- Area
- 105.8 ha
- 261 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 68,782 m² (6.88 ha, 17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuildooish, from 1,734 m² to 165,288 m² (16.53 ha, 40.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Cuildooish 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
No planning application touches the townland of Cuildooish in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Fingall Complex SAC 000606
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fingall Complex 000606
Recorded monuments
- GA103-114 Ringfort - cashel
Description
In rock outcrop. Very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (27.7m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. The townland field boundary cuts across the monument at WSW and ENE and field-clearance rubble obscures the enclosing element to the S of it. (McCaffrey 1952, 193, no. 56) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 December 2017
- GA103-115 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a rise in undulating rough pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 193, no. 101) as an extremely ruinous circular ‘Stone fort’, this cashel (diam. c. 24m) is very poorly preserved and is defined by the intermittent foundation line of a drystone wall. A NNW-SSE running field wall cuts across it from NW to SSW. A rectangular structure (L 3.3m; Wth 1.5m), defined by a collapsed wall, abuts it at E. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cuildooish.
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 Cuildooish, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_682 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cuildooish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cuildooish · Coill Dubhais
- Area
- 1,057,647 m² (105.76 ha, 261.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolgan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Killeenavarra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 903 people lived in 282 households in the Killeenavarra electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherpeak West, Carraghadoo, Carrownacreggaun, Cartron, Frenchpark, Killeenmunterlane South, Muggaunagh
- Placenames
- Cuildooish 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.