Culliagh North

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Culliagh North, from 2 m² to 243,894 m² (24.39 ha, 60.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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 Culliagh North 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.

• 18 Mar 2025Refused

  for the (i) construction a glazed entrance porch to front of existing supermarket, (ii) construction of covered outdoor customer seating area, (iii) change of use of an existing retail unit to use as a café, new café signage and associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560279

• 7 Oct 2021Conditional

  for (a) Material Change of Use for Unit 3 from Commercial to Residential (95sqm), (b) Conversion of 2 Existing Units (Unit 2 & 3) to 1 Dwelling Unit (183sqm), (c) Alterations to said Units including the Front and Rear Elevations & all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211852

• 28 Nov 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and for all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 214.0sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171704

• 11 Oct 2017Conditional

  for the construction of new 2 storey dwelling along with garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 239sqm, Garage 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171472

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA058-054 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland overlooking bogland and the Abbert River to N. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives and a local person recalled that the site was used as a source of gravel. 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

• GA058-055 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On N-facing slope of a rise in grassland. Poorly preserved roughly circular rath (D c. 45m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is present from SE through S to W, and a scarp forms the enclosing element from N through E to SE. The fosse survives at S. Quarrying has disturbed the monument at 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

• GA058-056 Designed landscape feature
  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.

• GA058-057 Leacht cuimhne
  Description

  On E side of roadway, to SW of the monastic complex (GA058-004001-). A roughly built mortared stone pier (L 1.3m, Wth 1.22m, H 2.7m) erected on a stone plinth. The monument tapers slightly towards the top where it is capped by a rectangular stone, on top of which a small pillar stone rises. A recess in N wall probably held a commemorative plaque. 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

• GA058-058 Architectural fragment
  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.

• GA058-085 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On W-facing slope in grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m). A house and garden now occupy the site and 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

• Monument, 1710–1730 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding limestone monument, built c.1720. Square plan with pyramidal cap having projecting flat stone slab cutting off apex and vertical stone pillar protruding from slab. Moulded string course below cap. Rest of monument constructed of random rubble. Square-headed recess to north for plaque. Set in open field adjacent to housing estate with random rubble boundary wall to road.

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 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 Culliagh North.

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

Name

Culliagh North · An Choilleach Thuaidh

Area

1,304,057 m² (130.41 ha, 322.24 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyknockmoy, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Abbey West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbey West electoral division: 884 people in 290 households; 86% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbey, Ballynakilla, Culliagh South, Liss, Pollawarla

Placenames

Culliagh North 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.