Drumminacloghaun

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumminacloghaun, from 166 m² to 195,406 m² (19.54 ha, 48.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P1Agriculture
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  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.

• 27 May 2026Conditional

  of a dwelling house and garage on a site with revised site boundaries, provision of a 'granny flat'/self-contained residential unit linked to the dwelling house including a rear ground floor extension along with minor elevation alterations and effluent treatment system including percolation area to replace the existing septic tank system, and for all ancillary services and site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2660836

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 Drumminacloghaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA122-076 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a low sand and gravel ridge. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 37m NE-SW; c. 34m NW-SE). On inspection in May 1986 no visible surface trace survived. According to the landowner, the area was quarried out c. 1960 and as a result the ground level had been lowered by several metres. A house has since been built on the site. Possibly a ringfort. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 March 2019

• GA122-077 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In low-lying farmland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 42m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW). A house and associated small field occupied the interior. No visible surface trace survives. Extensive field clearance has occurred in this area. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 July 2019

• GA122-078 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  In mixed farmland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a large subcircular enclosure (c. 77m NE-SW; c. 75m NE-SW) with a wide gap at SW. On inspection in September 1982 no visible surface trace was visible and a silage pit was evident in the interior. However, on the OSi digitalglobe AP the cropmark outline of the enclosure is clearly visible as a darker band of vegetation. A large shed now also occupies the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 December 2017

• GA122-079 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. c. 35m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Rubble is piled along the inner face of the outer bank from N to NE and from NE to ENE it is overlain by a much-collapsed field wall. A causewayed gap (Wth 3.5m) at ESE may be original. There is a souterrain (GA122-079001-) in the N sector of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 December 2017

• GA122-079001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the N sector of a rath (GA122-079----). This well-preserved drystone-built souterrain (L >19m) consists of two separate chambers that appear to have been originally connected by a now partially blocked creep. Access to the 1st chamber (L 7.4m; Wth 2m max.; H 1.2m), which runs NE-SW, is gained via a breach in the roof. A creep (Wth 0.9m; H 0.45m) midway along its W wall extends W for a distance of 2m and is then blocked by rubble. It probably accessed chamber 2 which lies c. 3.9m to the W. An area of collapse separates both chambers at ground level. A small alcove is also visible towards the S end of the W wall of chamber 1. An opening, now blocked, in its S end suggests that it was the original entrance to the souterrain. The 2nd chamber (L 7.8m; Wth 1.9m max.; H 1.85m), which runs E-W, is accessed via a breach in the roof at its E end. Rubble extends into the chamber to the W of the breach for a distance of 3m but beyond it, it is possible to stand upright. The collapse to the E of the breach suggests that the chamber continued further to the E towards the creep. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 December 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumminacloghaun.

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 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_728 (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.

No address of the register names Drumminacloghaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Drumminacloghaun · Droiminn an Chlocháin

Area

843,656 m² (84.37 ha, 208.47 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Beagh electoral division: 789 people in 274 households; 92% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhugh, Ballylennan, Ballysheedy, Newtown

Placenames

Drumminacloghaun 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.