Eskerboy

123 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eskerboy, from 1,111 m² to 233,914 m² (23.39 ha, 57.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 65 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Eskerboy 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Eskerboy 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.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Eskerboy Bog NHA 001264

Recorded monuments

• GA107-065 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Circular rath (diam. 27m), in fair condition, defined by a bank which is overgrown with whitethorn bushes. A gap (Wth 1.5m) at NE may be original. Field banks run to the W and S of the site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 December 2017

• GA107-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in grassland. Marked on the 1945 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m), overlain by a curving field boundary from NW to SE. No visible surface trace survives. The cartographic evidence suggests that this was probably a rath similar to those c. 250m to the NW (GA107-017----) and c. 260m to the ENE (GA107-065----) respectively. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 March 2019

• GA107-067 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a hollow, most likely a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

• GA107-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hillock in undulating grassland. This subcircular rath (41m E-W; 36m N-S), in fair condition, is defined by a bank from S through W to N and by a scarp from N through E to S. Some hawthorn trees are growing on the bank. The fosse survives from S through W to N. A possible souterrain (GA107-068001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 December 2017

• GA107-068001 Souterrain
  Description

  According to local information, a souterrain in the SE quadrant of the rath (GA107-068----) was blocked up in the 1930s after a number of sheep fell into it. No visible surface trace of it survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 December 2017

• GA107-069001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On a N-facing slope overlooking a stream. This circular enclosure (D 102m), in fair condition, is defined by an earthen bank and external fosse. The bank (Wth across top 2.7m; Wth base Wth 8.7m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.3m) is visible from SW through N to SE; elsewhere a scarp, overlain by a field bank, forms the enclosing element. The fosse (Wth 3m; D 1m) is best preserved from SSW to NNW; from NNW to SE its line is indicted by a band of dense nettle growth. There is an entrance causeway (Wth 7m) at W. Centrally placed within the interior is a children's burial ground (GA107-069002-), to the N of which are a series of rectangular subdivisions defined by earthen banks. The size of the monument, when coupled with the presence of the children's burial ground, suggests that it is ecclesiastical in character. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 February 2020

• GA107-069002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA107-69001-). This children's burial ground is defined by a poorly preserved rectangular platform (L 12m; Wth 5.4m) upon which numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. A grass-covered stony mound at its N end is probably the result of field clearance. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 August 2019

• GA107-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. This subcircular rath (c. 38m N-S; c. 35m E-W) is defined by a bank and external fosse. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 1.4m) at N. A field bank cuts through it at NE and SE and to the E of it the fosse survives as a vegetation band. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 December 2017

• GA107-071 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be an irregularly shaped, tree-filled hollow, most likely a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

• GA107-072 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Eskerboy, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Eskerboy.

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.

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

Name

Eskerboy · An Eiscir Bhuí

Area

3,005,010 m² (300.5 ha, 742.55 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeygormacan, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Abbeygormacan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

464 people lived in 162 households in the Abbeygormacan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Addergoole, Ballyvaheen, Claremadden, Corbally Beg, Derrew, Gortknappagh, Lurgan More

Placenames

Eskerboy 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.