# Oldcastle, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilconierin, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Seanchaisleán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 448,484 m² (44.85 ha, 110.82 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,526 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilconierin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilconierin.md - Barony: Dunkellin - Electoral division: Kiltullagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 827 people lived in 264 households in the Kiltullagh electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20100 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63477 - Centre: latitude 53.2629, longitude -8.671524 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldcastle, from 18 m² to 180,226 m² (18.02 ha, 44.53 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 6112305: 180,226 m² (18.02 ha, 44.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6112305.md - Parcel 1959658: 94,200 m² (9.42 ha, 23.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959658.md - Parcel 4974088: 47,627 m² (4.76 ha, 11.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4974088.md - Parcel 2087649: 37,829 m² (3.78 ha, 9.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087649.md - Parcel 2087652: 35,364 m² (3.54 ha, 8.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087652.md - Parcel 2039128: 34,040 m² (3.4 ha, 8.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039128.md - Parcel 2039127: 33,642 m² (3.36 ha, 8.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039127.md - Parcel 2087651: 24,847 m² (2.48 ha, 6.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087651.md - Parcel 2087650: 18,206 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087650.md - Parcel 2039129: 16,121 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039129.md - Parcel 2087653: 10,035 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087653.md - Parcel 2087654: 2,745 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087654.md - Parcel 4686701: 2,744 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4686701.md - Parcel 2039125: 2,671 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039125.md - Parcel 2039126: 1,615 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039126.md - Parcel 6114623: 18 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6114623.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Oldcastle in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 8 Feb 2024, Galway County Council 2439: N/a. Permission. to construct a silage slab. Gross floor space of proposed works: 651 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2439/0 - 9 Jul 2020, Galway County Council 20895: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a new modern garage structure which will consist of the following, small workshop, garage & Fuel storage/Drying Area (area 89 sqm) to the Northwest of existing house approved under Planning Ref 09/2197, and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 89 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20895/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Oldcastle. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA096-144: Castle - motte and bailey, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA096-144----. In undulating pastureland, c. 100m to the S of the old course of the Dooyertha River and c. 250m to the E of Rathgorgin Castle (GA096-151----). Orpen (1916, 34-44) recorded that this motte and bailey was known locally as ‘Cruckawootha’ or the 'Knock of the Moat' and he suggested that it ‘was erected by Gilbert de Angulo or one of his feoffees [sic] about the close of the 12th century’. It is defined by a steep-sided flat-topped and very heavily overgrown circular mound of earth and stone (diam. 31m; H 4.45m), which is encircled by a wide deep fosse (Wth 3.2m) and an outer bank (base Wth 7.6m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.8m) from NE through S to NW. Orpen (ibid., 39-40) also described a bailey (41m N-S), defined by a scarp, which extended off the motte to the N; it narrowed towards its N end (Wth c. 20m). His plan shows a circular building (GA096-144001-) and a possible enclosure (GA096-114002-) at the NW end of the bailey and he also referred to another enclosure (GA096-144003-) to the E of the motte. No visible surface traces of the latter features survive but the outline of the bailey is indicated by a slight rise in the ground level. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 425; McCaffrey 1952, 163, no. 39) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 December 2019 - GA096-144001: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA096-144001-. Associated with a motte and bailey (GA096-144----). Orpen (1916, 39) recorded that 'In the N.W. angle of the bailey, a ring seems to mark the site of a tower, or small circular building [GA096-14001-], while there are traces of an enclosure [GA096-144002-], 12 ft. by 12 ft. [3.6m by 3.6m] close by.' No visible surface trace of these features survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 December 2019 - GA096-144002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA096-144002-. Associated with a motte and bailey (GA096-144----). Orpen (1916, 39) recorded that 'In the N.W. angle of the bailey, a ring seems to mark the site of a tower, or small circular building [GA096-14001-], while there are traces of an enclosure [GA096-144002-], 12 ft. by 12 ft. [3.6m by 3.6m] close by.' No visible surface trace of these features survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 December 2019 - GA096-144003: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA096-144003-. Associated with a motte and bailey (GA096-144----). Orpen (1916, 39-40) recorded what seemed to be 'another enclosure … 38 paces' to the E of the fosse of the motte. It was defined by 'a ditch, 12 feet [3.6m] wide, running right across the esker' and 'traces of a rampart and ditch' joined 'this ditch with the mote at the S. side and more faintly at the N'. The latter features were '38 paces' apart. The enclosure is not shown on his plan. On inspection in June 1982 this feature was not noted and it is not visible on aerial imagery. Not precisely located. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 December 2019 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oldcastle. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Oldcastle, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Oldcastle. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/oldcastle.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/oldcastle.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/oldcastle.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Oldcastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Caherakilleen: https://everytownland.com/galway/caherakilleen.md - Carrownamorrissy: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrownamorrissy.md - Curragh More: https://everytownland.com/galway/curragh-more-61657.md - Rathgorgin: https://everytownland.com/galway/rathgorgin.md - Skeagharegan: https://everytownland.com/galway/skeagharegan.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/oldcastle - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/oldcastle