Temple

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Temple, from 883 m² to 347,179 m² (34.72 ha, 85.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Temple 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.

• 1 May 2026N/a

  for the change of use of former schoolhouse to residential use and the construction of a single storey extension, construction of on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660670

• 17 Aug 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment system, percolation area and rainwater harvesting system. The works to include all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 230 sqm (H) & 59 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22978

• 5 Jul 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 197 sqm. (garage) 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18938

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  for construction of a new one and two storey dwelling house, and a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, access road and all associated site development and external works. Gross floor space of proposed works 350sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171879

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 Temple.

Recorded monuments

• GA072-057 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland, c. 80m N of the ruins of Temple House. A well-preserved rectangular enclosure (E-W 40m, N-S 37.5m) defined by an earthen bank along W and E sides and elsewhere by a scarp. Centrally placed within the interior is a smaller almost square platform (E-W 13m, N-S 12.5m) upon which is a low flat-topped rectangular mound (E-W 5.2m, N-S 3.5m, H 1m). Though Knox (1916, 206) refers to it as being 'certainly an ancient work', its morphology, close proximity to Temple House and its absence from 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map suggest that it is a landscape feature or folly or recent date. (Knox 1918, 92) 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

• GA072-058 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Enda's National School, school, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey schoolhouse, dated 1887, having lean-to porch to south with replacement slate roof. Pitched natural slate roof with red brick chimneystacks to gables. Half-round cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with rendered skirting band to base. Square-headed six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with render reveals and tooled limestone sills. Timber battened entrance door in east side of porch. Limestone plaque in east elevation reads 'Scoil Éanna Naomhtha Scoil Náisiúnta' and second reads 'Gorteen National School 1887'. Small garden to front with rendered limestone boundary wall having stone chamfered coping.

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 Temple, 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 Temple.

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

Name

Temple · An Teampall

Area

822,084 m² (82.21 ha, 203.14 acres)

Civil parish

Clonkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Cappalusk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

416 people lived in 144 households in the Cappalusk electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Clogh, Gortnalone North, Knockaboy

Placenames

Temple 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.