# Temple, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Clonkeen, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Teampall.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 822,084 m² (82.21 ha, 203.14 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,851 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Clonkeen, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/clonkeen.md
- Barony: Tiaquin
- Electoral division: Cappalusk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19720
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63989
- Centre: latitude 53.34495, longitude -8.608897 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Temple, from 883 m² to 347,179 m² (34.72 ha, 85.79 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1967750: 347,179 m² (34.72 ha, 85.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967750.md
- Parcel 1931029: 221,012 m² (22.1 ha, 54.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931029.md
- Parcel 4674289: 193,331 m² (19.33 ha, 47.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4674289.md
- Parcel 1933954: 26,295 m² (2.63 ha, 6.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1933954.md
- Parcel 1967749: 17,776 m² (1.78 ha, 4.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967749.md
- Parcel 1954227: 9,251 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1954227.md
- Parcel 1931027: 5,467 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931027.md
- Parcel 1931025: 5,026 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931025.md
- Parcel 6121783: 4,400 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6121783.md
- Parcel 4642370: 3,002 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4642370.md
- Parcel 2435050: 2,860 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2435050.md
- Parcel 2435049: 2,851 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2435049.md
- Parcel 2069631: 2,390 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2069631.md
- Parcel 2022342: 2,282 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2022342.md
- Parcel 4645569: 2,063 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4645569.md
- Parcel 1967751: 2,062 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967751.md
- Parcel 1967748: 2,039 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967748.md
- Parcel 1931026: 1,731 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931026.md
- Parcel 1931028: 1,501 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931028.md
- Parcel 1967752: 1,241 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967752.md
- Parcel 1931030: 1,104 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931030.md
- Parcel 1931024: 1,049 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931024.md
- Parcel 2443656: 883 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2443656.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 1 May 2026, Galway County Council 2660670: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660670/0
- 17 Aug 2022, Galway County Council 22978: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/22978/0
- 5 Jul 2018, Galway County Council 18938: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18938/0
- 22 Dec 2017, Galway County Council 171879: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171879/0

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## 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 Temple.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA072-057: Designed landscape - folly, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA072-057----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA072-058----. 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.

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)

- Saint Enda's National School, school, 1885–1890, Regional interest, registry number 30407210, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA&regno=30407210. 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.

## 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 Temple, about 1 in 20 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 Temple.
- 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/temple.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/temple.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/temple.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Temple 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)

- Ballyglass: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyglass-60336.md
- Clogh: https://everytownland.com/galway/clogh.md
- Gortnalone North: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortnalone-north.md
- Knockaboy: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockaboy.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.

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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.

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