Templemoyle

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Templemoyle, from 10 m² to 109,213 m² (10.92 ha, 26.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Templemoyle 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.

• 25 Feb 2026Refused

  to construct a dwelling house with treatment plant and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660301

• 22 Sept 2025Conditional

  for change of use from after school and pre school facility to full day care facility with operating times 7am-6pm (previous planning reference 23/60915)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561367

• 4 Aug 2023Conditional

  for change of use from after school & pre school facility to full day care facility with operating times 07.00am - 06.00pm (previous planning reference 17/1313)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360915

• 3 May 2022Conditional

  for (a) permanent classroom extension of 95sqm (b) temporary prefab classroom of 80sqm with associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 175 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22573

• 5 Nov 2020N/a

  to install walkway lighting to walkway proposed under planning permission granted (16/1681) permission for changing rooms and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works; 59sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201641

• 8 May 2018Conditional

  for a temporary classroom of 80 sqm. and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 80 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18586

• 1 Sept 2017Conditional

  to retain after school facility & permission for pre school facility. Gross floor space of work to be retained 91.19sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171313

• 3 Mar 2017Conditional

  consisting of construction of forest road entrance.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17292

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 Templemoyle.

Recorded monuments

• GA071-080 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a slight rise in pastureland, to SW of Newcastle village. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Conogher OKelly' (Nolan 1901b, 122). No visible surface trace survives; the immediate area has been greatly disturbed by quarrying which probably resulted in the destruction of the castle. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 256) 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

• GA071-082 Burial ground
  Description

  On a low glacial rise, c. 100m NE of 'Templemoyle Church' (GA084-127002-) and c. 240m SE of 'Templebally' (GA071-082003-). During the extraction of sand and gravel from a sandpit, burials have been recurrently found at various intervals since 1952. They have been variously reported as being only c. 0.4-0.6m below ground surface and aligned E-W (Topgr. Files, NMI) In 1979, a graveslab (GA051-082005-) bearing the inscription 'OROIT AR MAELPOIL' and a large bronze-coated iron hand-bell of 7th-9th-C date were discovered at the site, indicating that the burial ground was probably associated with the adjoining churches (pers. comm. Prof. Rynne). 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). Revised by: Paul Walsh Date of revision: 1 December 2011

• GA084-127001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On the summit of a low rise overlooking a large bog to SW. It consists of a subcircular enclosure, possibly multivallate, surrounding church (GA084-127002-). The line of the outer enclosure (WNW-ESE 280m) is indicated on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) by field and td. boundaries curving from SE through S to WNW. Aerial reconnaissance in July 1971 (CUCAP BGI 35) shows a possible earthen bank along the line of this enclosure from SW to W. The aerial photograph also revealed the presence of a middle enclosure (ENE-WSW c. 150m), represented by an earthen scarp curving from E through S to SW. A number of subdivisions and a series of cultivation ridges are visible internally, particularly in the area immediately S of the modern graveyard. The latter has a notably curved SE boundary wall, possibly representing the line of a third inner enclosure immediately around the church. The church itself appears to be roughly centrally placed within both it and the middle enclosure. A holy well (GA087-127004-) lies 80m to SSW of the church, in S part of the outer enclosure, and a burial ground (GA071-082----) c. 100m to NE, just outside it. Another church (GA071-082003-) stands 265m to N. This monument also extends on to OS sheet 71 (GA071-082004-). 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). See also: J. Mannion, Tech Saxon. 'An Anglo-Saxon monastic settlement in early medieval east Galway.' Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 60(2008), 9-21. Date of upload/revision: 01 July 2014

• GA084-127002 Church
  Description

  Within an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA084-127001-). All that survives is a section of S wall (L 11.25m) of an apparently rectangular church, aligned E-W. The only architectural features are two single-light round-headed windows, probably of 13th-C date (pers. comm. Prof. Rynne). At the time of OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 257-9), a substantial section of N wall (L 13.25m) and E gable were also intact, the latter containing 'two lancet windows of cut stone', described as being 'of the same kind' as the surving windows. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 275; Nicholls 1973, 36) 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

• GA084-127003 Graveyard
  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.

• GA084-127004 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Some 80m SSW of a church (GA084-127002-), in S sector of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA084-127001-). It consists of a roughly circular water-filled hollow (D c.2m) delimited by traces of a collapsed drystone wall. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 258-9) 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Templemoyle · An Teampall Maol

Area

674,992 m² (67.5 ha, 166.79 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Graigabbey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Graigabbey electoral division: 421 people in 135 households; 90% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bingarra, Corrantarramud, Newcastle, Shoodaun, Tisaxon

Placenames

Templemoyle 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.