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

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

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 674,992 m² (67.5 ha, 166.79 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,560 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Monivea, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/monivea.md
- Barony: Tiaquin
- Electoral division: Graigabbey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19845
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63992
- Centre: latitude 53.340191, longitude -8.689965 (WGS 84)

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

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Templemoyle, from 10 m² to 109,213 m² (10.92 ha, 26.99 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 6209564: 109,213 m² (10.92 ha, 26.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6209564.md
- Parcel 1988885: 101,868 m² (10.19 ha, 25.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988885.md
- Parcel 5930072: 93,510 m² (9.35 ha, 23.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5930072.md
- Parcel 1961846: 92,553 m² (9.26 ha, 22.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961846.md
- Parcel 1988886: 51,626 m² (5.16 ha, 12.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988886.md
- Parcel 4937151: 44,287 m² (4.43 ha, 10.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4937151.md
- Parcel 5157468: 42,981 m² (4.3 ha, 10.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5157468.md
- Parcel 1961848: 37,895 m² (3.79 ha, 9.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961848.md
- Parcel 1961853: 12,878 m² (1.29 ha, 3.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961853.md
- Parcel 1961849: 11,380 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961849.md
- Parcel 1961845: 10,185 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961845.md
- Parcel 4460117: 9,338 m² (0.93 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4460117.md
- Parcel 1988887: 5,100 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988887.md
- Parcel 1988791: 4,228 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988791.md
- Parcel 4653530: 2,640 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4653530.md
- Parcel 1961847: 2,639 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961847.md
- Parcel 1988798: 2,591 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988798.md
- Parcel 1988889: 2,572 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988889.md
- Parcel 5930091: 2,563 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5930091.md
- Parcel 1988890: 2,558 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988890.md
- Parcel 1961852: 2,525 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961852.md
- Parcel 1988888: 2,500 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988888.md
- Parcel 1961850: 2,416 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961850.md
- Parcel 1961856: 2,365 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961856.md
- Parcel 1988792: 2,193 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988792.md
- Parcel 1988793: 2,188 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988793.md
- Parcel 1995655: 2,133 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995655.md
- Parcel 4460118: 2,114 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4460118.md
- Parcel 2373945: 2,073 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373945.md
- Parcel 1988794: 1,505 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988794.md
- Parcel 1988796: 1,214 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988796.md
- Parcel 1961855: 1,134 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961855.md
- Parcel 1988797: 1,035 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988797.md
- Parcel 1988795: 877 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1988795.md
- Parcel 1961854: 641 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961854.md
- Parcel 5346254: 305 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5346254.md
- Parcel 1961851: 163 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961851.md
- Parcel 4900977: 10 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4900977.md

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

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.

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

8 applications, newest first.

- 25 Feb 2026, Galway County Council 2660301: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house with treatment plant and percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660301/0
- 22 Sept 2025, Galway County Council 2561367: Conditional. Permission. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561367/0
- 4 Aug 2023, Galway County Council 2360915: Conditional. Permission. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360915/0
- 3 May 2022, Galway County Council 22573: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/22573/0
- 5 Nov 2020, Galway County Council 201641: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201641/0
- 8 May 2018, Galway County Council 18586: Conditional. Permission. for a temporary classroom of 80 sqm. and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 80 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18586/0
- 1 Sept 2017, Galway County Council 171313: Conditional. Permission. to retain after school facility & permission for pre school facility. Gross floor space of work to be retained 91.19sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171313/0
- 3 Mar 2017, Galway County Council 17292: Conditional. Permission. consisting of construction of forest road entrance.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17292/0

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 Templemoyle.

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

- GA071-080: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA071-080----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA071-082----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA084-127001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA084-127002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA084-127003-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA084-127004-. 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

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 Templemoyle.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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, 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/templemoyle-63992.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/templemoyle-63992.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/templemoyle-63992.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Templemoyle 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)

- Bingarra: https://everytownland.com/galway/bingarra.md
- Corrantarramud: https://everytownland.com/galway/corrantarramud.md
- Newcastle: https://everytownland.com/galway/newcastle-63430.md
- Shoodaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/shoodaun.md
- Tisaxon: https://everytownland.com/galway/tisaxon.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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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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