Eskerballycahill

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eskerballycahill, from 838 m² to 117,531 m² (11.75 ha, 29.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Eskerballycahill 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Eskerballycahill in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Eskerballycahill.

Recorded monuments

• GA060-039 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 24m, N-S 22m) defined by a scarp overlain by a field bank at W. 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

• GA060-071 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D c. 30m) defined by a scarp and external fosse; the latter is visible at NNE and survives elsewhere as a vegetation band. A field bank cuts the monument at N and S. 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

• GA060-072 Enclosure
  Description

  On a low ridge. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a small circular enclosure (D c. 25m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA060-073 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In undulating grassland.-Poorly preserved circular rath (D 22m) defined from SE through S to NW by a scarp; elsewhere a field bank overlies the enclosing element. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at NW. 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

• GA060-074 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a rise in grassland. Poorly preserved oval rath (N-S 36m, E-W 28m) defined by a bank at S, and elsewhere by a scarp. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at NW. 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

• GA060-075 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a ridge in grassland. Poorly preserved oval rath (N-S 35.5m, E-W 28.5m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank survive at NE and SE. Within the interior is a souterrain (GA060-075001-). 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

• GA060-075001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the interior of a ringfort (GA060-075----). An L-shaped souterrain indicated by a chamber and hollow. The chamber (L 8.3m, Wth c. 2m), running N-S, lies directly beneath a modern field bank which cuts through the ringfort. Although inaccessible, the interior may be glimpsed through gaps in the roof lintels. The shorter arm (L 7.6m, Wth c. 2m) extends off SE end and runs E-W. It is defined by a rubble and nettle-filled hollow 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

• GA060-076 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be an overgrown roughly square hollow, probably a disused sand or gravel pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 July 2014

• GA060-077 Quarry
  Description

  A small hachured feature named ‘Gravel Pit (Disused)’ on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) proved on inspection in 1983 to consist of a small overgrown hollow. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 March 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Eskerballycahill, about 1 in 5 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 Eskerballycahill.

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

Name

Eskerballycahill · Eiscir Bhaile Uí Chathail

Area

1,458,659 m² (145.87 ha, 360.44 acres)

Civil parish

Killosolan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Clonbrock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

606 people lived in 209 households in the Clonbrock electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bredagh, Caltra, Cartron, Glebe, Lattoon, Lislea, Lurgan, Ticooly (O'Kelly)

Placenames

Eskerballycahill 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.