Cloghballymore

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghballymore, from 2,548 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres) to 303,413 m² (30.34 ha, 74.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Cloghballymore 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.

• 3 Feb 2022Conditional

  for the proposed development will involve words to a protected structure - Ref: 298 and will consist of (a) an extension to the existing day room to the rear of the building, (b) minor internal alterations to layout approved under planning ref; 05/2640, together with all associated site works & services.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260063

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Fingall Complex SAC 000606
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fingall Complex 000606

Recorded monuments

• GA103-108 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In recently cleared woodland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 192, no. 104a) as an oval ‘Stone fort’ (c. 38.4m by 32.9m) defined by a double-faced drystone wall. When inspected in May 1992 a large mound of earth and stone, and forestry clearance (c. 70m by 50m) occupied the site and no visible surface trace of the monument survived. OSi aerial photographs (last accessed 27 November 2017) indicate that agricultural sheds have since been built on the site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 November 2017

• GA103-109 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a SE-facing rise overlooking Cloghballymore Lough which is a turlough. This rectangular six-storey high tower house (L c. 9m; Wth 7.05m) now stands at the SE end of Cloghballymore House (GA103-109001-), an 18th-19th-century mansion, where it is wedged between the house proper and outbuildings, partially obscuring both its NW and SE walls. It was in existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Shane McBrene McGilkely' (Nolan 1901, 113). It is constructed of coursed limestone blocks with dressed quoinstones. The original round-arched doorway, centrally placed in the NE wall, gives access to a lobby from which further doorways lead to the spiral stairs in the E corner, the guardroom in the N corner and the main ground-floor room to the SW. An unusual feature is a very small room on the right-hand side as you approach the spiral stairs. A low pointed doorway access it. There is a stone vault between 1st/2nd floors and all the floors above this still retain wooden floors albeit some in poor condition. A fireplace with jogged voussoirs in the SW wall on the 6th floor is probably a 17th-century insertion. A garderobe exit chute is visible at the base of the SW wall. The roof and parapets appear to date from the early 19th century (Blake 1918-19, 133, 138) but the corbels of four machicouli, centrally placed along each wall at parapet level, still survive. The windows consist mainly of flat, round and ogee-headed single lights and angle loop. However, there are two tiny cross-shaped opes at the 2nd and 4th-floor levels and two fine twin-lighted transomed windows on the 6th floor, that on the wall is ogee headed while that on the wall is square headed. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 368-9; Fahey 1893, 252) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 September 2021

• GA103-110 Well
  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.

• GA103-111 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

• Cloghballymore House, country house, 1450–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached country house, comprising three-bay two-storey over basement house of c.1750, having four-bay two-storey over half-basement addition to north-east end and five-bay addition to south-east end, with recessed slightly lower four-bay two-storey block having advanced north-east bay, linking main house to pre-existing three-storey towerhouse of c.1500. Now in use as nursing home. Recent two-storey extensions to rear (south-west). Slate roofs, hipped to main buidling and pitched to link block and towerhouse, having clay ridge tiles, paired rendered chimneystacks flanking house doorway, with cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course and sill course to first floor of later house. Square-headed window openings to later house, having painted stone sills and nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, and having replacement uPVC windows to rear elevation. Square-headed door opening set into carved limestone doorcase comprising panelled pilasters, moulded lintel, fanlight, with triangular pediment over whole supported on scroll consoles, with replacement glazed timber door. Towerhouse has slightly overhanging rubble stone parapet with cut-stone course to base, rubble limestone walls, square-headed and pointed-headed slit window openings, two-light mullioned and transomed ogee-headed windows to top floor with machicolations over. Property set within its own grounds on an elevated site. Site entrance comprising circular-profile cut and carved limestone piers forming vehicular entrance, flanked by wrought-iron pedestrian gates, in turn flanked by square-profile cut and carved limestone piers, with rubble stone quadrant walls.

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 Cloghballymore, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cloghballymore · Cloch an Bhaile Mhóir

Area

913,613 m² (91.36 ha, 225.76 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenavarra, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killeenavarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

903 people lived in 282 households in the Killeenavarra electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore, Cregballymore, Creglucas, Gortaroe, Pollagh, Tooreen East, Tooreen West

Placenames

Cloghballymore 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.