Cloghaun

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghaun, from 121 m² to 2,888,418 m² (288.84 ha, 713.74 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 Cloghaun 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.

• 16 Nov 2023Refused

  for the construction of a new dwelling house (area 310sq.m), domestic garage (area 38sq.m), new sewage treatment system and associated site development works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with this application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361368

• 10 Nov 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 211.5 sqm (house) & 22.5 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212089

• 18 Feb 2020Conditional

  to widen existing entrance for Forestry Road

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20203

• 3 Apr 2018N/a

  for the widening of field entrance gate for forest access road with internal turning area

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18394

• 26 Mar 2018Conditional

  for construction of Back in Type Timber loading bay and entrance.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18366

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: Sonnagh Bog SAC 001913
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sonnagh Bog 001913

Recorded monuments

• GA114-056 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On level ground close to the NE foot of the Slieve Aughty Mountains. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Mac Hubert' (Nolan 1901, 112). This tower house is an example of one of Galway’s two-phase tower houses, whereby the block built in the 1st phase of construction contained the main entrance doorway, which accessed a small lobby off which further doorways generally led to a guardroom and spiral stairs on either side of the doorway and the main-ground floor chamber opposite it. The overhead floors would have contained a single chamber accessed off the spiral stairs. A larger block containing the main rooms would have been added during the 2nd phase of construction. Only the 1st-phase construction block survives in this case and it is unclear if the 2nd-phase block was ever constructed. The tower was described in a survey in 1944 as being in a ‘ruinous state of preservation … about 40’ [c. 12m] high x 30’ [c. 9.1m] x 15’ [c. 4.5m]’ (Topgr. Files, NMI). The doorway, in the NW wall, was defaced and there were a number of breaches in the walls. The stairs were fairly well preserved but otherwise the interior was in ruins. Surviving windows comprised four square-headed and one round-headed lancets, four loops and two-ogee headed lights. A base-batter was evident on the SW, NW and NE walls but the SE wall was perpendicular (ibid.), indicating that following the second phase of construction it would become an internal wall. In the mid-1970s the tower block underwent repair and reconstruction, initially as a family home. The restoration work included the insertion of a number of new windows and the complete reconstruction of the roof and parapets. A marked change in the masonry above the third floor suggests that all the walls above this level have also been reconstructed. A modern bawn wall (GA114-056001-) surrounds the tower, complete with an arched gateway opposite doorway and circular turret at the NW corner. Further work in the 1990s developed the tower into a wedding venue complete with banqueting room. There is an interesting (but undated) black and white photograph of it on its web site that shows it prior to any of the reconstruction work (see www.cloghauncastle.ie last accessed 17 September 2021). The image portrays the E wall – the breach on the ground floor, opposite the entrance doorway in the W wall, and those on the first and second floors would have accommodated the doorways that connected the two blocks. A number of protruding stones on the NE and SE corners would have knitted into the 2nd block. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 44; Fahey 1893, 246) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 September 2021

• GA114-056001 Bawn
  Description

  Associated with a tower house (GA114-056----). This modern or mainly modern rectangular bawn wall (20m N-S; 18.6m; H c. 2.5m), complete with an arched gateway in the NW wall and a low circular turret at the NW corner, surrounds the tower house. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 September 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloghaun, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_924 (ZIP).

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

Name

Cloghaun · An Clochán

Area

3,957,528 m² (395.75 ha, 977.93 acres)

Civil parish

Killinan, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Castleboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

571 people lived in 204 households in the Castleboy electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygunneen, Ballymullen, Boleyneendorrish, Castleboy, Cregganore, Derryvokeel, Gortnagleav, Kilbeg, Lisheeneynaun, Scalp

Placenames

Cloghaun 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.