Castlegar West

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlegar West, from 253 m² to 156,218 m² (15.62 ha, 38.6 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 Castlegar West 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 Castlegar West 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 Castlegar West.

Recorded monuments

• GA061-050 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 30.5m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The enclosing elements have been quarried out at NE, E and from S to SW. 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

• GA061-051 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a ridge in grassland. Circular rath (D 40m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. The interior is planted with trees. 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

• GA061-052 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In deciduous woodland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (NE-SW 32.5m, NW-SE 28.5m) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter survives from ESE through S to WNW. A gap (Wth 5.5m) at SSW could be original. The interior is planted with trees. 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

• GA061-053 Enclosure
  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.

• GA074-020 Enclosure
  Description

  In farmland within the former Castlegar Demesne. Poorly preserved circular enclosure (D 37m) defined by an earthen bank from S through W to N; elsewhere a band of vegetation indicates the line of the monument. 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

• GA074-021 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In deciduous woodland. Poorly preserved oval rath (E-W c. 50m, N-S c. 40m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Due to quarrying the inner bank and fosse do not survive at NW, and from NE through E to SE. The outer bank survives from NW through N to NE; no visible surface trace survives elsewhere. An enclosure (GA074-022----) lies c.50mtoW. 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

• GA074-022 Enclosure
  Description

  Circa 50m W of a ringfort (GA074-021----). Very poorly preserved roughly oval enclosure (N-S c. 50m, E-W c. 40m) defined by a bank much obscured by thick overgrowth. A shallow depression at NW may indicated the line of an external fosse. 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

• Castlegar, gates/railings/walls, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Estae entrance gateway to Castlegar, erected c.1810. Comprising decorative double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gates flanked by square-plan cut channelled limestone piers with plinths, fluted collars, moulded cornices and caps and flanked by cast-iron pedestrian gate to one side with matching outer pier. Curved rendered walls to road with limestone plinth and coping and terminated by more simply detailed coursed limestone piers with caps. Wrought-iron railings bound grass margin to each side of front of gateway. Gateway set opposite gate lodge.

• Castlegar, gate lodge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1810, now private dwelling. Pedimented breakfront to north elevation flanked by recessed end bays, and having pitched rendered single-storey late twentieth-century extension to rear and lean-to extension to west end of façade. Ashlar limestone façade to north with block-and-start quoins, and plinth. Remaining elevations rendered. Pitched natural slate roof, with rendered chimneystack to west elevation, having stone parapets to side bays, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Round-headed recess to breakfront with tripartite window set in carved stone surround, flanked by round-headed windows to side bays, all with tooled limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed eight panelled timber door to east elevation. Building set back from road, opposite Castlegar Estate gateway, in mature gardens with pair of square, cut limestone gate piers, decorative metal gates and timber railings.

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 Castlegar West, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1240 (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 Castlegar West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Castlegar West · An Caisleán Gearr Thiar

Area

1,318,526 m² (131.85 ha, 325.81 acres)

Civil parish

Ahascragh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Ahascragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

619 people lived in 220 households in the Ahascragh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahascragh East, Castlegar East, Eglish, Ervallagh Eighter, Ervallagh Oughter, Killuppaun (Clonbrock), Killuppaun (Mahon), Weston

Placenames

Castlegar West 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.