Castleboy

84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castleboy, from 285 m² to 129,471 m² (12.95 ha, 31.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 48 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 Castleboy 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.

• 11 Jun 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a new community clubhouse extension adjoining the existing clubhouse, incorporating additional dressing rooms, gym, meeting room, toilets, stores and ancillary circulation spaces. Permission is also sought for the provision of a new seated spectator stand, uprage of the existing septic tank system to a new treatment system and percolation area, provision of additional public walkways, fencing and public lighting. Permission is also sought for the retention of the existing amended public lighting, pitch floodlighting & astro turf playing area and all ancillary services and site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660957

• 3 Sept 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 223.00 sqm (house) & 46.06 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461159

• 2 Jul 2024Conditional

  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: 272 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460817

• 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

• 31 Mar 2023Refused

  for the construction of a new dwelling house (area 298sq.m), domestic garage (area 38sq.m), new sewage treatment system and associated site development works. A Natura Impact Statement is submitted with this application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360321

• 14 Apr 2022N/a

  for (A) the construction of an agricultural shed (412sqm) with associated effluent storage, concrete apron around shed, cattle separating pen and (B) retention permission for existing agricultural sheds (total area 868sqm) and silo within the farm complex and (C) permission to demolish an existing piggery shed (76sqm). The works to include all associated site services.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22494

• 22 Oct 2021N/a

  for an existing silage slab, the works to include associated site services.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 211979

• 17 Sept 2021Refused

  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:300 sqm (house) & 51 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211707

• 23 Jul 2021N/a

  for the construction of an agricultural shed (412sqm) with associated effluent storage, concrete apron around shed, cattle separating pen and retention permission for an existing agricultural shed (112sqm). The works to include all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 412 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 112 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211351

• 29 Jan 2021Conditional

  to install flooding light at existing playing fields.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2182

• 3 Apr 2018N/a

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

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18394

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  for retention and completion of dwellinghouse previously constructed under planning reference no. 09/2101 with alteration to elevations and small side extension previously added. Permission is also sought for construction of new side and rear extensions, revised internal layout of both floors with revisions to existing elevations, construction of new domestic garage, construction of new sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 40.83, gross floor space of works to be retained: 48.63

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17495

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 Castleboy.

Recorded monuments

• GA114-043 Designed landscape - folly
  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.

• GA114-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pastureland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. c. 35m) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is best preserved at SE. There are gaps in the bank at NE (Wth 7m) and SE (Wth 1.4m). Traces of a causeway exist outside the latter, which was probably the original entrance. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 November 2017

• GA114-045 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  On the summit of an E-W running ridge in gently undulating pastureland, formerly part of Castleboy demesne. This castle appears to have been of 13th century date. It was still occupied in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Redmud Mc Hubert roe' (Nolan 1901, 112). When initially visited in October 1982, it consisted of a two-storey ivy-mantled rectangular building (L 12.8m, Wth 5.8m) in fair condition. Aligned E-W, it had been constructed partly on the crest and E slope of the ridge. Apart from a prominent base-batter to the walls, the other principal architectural features were two doorways in the N wall on the ground floor and four long narrow archery slits, three in the S wall and one in the E wall. There was a rectangular projection towards the W end of the S wall which did not appear to be bonded into it. This extended to the full height of the building and had an arched opening at ground level. It probably contained a latrine on the 1st floor. The W wall of the castle appeared to form part of an earlier rectangular or square structure which lay to the W, where substantial fragments of masonry stood. This may possibly have been an earlier keep or, perhaps more likely, a curtain wall. The castle was subsequently demolished in December 1982. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 44) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 August 2018

• GA114-046001 Church
  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.

• GA114-046002 Graveyard
  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

• Castleboy, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch bridge, built c.1820, carrying road over river. Rubble limestone walls, some render remaining. Segmental arch having tooled limestone voussoirs. Rubble limestone parapet walls with some render remaining. Soffit has been gunnelled. Round-plan pier to south-east end of north-east elevation, with cut-stone plinth.

• Castleboy, folly, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding circular-plan five-stage tower, built c.1800. Formerly part of Castleboy country house, now mostly demolished. Snecked squared rubble limestone walls. Pointed arch door opening to north face having tooled surround. Alternating pointed and round-headed window openings to walls, with tooled surrounds and sills. Square-headed openings to north-east face, having relieving arches. Round-headed blind openings, between window openings, to top stage, having tooled sills. Some slit openings also to tower. Tower stands at side of Land Commission road now serving as public road through former demesne.

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 Castleboy, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_901 (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.

• Castleboy, Kilchreest8 sales

Name

Castleboy · An Caisleán Buí

Area

1,847,119 m² (184.71 ha, 456.43 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

Ballybackagh, Ballygunneen, Ballymullen, Caherlinny, Cloghaun, Cregganore, Gortard, Isertkelly South, Lisheeneynaun

Placenames

Castleboy 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.