Castlepark

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlepark, from 1,658 m² to 132,309 m² (13.23 ha, 32.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Castlepark 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.

• 30 Jun 2021Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system, and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works is 212 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211170

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 Castlepark.

Recorded monuments

• GA114-054 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In flat open pastureland. In 1574 this tower house was in the possession of 'McHubert cheif [sic] of his sept' (Nolan 1901, 112), i.e. the Burkes (see Fahey 1893, 162, 247); it was rebuilt by MacRedmond Burke about 1670 (Harbison 1975, 93). It consists of a well-preserved three-storey high rectangular tower (13.7m N-S; c. 11m E-W) which occupies the S corner of a rectangular bawn (GA114-054001-). It is now a National Monument. The original doorway, with a perfectly intact hanging eye on the S side, is centrally placed in the E wall and is of two orders with a gap in the roof between them for a portcullis. It accesses a small lobby with an overhead murder-hole and off which a doorway leads to the main ground-floor chamber. This chamber was lit by four cross-loops, two in the W wall and one in the N and S walls. All are set in deeply splayed embrasures and wicker-centring survives in the S and W examples with possible plank-centring in the N loop. An unusual feature on this floor is the double arch in the N wall; its central pier does not reach floor level. Another doorway to the N of the lobby leads to an intramural stairs which rises to the first floor, at which point it spirals and then continues, again in the E wall, as another intramural stairs to the second floor. The first floor was wooden: six recesses in the E and W walls indicate the position of the corbels that supported it. This floor comprised a main chamber which was accessed off a small landing via a round-headed doorway. It was lit by two rectangular two-light windows in the S wall and one in the W wall. A similar window was subsequently inserted into a now partially blocked-up single-light window in the inaccessible murder-hole chamber in the E wall. These windows may possibly be related to the early 17th-century refurbishment of the tower. A fireplace is visible in the S end of the E wall. There is a stone vault with wicker-centring and traces of plaster between this floor and the second floor. A subsidiary chamber to the N of the main chamber is accessed off the landing via a pointed arch doorway. It is also vaulted and its wicker-centring also survives. Plaster is also visible. This chamber was lit by shouldered arch windows in the W and N walls. The second floor comprises one main chamber, floored with concrete, and a very small intramural chamber in the E wall. The latter is accessed through a very narrow doorway (Wth 0.5m). This floor bears fine panels of arcading along the N and S walls. It was lit by tall two- and three-light windows in the E, S and N walls and a smaller rectangular window in the S wall. Another window in the N end of the W wall was subsequently blocked up when a later fireplace was inserted. Its lintel bears a Latin inscription and the letters W.H. and it is dated 1604 (Fahey 1906, 3-4). The remains of another fireplace are visible at the W end of the S wall. There is a brick-lined oven off it in the W wall. A round-headed wall niche is visible to the N of the oven. Access to the roof was gained via an intramural stairs in the W wall. However, due to a breach in the stairs it is no longer accessible. The gables, three chimney stacks and parapets appear to be intact, the latter complete with small turrets at each corner. The wall-walks themselves were interrupted by two of the inserted chimneys (SMR file). A machicolation at parapet level on the E wall commands the doorway below. An enclosure (GA114-054002-) may be associated. (Holt 1910, 138; Killanin 1951, 120; CUCAP 1970, BDN 50) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 May 2019 This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 272. The following images have been appended: GA114-054----_01 E face.jpg GA114-054----_02 Doorway E wall.jpg GA114-054----_03 Portcullis groove.jpg GA114-054----_04 Hanging eye.jpg GA114-054----_05 West wall ground-floor cross-loop.jpg GA114-054----_06 Window W wall - subsidiary chamber 1st floor.jpg GA114-054----_07 Fireplace W wall 2nd floor GA114-054----_08 Fireplace detail.jpg GA114-054----_09 Oven SW corner 2nd floor.jpg GA114-054----_10 Niche W wall 2nd floor.jpg GA114-054----_11 Arcading S wall 2nd floor.jpg

• GA114-054001 Bawn
  Description

  This rectangular bawn (c. 62m NNW-SSE; c. 54m ENE-WSW) is associated with ‘Isert Kelly Castle’ (GA114-054----) which occupies it S corner. It is defined by a grassed-over tumbled stone wall (Wth 0.68m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.53m), which is visible all round. Traces of inner and outer wall-facing survive intermittently. Stone-lined entrance gaps are evident in the S (Wth 1.56m) and W (Wth 2.57m) walls. A rectangular building (L 18.3m; Wth 8.4m), also defined by grassed-over tumbled stone walls, in the SE corner may be the remains of an associated banqueting hall. A small section of the masonry of its N wall has collapsed intact into its interior. A NE-SW flowing stream to the E of the bawn appears to have been channelled around it to form a moat-like feature along its E and S sides. Boulders visible along both banks suggest it was stone-faced. No clear trace of the ‘moat’ is evident along the W and N sides but a change in vegetation colour suggests it line. An enclosure (GA114-054002-) extending off the N side may be associated. Since 2014 the bawn has the subject of on-going research excavations being carried out by Dr Rory Sherlock, Galway Archaeological Field School (see https://excavations.ie/report/2017/Galway/0026239/ last accessed 11 June 2018). The following images have been appended: GA114-054001-_01 N bawn wall from E.jpg GA114-054001-_02 N end of E bawn wall, from S.jpg GA114-054001-_03 S bawn wall, from E.jpg GA114-054001-_04 W bawn wall, from W.jpg GA114-054001-_05 External wall-facing, W bawn wall.jpg GA114-054001-_06 Gap in S wall, from S.jpg GA114-054001-_07 Detail of wall-facing on E side of S gap.jpg GA114-054001-_08 Gap in W wall, from W.jpg GA114-054001-_09 Banqueting hall from SW.jpg GA114-054001-_10 E wall of banqueting hall.jpg GA114-054001-_11 Possible 'moat' feature on S side, from E.jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 June 2019

• GA114-054002 Enclosure
  Description

  In flat open pastureland. Aerial reconnaissance in July 1970 (CUCAP BDN 50; see https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com/location/bdn050/ last accessed 11/06/2019) brought to light this large rectangular enclosure (c. 85m NE-SW; 75m NW-SE), which extends off the N side of the bawn (GA114-054001-) associated with ‘Isert Kelly Castle’ (GA114-054----). The enclosure is defined by a barely perceptible inner bank (base Wth 7.24; int. H 0.44m; ext. H 0.16m), fosse (Wth 4.23m) and outer bank (base Wth 5.29m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.12m). The outer bank is only clearly visible along the N side. A curving bank visible in the NW corner of the interior may mark an internal division. The bank along the W side continues further NW for a distance of c. 267m while that on the E side extends c. 135m to the NE. These banks may be part of an associated field. A possible cross bank visible on the aerial photograph suggests that this field was further subdivided. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 June 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Castlepark, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castlepark · Páirc an Chaisleáin

Area

206,258 m² (20.63 ha, 50.97 acres)

Civil parish

Isertkelly, 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

Furzypark, Isertkelly North, Isertkelly South, Meheranspark

Placenames

Castlepark 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.