Castlequarter

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlequarter, from 1,627 m² to 433,234 m² (43.32 ha, 107.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Castlequarter 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.

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  for construction of a slatted shed, underground slurry storage tank, creating a new farm entrance and all associated site development works (Gross floor space 509sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171850

• 23 Feb 2017Refused

  for construction of a slatted shed, underground slurry storage tank, creating a new farm entrance and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 509sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17251

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: Coole-Garryland Complex SAC 000252
• Special Protection Area: Coole-Garryland SPA 004107
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coole-Garryland Complex 000252

Recorded monuments

• GA122-042 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In dense scrubland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 22 July 2019

• GA122-043 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In rolling farmland, liable to flooding. In existence in 1574 when it was occupied by Derby O'Shaghnes (Nolan 1901, 114). This fairly well-preserved three-storey high tower house is circular in plan (D c. 13.5m). A gentle base-batter is evident and the walls are rendered. Access is gained through a double doorway facing ENE. The outer doorway is framed with a round-headed arch, while the inner one is pointed. Vertical grooves on either side of the latter indicate that it was formerly protected by a portcullis. This doorway opens into a small lobby off which there are three further doorways. That to the N leads to the guardroom, which is lit by an arrow-loop on the E side; there is a fireplace at its N end. The doorway to the S leads to a rubble-strewn intramural stairway and the spiral staircase. That to the W opens into the main room, which is subrectangular in plan. It is lit by splayed arrow-loops set in deep embrasures at SSE, WSW and NNW. Corbels indicate that the 1st floor was wooden, while there is a vault between the 1st and 2nd floors. One room occupies the 1st floor from where the portcullis would have been raised and lowered. Off the main room on the 2nd floor an opening to the S probably accessed a garderobe; a blocked-up exit chute is visible externally. There is also a small room off it to the NE that would have accessed the machicolation over the doorway. All that survives of it are the corbels that supported it. Windows in the main rooms on the upper floors consist of ogee-headed single lights with recessed spandrels; one on the 2nd floor bears a hood-moulding which bends outwards and tapers on each side, finishing with a carved interlace ornament in relief. Arrow-loops light the spiral stairs. A short stretch of the bawn wall (GA122-043001-) extends off it to the E. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 September 2021

• GA122-043001 Bawn
  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.

• GA122-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a W-facing slope in low-lying grassland. Circular rath (diam. c. 31m), in fair condition, defined by two stone-faced banks and an intervening fosse. Overgrowth obscures the outer bank from S to W and no visible surface trace of it survives from W to N. A gap (Wth 1.7m) at E could be original. Field walls surround the monument from W through N to NE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 November 2017

• GA122-045 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an irregular enclosure (c. 23m NW-SE; c. 22m NE-SW) that appears to have been cut into from E to S by a quarry. When inspected in September 1982 it was in farmland but aerial imagery (Google 2019) indicates that the area was subsequently developed and is now a golf course. On inspection the area was obscured by field-clearance rubble and collapsed field boundaries and no clear visible surface trace of the monument survived. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 22 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Castlequarter, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_727 (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 Castlequarter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Castlequarter · Ceathrú an Chaisleáin

Area

1,389,042 m² (138.9 ha, 343.24 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

789 people lived in 274 households in the Beagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonteen, Coole Demesne, Knockaunatouk, Newtown, Newtown (Glynn), Newtown (Regan), Tawnagh East, Tawnagh West

Placenames

Castlequarter 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.