Castletaylor North

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletaylor North, from 15 m² to 216,655 m² (21.67 ha, 53.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Castletaylor North 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.

• 20 Oct 2025Conditional

  for demolition of existing dwelling rear single storey block & existing attached garage, minor alterations & renovation to existing dwelling floor plan to reconfigure layout plus alterations to all existing elevations to suit, full planning permission for single storey extensions to all dwelling elevations, full planning permission for stand-alone domestic garage on revised site boundaries with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561535

• 6 Jun 2024Conditional

  of: (1) the elevation alterations to dwelling house and conversion of the attic to storage and (2) domestic garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 25.43 sqm (garage) & 41.39 sqm (attic)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460684

• 20 Oct 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a new two storey dwellinghouse & garage with onsite treatment unit & percolation area along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 261.20sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261059

• 16 Dec 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of (a) single storey dwelling house measuring 238 sqm, (b) single storey domestic garage measuring 60 sqm (c) boundary wall to public road, (d) wastewater treatment and all associated site services and works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 298 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191942

• 23 Mar 2017Conditional

  for construction of dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and all associated services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: d/h 212 sqm., garage 60 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17381

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: Castletaylor Complex SAC 000242
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castletaylor Complex 000242

Recorded monuments

• GA104-101 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in pastureland. Very poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 23.7m) defined by a drystone wall, which is obscured by field-clearance rubble, from N through E to SW. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. Another cashel (GA104-103----) lies 150m to the SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 November 2017

• GA104-102 Designed landscape feature
  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.

• GA104-103 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rolling pastureland. This circular cashel (diam. 32.7m), in fair condition, is defined by a drystone wall on top of which field-clearance rubble has been piled. A stile has been built into the wall at SW, possibly to give access to a children's burial ground (GA104-103001-) in the interior. Another cashel (GA104-101----) lies c. 150m to the NW. (McCaffrey 1952, 224, no. 128) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 November 2017

• GA104-103001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within the S sector of a cashel (GA104-103----). This children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed irregular area in which set stones and flat grave-markers are haphazardly arranged. (McCaffrey 1952, 224, no. 128; O'Doherty 1985, 6) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 November 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

• Castletaylor North, Ardrahan5 sales

Name

Castletaylor North · Caisleán an Táilliúraigh Thuaidh

Area

1,008,044 m² (100.8 ha, 249.09 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Castletaylor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletaylor electoral division: 693 people in 215 households; 82% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherweelder, Caranavoodaun, Castletaylor South, Cregmore, Fawnarevagh, Gortroe, Liskevin, Sroove, Toberacreggaun

Placenames

Castletaylor North 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.