Castlehacket

116 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlehacket, from 27 m² to 388,950 m² (38.89 ha, 96.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Castlehacket 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.

• 22 Dec 2025Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and garage, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25358

• 16 Oct 2025N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and garage, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25282

• 14 Aug 2025Refused

  for two existing buildings for agricultural use, along with a fuel shed. Permission is also sought for the vehicular entrance which provides access to the buildings

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561116

• 5 Jun 2025N/a

  of existing buildings for agricultural use, along with a fuel shed. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 275.90 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560708

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  sought to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works : 230.00 sqm(H), 60 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560431

• 19 Nov 2024Refused

  of various machinery and fuel sheds as constructed. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 68.50 sqm(farm machinery shed), 155.30 sqm (machinery repair shed), 51.50 sqm (fuel shed)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2461565

• 27 Aug 2024Conditional

  iarratas a dhéanamh ar chead coinneála chun struchtúr sealadach a úsáid fad a bheidh oibreacha riachtanacha ar siúl. RPS 48. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe: 40 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24250

• 13 Jun 2024N/a

  iarrata dhéanamh ar chead coinnela chun struchtúr sealadach a úsáid fad a bheidh oibreacha riachtanacha ar siúl. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe: 40 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 24159

• 17 Apr 2024N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and garage, together with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 266 sqm (H), 60 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24108

• 22 Dec 2022Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and domestic garage, toghether with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 266 sqm (H) & 60 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221259

• 24 Jun 2022Refused

  to retain sheds as constructed. Part of these sheds are being used in conjunction with his tractor repair and servicing business.Gross floor space of work to be retained 377.00sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2260649

• 3 Jun 2022Conditional

  for serviced dwelling, effluent treatment system and garage shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 265 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260581

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. This application is accompanied with an Ecological Impact Assessment Report and a Flood risk Assessment Report. Gross floor space of proposed works: 287 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201991

• 20 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 268 sqm (House), 60 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201759

• 10 Nov 2020Conditional

  to make; alterations and extend existing dwelling house including all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 78.3 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 75.5 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 6.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201678

• 29 Oct 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/ shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 253 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201605

• 12 Mar 2020Refused

  of a shed as constructed, and to use same for the purposes of repairing tractors, and for selling same tractors on premises. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 155.9 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 20317

• 16 Jun 2017Conditional

  of extension and alterations to elevations of existing dwelling house and retain domestic garage and fuel store (Gross floor space of works to be retained: 92.9sqm)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17890

• 4 Apr 2017N/a

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and garage / shed. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 205 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17445

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Turlough O'Gall 000331
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knockmaa Hill 001288

Recorded monuments

• GA042-006 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Named 'Cahergon Fort' on OS Fair Plan, what survives is an oval cashel (E-W 64m, N-S 51m) defined by a poorly preserved drystone wall. Though grassed-over, and partly destroyed at S, double wall-facing is evident intermittently. Rubble from land reclamation has been dumped on top and against it. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and SW. The S half of the interior has been reclaimed but a number of internal divisions are visible in N half. A gap at NNE could be original. 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

• GA042-083 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In grassland near the foot of Knockmaa. A trapezoidal area (E-W 14.7m, N-S 12.3m max.), partially enclosed along W and N sides by a collapsed stone wall. Within the interior are numerous set stones, arranged in N-S running rows, indicating graves oriented E-W. One or two rectangular graves are also visible. 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

• GA042-084 Country house
  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.

• GA042-085 Castle - hall-house
  Description

  In low-lying grassland overlooked by Knockmaa to the S. This castle was in recorded in 1585 when it was in the possession of 'Ullig McReamon Burke' (Nolan 1901, 118) and it remained occupied until 1703 (ibid., 1901b, 30-31). Salter (1993, 28) suggests that it dates to the 13th century and that it originally was a hall-house, which was subsequently modified when the upper two storeys were added in the late 16th century. The following details from an inspection in March 1984 (SMR file) indicate that the castle is rectangular in plan (ext. dims. 14.8m E-W, 11.3m N-S) with a base-batter and is constructed of mortared stone. It is four storeys high with a gabled attic. The SE corner is destroyed. On inspection ivy covered most of the W wall and some of the S wall. Access was gained through a robbed-out doorway in the W wall on the ground floor. This floor was subdivided into two vaulted chambers and the cross-wall carrying the vaults was a later insertion associated with the remodelling; it blocked an original loop at the W end (Salter ibid.). None of the other floors, which were wooden, survived but corbels indicated their positions; those which supported the 2nd floor were ornately carved in a style typical of the late 16th-century Gaelic revival decoration. A staircase in the NW corner of the N chamber connected the first two floors. It was unclear how the upper floors were accessed but it may have been from a staircase that was located in the destroyed SE section. Fireplaces were evident in the N wall on the 1st and 3rd floors and in the W gable on the 2nd and 3rd floors, and the attic. The W gable rose inside the parapet and was crowned with a rectangular chimney stack. The chimney stack on the N wall rose directly from the parapet. Bartizans occured on the NE and SW corners of the tower, and the corbels which supported another one on the NW corner also survived. Drip-stones were visible on the N and S walls at the base of the parapet. Apart from one slit window in the W gable, all the others dated to the remodelling and consisted of rectangular robbed-out mullioned windows, some with traces of hood-mouldings. A projecting latrine was visible on the N wall at 1st-floor level. A diagonal line on the external E wall-face indicated that a two-storey gabled structure had been built against this wall. To accommodate it, most of the base-batter was removed from the wall. No visible surface trace of the building survived or, likewise, of the bawn wall referred to by Nolan (ibid.). On a revisit in June 2021, it was noted that the castle walls are now so densely overgrown with ivy, that apart from the doorway, some window openings and the chimney stacks, few of the features noted above can be seen. A number of trees are growing on top of the ground-floor vaults. (Fahey 1893, 341; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 305-5; Alcock et al. 1999, 401-2) Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 13 July 2021

• GA042-085001 Bawn
  Description

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• GA042-085002 Well
  Description

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• GA042-086 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland near the foot of Knockmaa. A roughly square enclosure (E-W 55m, N-S 53m) defined by a tree-lined denuded bank of earth and stone, except on E side where no visible surface trace survives. Internal divisions are visible in SW quadrant. A field wall abuts the bank at W. 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

• GA042-087 Designed landscape feature
  Description

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• GA042-090 Kiln - lime
  Description

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• GA042-225 Designed landscape - summer house
  Description

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Architectural heritage

• Castle Hacket, country house, 1750–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey country house over basement, built c.1760 and rebuilt 1929 after being burnt in 1923. Eight-bay entrance front faces north onto large courtyard with gateway, has one-bay projections to each side of entrance bay, flat-roofed porch between projections, and two-bay east side elevation, and with slightly lower four-bay two-storey over basement service wing at west side and stables at east. Seven-bay garden front faces south, with pair of full-height canted bows on either side of central two bays, and is continued by slightly lower three-bay two-storey over basement block terminating in further rounded corner bay, to join with four-bay two-storey over basement service wing on west side of courtyard. Hipped roofs, conical to rounded bay, with graduated slates, brick chimneystacks, and with limestone cornice. Garden front has render frieze to parapet, with medallions separated by fluting. Roughcast rendered walls, garden front having brick bows, smooth render below ground floor windows, and limestone sill courses. Raised limestone quoins to corners of main block. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows, main block having nine-over-six pane to ground floor and six-over-six pane to first floor, and lower block having three-over-six pane to first floor, six-over-six to ground floor and three-over-three to basement. Bows and west side of west projection of entrance front have four-over-four pane to first floor and six-over-four to ground floor. Porch has open arch to exterior, supported on columns with Temple of the Winds-style capitals, and approached by flight of steps. West bow of garden front has round-headed doorway with glazed timber door and fanlight and approached by three limestone steps. Garden to south of house bounded by low hedge, with parkland and sheep grazing beyond.

• Castle Hacket, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gateway, erected c.1850, to road entrance of south-east avenue to Castle Hacket. Double-leaf ornate vehicular gates flanked by rectangular-plan ashlar limestone piers with shallow bows to front, moulded plinths and plain cornices with pyramidal caps. Similar cast-iron railings flank gates, without plinths, and terminated by similar piers. Inside gateway, to east side, is square-plan gate lodge with pyramidal slated roof and central chimneystack. Square-headed tripartite window to west gable, with cut limestone surround and set within segmental-headed recess.

• Castle Hacket, stables, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached ten-bay two-storey stable block, built c.1770, in yard to front of Castle Hacket. Hipped slate roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed windows, having four-pane pivoted frames to first floor and similar over blank lower half to ground floor, with limestone sills. Middle of trio of bays at each end have bigger pitching doors with timber battened fixings. Four flat-headed doorways and two segmental carriage arches to ground floor, having limestone block-and-start dressings, doorways also having triple keystones, all with timber battened fixings. Between house and stables are late eighteenth-century wrought-iron piers of neo-classical design. On north side of courtyard is round archway faced in ashlar limestone, similar to entrance arches found in late sixteenth-century bawns. Farmyard has range of single-storey buildings of coursed rubble limestone and further structures of less importance. Farm founded in 1830s as training college for farmers by Kirwan family of Castle Hacket. The entrance gates at the west end of the demsene have massive, banded piers with balls on top , arched pedestrian gates and quadrant walls ornamented with niches. A plaque commemorates the rebuilding of the house in 1929 by General Sir Denis Kirwan Bernard. The architect of the house is unknown.

• Castle Hacket, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ashlar limestone gateway, erected c.1770, to Castle Hacket country house. Comprises vehicular entrance having square-plan piers with moulded plinths and cornices and topped with blocks having balls, with rebates for double-leaf cast-iron gates, in turn flanked by round-headed pedestrian entrances having block-and-start surrounds with projecting copings, one entrance having timber battened door. Rendered limestone quadrant walls flanking entrance, having limestone copings and with round-headed niche to each side having limestone block-and-start surrounds and sills. Plaque to east pier reads 'This house was destroyed by fire in January 1923 and rebuilt by Lt General Sir Denis Kirwan [...] 1929'.

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 Castlehacket, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castlehacket · Caisleán an Haicéadaigh

Area

3,644,222 m² (364.42 ha, 900.51 acres)

Civil parish

Killower, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

925 people lived in 302 households in the Killower electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrumkilla, Ballintleva, Caherakeeny, Caltragh, Carrowbeg North, Carrowbeg South, Gortnasculloge, Tobermina

Placenames

Castlehacket 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.