Castletown

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 173 m² to 248,309 m² (24.83 ha, 61.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Castletown 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.

• 6 Oct 2020Refused

  to demolish a shed and construct a dwellinghouse, wastewater treatment plant, vehicular access and ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 220 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 60 sqm

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201450

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 Castletown.

Recorded monuments

• GA123-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle rise in undulating farmland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 28.5m) best defined by a low broad rise (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.35m) at N. Traces of external facing stones are evident in the ESE sector, where traces of a possible fosse are also evident. Traces of a possible souterrain (GA123-030001-) are evident in the SW quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 November 2017

• GA123-030001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the SW quadrant of a rath (GA123-030001-). A linear hollow (L 14.6m; Wth 5.5m; D 0.7m), aligned NNW-SSE, may be the remains of a possible souterrain. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 November 2017

• GA123-031 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  On steeply rising ground on the W bank of the Gort River in gently undulating pastureland. This National Monument comprises a much-ruined 13th-century de Burgo castle and bawn (Harbison 1975, 96). Known alternatively as 'Ballinamantaine' castle (Leask 1973, 156), a name still preserved in an adjoining townland, it appears to be named 'Ballecastle' in the 1574 list of castles in Co. Galway when it was then in the possession of 'Mac Remon' (Nolan 1901, 114). The castle consists of an almost square three-storey high building (ext. dims. 11.7m N-S; 11.5m E-W) with a projecting angle at the SE corner. It is constructed of heavily mortared randomly coursed undressed limestone blocks. There is a pronounced base-batter and the base at the SE corner has been reinforced. Access is via a robbed-out doorway on the ground floor, at the N end of the W wall. It accesses a lobby, to the S of which there is a narrow passage (Wth 1.45m) running N-S. An arched entrance at the S end of wall of this passage accesses the main room (10m E-W; 5.25m N-S), the present layout of which dates to the late-medieval period when a wickerwork-centred vault supported by four pillars was inserted. The SE corner of the room is obscured due to the collapse of the roof and it was not possible to determine if its layout mirrored that of the external projecting wall-face. Two sets of straight intramural stairs ascend from the ground to the 1st floor: one from the SW corner and along the S wall, and the other from the NW corner, directly inside the doorway, along the N wall. The upper floors are very ruinous apart from traces of a stairwell, at 2nd-floor level at the W end of the N wall, and a number of robbed windows; otherwise few architectural features survive. An internal dividing wall, running N-S, on the 1st floor is a later insertion. There is a pointed arched doorway at the N end of this wall. The castle stands at SE corner of a large roughly rectangular bawn (GA123-031001-). (Grose 1791, 62; Killanin 1951, 121; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 621; CUCAP BDN 31) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 September 2016 The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 259.

• GA123-031001 Bawn
  Description

  Associated with the Anglo-Norman castle (GA123-031----) at its SE corner, this large roughly rectangular bawn (E-W c. 75m; N-S c. 60m) is defined by a stout wall (max. Wth 2.3m) which has a base-batter. Like the castle, it is constructed of heavily mortared randomly coursed undressed limestone blocks. Though reasonably well-preserved along the S and W sides, it has been heavily robbed and/or largely demolished elsewhere. A large pile of rubble at the SW corner may well mark the site of an angle tower (see Fahey 1906, 4). An ope in the external wall-face, immediately to the NE of the castle, that is surmounted by three sets of corbels may be the remains of a latrine or sallyport. Access to the interior is via a much-ruined gateway in the W wall. This originally comprised an arched entrance (Wth 2.7m) flanked by two massive D-shaped towers (11.8m E-W; 5.7m N-S) that were at least two storeys high. The walls of the towers are 2m wide and each one has a gun loop, set in a deep embrasure, that covered the bawn wall to the N and S. The S wall of the bawn kinks southwards roughly at its mid-point. This is mirrored internally by a drystone wall running from the S tower of the gateway to the NW corner of the castle, suggesting that it may have been built on the line of an earlier wall. The latter wall may have functioned as a defensive wall around the inner ward of the castle. Traces of another internal wall, running roughly NE-SW, are evident in the NW section of the bawn. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 1 September 2016

• GA123-031002 Earthwork
  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

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

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 Castletown, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_766 (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 Castletown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Castletown · Baile an Chaisleáin

Area

1,055,466 m² (105.55 ha, 260.81 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltartan, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kiltartan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

859 people lived in 290 households in the Kiltartan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyloughaun, Ballynamantan, Carrownavohanaun, Coole Demesne, Kiltartan, Rinneen, Rinrush

Placenames

Castletown 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.