Oldcastle

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldcastle, from 18 m² to 180,226 m² (18.02 ha, 44.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Oldcastle 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.

• 8 Feb 2024N/a

  to construct a silage slab. Gross floor space of proposed works: 651 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2439

• 9 Jul 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new modern garage structure which will consist of the following, small workshop, garage & Fuel storage/Drying Area (area 89 sqm) to the Northwest of existing house approved under Planning Ref 09/2197, and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 89 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20895

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 Oldcastle.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-144 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  In undulating pastureland, c. 100m to the S of the old course of the Dooyertha River and c. 250m to the E of Rathgorgin Castle (GA096-151----). Orpen (1916, 34-44) recorded that this motte and bailey was known locally as ‘Cruckawootha’ or the 'Knock of the Moat' and he suggested that it ‘was erected by Gilbert de Angulo or one of his feoffees [sic] about the close of the 12th century’. It is defined by a steep-sided flat-topped and very heavily overgrown circular mound of earth and stone (diam. 31m; H 4.45m), which is encircled by a wide deep fosse (Wth 3.2m) and an outer bank (base Wth 7.6m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.8m) from NE through S to NW. Orpen (ibid., 39-40) also described a bailey (41m N-S), defined by a scarp, which extended off the motte to the N; it narrowed towards its N end (Wth c. 20m). His plan shows a circular building (GA096-144001-) and a possible enclosure (GA096-114002-) at the NW end of the bailey and he also referred to another enclosure (GA096-144003-) to the E of the motte. No visible surface traces of the latter features survive but the outline of the bailey is indicated by a slight rise in the ground level. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 425; McCaffrey 1952, 163, no. 39) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 December 2019

• GA096-144001 Building
  Description

  Associated with a motte and bailey (GA096-144----). Orpen (1916, 39) recorded that 'In the N.W. angle of the bailey, a ring seems to mark the site of a tower, or small circular building [GA096-14001-], while there are traces of an enclosure [GA096-144002-], 12 ft. by 12 ft. [3.6m by 3.6m] close by.' No visible surface trace of these features survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 December 2019

• GA096-144002 Enclosure
  Description

  Associated with a motte and bailey (GA096-144----). Orpen (1916, 39) recorded that 'In the N.W. angle of the bailey, a ring seems to mark the site of a tower, or small circular building [GA096-14001-], while there are traces of an enclosure [GA096-144002-], 12 ft. by 12 ft. [3.6m by 3.6m] close by.' No visible surface trace of these features survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 December 2019

• GA096-144003 Enclosure
  Description

  Associated with a motte and bailey (GA096-144----). Orpen (1916, 39-40) recorded what seemed to be 'another enclosure … 38 paces' to the E of the fosse of the motte. It was defined by 'a ditch, 12 feet [3.6m] wide, running right across the esker' and 'traces of a rampart and ditch' joined 'this ditch with the mote at the S. side and more faintly at the N'. The latter features were '38 paces' apart. The enclosure is not shown on his plan. On inspection in June 1982 this feature was not noted and it is not visible on aerial imagery. Not precisely located. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 December 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Oldcastle, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Oldcastle · An Seanchaisleán

Area

448,484 m² (44.85 ha, 110.82 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconierin, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kiltullagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

827 people lived in 264 households in the Kiltullagh electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherakilleen, Carrownamorrissy, Curragh More, Rathgorgin, Skeagharegan

Placenames

Oldcastle 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.