Culleen

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Culleen, from 61 m² to 159,699 m² (15.97 ha, 39.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Culleen 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 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 231 sqm (dwelling house) and 60sqm (domestic garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361542

• 7 Jul 2022Conditional

  to (a) retain and complete dwelling (minor internal alterations) previously permitted under 03/416 (Outline Planning Permission) 06/490 and 10/1747, treatment plant and all associated services (b) Erect a garage to rear. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 193.36sqm. Gross floor space of proposed works: 22.265sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22857

• 17 Jan 2022Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to an existing agricultural shed to include 2.no slatted tanks and cubicles and permission for the construction of silage slab and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 603 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2260014

• 4 Nov 2021Conditional

  for (1) demolition of existing agri hayshed and (2) construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment system , along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 290sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212054

• 9 Oct 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 development: 260 msq (house) & 60 msq (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201475

• 26 Mar 2020Conditional

  to carry out the following; 1. Retain the existing fuel store/shed, 2. Demolish part of the rear dwelling house and an existing concrete water storage tank. 3. Construct extensions to the existing dwelling house, 4. Remove the existing sewage treatment facilities and install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site work. Gross floor space of proposed works; 60sqm, Gross floor space of any demolition 34sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained 30 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20392

• 4 Oct 2019Conditional

  for the following as constructed a). Dwelling house as constructed on the site, originally granted permission in 1978 under Plan. Ref. 27545 and subsequently extended under Plan. Ref. 96/740 in 1996. b). Domestic shed constructed in 1980 (approx.) c). Store for storing materials and light plant as constructed on site, originally granted permission under Plan. Ref. 03/3398 in 2003. Including all associated works on extended boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 487.2 sqm (Single Dwelling House - 224.6 sqm, Garage - 65 sqm, Light Tool Store - 197.6 sqm)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191549

• 4 Dec 2017Conditional

  of serviced dwelling house and retention of domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of work to be retained 146sqm, Garage 34sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171738

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 Culleen.

Recorded monuments

• GA043-065 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed farmland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931) as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). No visible surface trace survives. According to local information, there was a 'fort' in the 'next field'. 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

• GA043-069 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (NE-SW 41m, NW-SE 36m) defined by a much-collapsed drystone wall which survives at N and S. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and SE, to E of which a scarp forms the enclosing element. No visible surface trace survives from SW to NW. Within the interior is a probable souterrain (GA043-069001-) 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

• GA043-069001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA043-069----). This souterrain is indicated by an L-shaped stone-filled depression. The long arm (L 11.5m) runs N-S, while the shorter arm (L 9.3m) extends off this at NE end and runs WSW-ENE. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_614 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Culleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Culleen · An Coillín

Area

1,456,568 m² (145.66 ha, 359.93 acres)

Civil parish

Belclare, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Claretuam, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Claretuam electoral division: 1,132 people in 394 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagh, Caherlea, Garraun North, Garraun South, Glennafosha, Levally, Moneen, Rusheens North, Rusheens South

Placenames

Culleen 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.