Graigueachullaire

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Graigueachullaire, from 204 m² to 195,510 m² (19.55 ha, 48.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Graigueachullaire 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.

• 17 Jan 2025Conditional

  to construct a three bay slatted cattle shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 188 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 256

• 20 Jan 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and for all other ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 256.5 sqm, Garage - 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2048

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 Graigueachullaire.

Recorded monuments

• GA016-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On E-facing slope of a rise inundulating grassland. Known locally as 'Hill Fort' (Neary 1914, 123, no. 151), this circular rath (D 46m), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and anintervening fosse. The inner bank is present from Ethrough S to N; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosingelement. The outer bank is overlain by a field bankfrom ENE through S to NNW. Within the interior is acircular structure of grassed-over stone (D 4.8m), possibly a house. 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

• GA016-055001 House - indeterminate date
  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.

• GA016-056001 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland, overlooking bogland and a stream to S. Poorly preserved, partially natural, flat-topped earthen mound (14.5m N-S, 10.6m E-W) surrounded by an egg-shaped enclosure (40m N-S, E-W 28m) defined by a fosse. Traces of an outer bank survive at SSW. A castle (GA016-056002-) occupied the top of the mound. (Neary 1914, 124, no. 150) 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

• GA016-056002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On top of a motte and bailey (GA016-056001-). In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Thomas Balve' (Nolan 1901b, 117). According to Neary (1914, 124, no. 150), the remains of the castle comprised 'Nine huge blocks of masonry strewn around and upwards of ten tons each [which] have kept together with wonderful cohesion. Tradition says the binding material was a compost of animal blood, sand and lime. The state of the ruin suggests that it was blown up'. Several large chunks of uncoursed mortared limestone masonry still lie about the top of the motte. No architectural features survive. Slight undulations in the ground surface may be grassed-over footings of the castle walls. Neary (ibid.) also refers to a rectangular 'subsidiary building 20 ft. lower down on N', and to 'an opening to a souterrain in the centre of the castle': no visible surface trace of these survive; the latter is unlikely to be a souterrain. He also mentions the existence of a 'picture' (probably a painting) of the castle which showed it to be 'as massive as Dunmore' (see GA017-069----) 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 Graigueachullaire.

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 Graigueachullaire, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Graigueachullaire · Gráig an Choiléir

Area

2,397,016 m² (239.7 ha, 592.32 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Doonbally, the unit of the census

Census 2022

626 people lived in 210 households in the Doonbally electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aille, Ardnagall, Grange, Killeenan Beg, Killeenan More, Kilnaslieve, Knockballyvishteal, Lurgan, Sylaun West

Placenames

Graigueachullaire 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.