Castletown

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 255 m² to 115,653 m² (11.57 ha, 28.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 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.

• 5 Dec 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a modular dwelling house and sewage treatment plant with all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 67 sqm (house)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361449

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

• GA106-048 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pastureland. This subrectangular burial ground (c. 28m WNW-ESE; c. 16m N-S) is defined on all sides by a low bank. According to local information, it was used for the burial children. Within the interior a number of set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. (O'Flanagan 1927, II, 81) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 August 2019

• GA106-049 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a hillock in undulating pastureland and overlooking a stream c. 50m to the N. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 81) note that, according ‘to the natives’, there was a castle in this townland but it was not checked out on the ground. It is not shown on the OS 6-inch maps. However, local information suggests that a steep-sided subrectangular mound (L 26.5m; Wth 21.7m) located on the N shoulder of a hillock in the NW part of townland marks it site. The mound was possibly constructed by scarping the sides of the hillock. It stands up to 6m in height at N, sloping to 2m at S. On its flat summit is a small almost square depression (L 7m; Wth 6m) surrounded by a grassed-over rubble bank (Wth c. 2m, H c. 1m). No trace of any architectural fragments, cut stone or mortar was noted. A field system (GA106-049001-) surrounds the site. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 23 September 2021

• GA106-049001 Field system
  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 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

498,489 m² (49.85 ha, 123.18 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeygormacan, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Abbeygormacan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

464 people lived in 162 households in the Abbeygormacan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonprask, Cormick, Cormick, Drumatober, Kilbride, Liscoyle

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.