Castlegar

While maps may be dispersed throughout this site, of Castlegar, County Galway; this will be the main page for how to integrate them, use them, find geo- coordinates and so on.

Javascript

You may see a message saying something like "Javascript must be enabled to view this map", which means that you must enable it on the browser of your computer. See http://gsaauctions.gov/brow_details/IE6instr.htm which has descriptions and images of how to do this.

Google Maps

Unfortunately, Google™ does not cover the East of the Parish too well in Satellite mode. By toggling the views though, some idea is presented.

• By clicking on a marker, a description of that area should pop up with links to more specific information where it applies.
• Double click to zoom.
• Consider this site to be the authority on locations within Castlegar, and that general map utilities must do their best, given their limited knowledge of the area.

On the map above, we have placed map markers for the following sights, landmarks and Castlegar Businesses ;

1. Castlegar National School
2. Castlegar Castle
3. Baby World
4. Mc Mahons
5. Kennys garage
6. An Post sorting centre
7. Monaghans service station
8. Castlegar Grotto
9. Saint Columba's Church
10. Ballindooley Cross
11. Menlo National School
12. K.P.H.
13. Lyons's Estate
14. Casserlys Industrial Estate
15. Mc Hughs Pub
16. Cloonacauneen Castle
17. Killeen Castle
18. Ballybrit Crescent (Back gates of the Racecourse).
19. Briarhill School
20. Church of the Good Shepherd
21. Carrowbrowne
22. Briarhill Shopping Centre
23. Flaherty Haulage
24. Coolough Church (Saint Peter and Paul)

Kml / Kmz files to date; (You must have Google Earth to view)

K.M.L. (keyhole markup language) files are like xml, where you make them, host them on a site, and allow google to index them if you wish. They allow you to embed html, pointing back to your site or specific pages within it.

If indexed, they can be viewed across the world in Google maps and Google Earth; allowing someone from the west of Ireland or the east of Australia to engage directly in the mapping of the earth. Alternatively, you can download them and view them in your Google Earth Desktop version. Kmz is a compressed kml file (which can allow the overlaying of images, icons, etc.). We can change the contents of any public file, later, to refine accuracy and/or descriptions.

• Anglingham, Castlegar, County Galway.kmz  Approximate Anglingham
• Briarhill Primary School, Casltegar, County Galway.kmz  - Briarhill School
• Ballindooley Castle.kmz  - Ballindooley Castle
• Castlegar Castle.kmz     -  Castlegar Castle
• Lisheen Graveyard in Ballybrit, Castlegar, County Galway..kmz  - Lisheen Graveyard
• Menlo Pier, Castlegar, County Galway.kmz  - Menlo Pier
• Ballindooley Cross.kmz  - Ballindooley Cross Roads
• Castlegar National School.kmz  - Castlegar School
• Entrance to Menlo Castle, Castlegar, County Galway.kmz  - Entrance to Menlo Castle

If you download all, then it make a pleasant tour of Castlegar.

Another method for quickly  making k.m.l. files (maps) is to find coordinates from any source (this website, wikipedia for larger less regional areas, embedded in the urls of yahoo maps or flash earth), and load them into the following web form; http://www.andrewdavidson.com/google-earth-kml-creator/

Ideally, all files should be validated with something like  http://www.kmlvalidator.com/home.htm , though Google Earth is not too fussy.