Kilcolumb
Kilcolumb is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmaley, barony of Islands, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Cill Cholaim.
- Area
- 270.4 ha
- 668 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 8,563 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcolumb, from 1,121 m² to 328,700 m² (32.87 ha, 81.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilcolumb 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Jan 2025Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system, new entrance onto the public road and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2524
28 Nov 2024Conditional
Consequent on the Grant of Outline Permission (reference No. P21/913) to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24398
29 Aug 2024N/a
to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system, new entrance onto the public road and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24272
15 Sept 2022Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, garage, sewage treatment sysem, construct a new entrance onto public road and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22827
28 Apr 2022Conditional
of actual location of dwelling house, sewage treatment system and associated percolation area to that as previously granted under planning permission P05-1121
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22387
1 Sept 2021Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21913
27 Jul 2018Conditional
to construct a slatted unit with an underground slurry storage tanks for housing livestock on the farm
Permission · Clare County Council, 18610
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilcolumb.
Recorded monuments
- CL032-034 Children's burial ground
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.
- CL032-035 Ringfort - rath
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.
- CL032-036 Ringfort - rath
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.
- CL032-037 Ringfort - rath
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 Kilcolumb.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kilcolumb, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilcolumb.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilcolumb with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcolumb · Cill Cholaim
- Area
- 2,703,596 m² (270.36 ha, 668.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmaley, and its townlands
- Barony
- Islands
- Electoral division
- Furroor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 288 people lived in 102 households in the Furroor electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balleen, Bealcragga, Knockmore, Lehaknock, Lisroe, Reanagishagh, Sheeaun
- Placenames
- Kilcolumb 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.