Cankilly

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cankilly, from 654 m² to 651,153 m² (65.12 ha, 160.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Cankilly 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cankilly in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Kilnaborris Bog NHA 000284

Recorded monuments

• GA109-004 House - 20th century
  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.

• GA109-055 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In tillage on a gentle S-facing slope, c. 70m to the N of a stream. Described by the landowner as a patch of dark soil within which some blackened stones were evident. On inspection due to ploughing and the planting of barley, no visible surface traces were evident. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cankilly, about 1 in 20 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cankilly · Ceann na Coille

Area

1,592,178 m² (159.22 ha, 393.44 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Kilmacshane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

234 people lived in 85 households in the Kilmacshane electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill, Cloonkea, Killeragh, Killoran, Kilmacshane (Turbett), Kilnaborris, Rooaun

Placenames

Cankilly 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.