Carrowkilleen

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkilleen, from 2,382 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 301,447 m² (30.14 ha, 74.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 52 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrowkilleen 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 Jun 2026Refused

  construction of a new slatted shed with calf creep area, loose bedded area and all associated ancillary concrete works. Gross floor space of proposed works 484.22sqm.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 26141

• 25 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct a three bay double slatted shed with creep areas. Gross floor space of proposed works: 389 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25192

• 11 Feb 2022N/a

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, proprietary waste water treatment system including ancillary site services and works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 172.2 sqm (house) & 42.3 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22175

• 21 Oct 2021Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage, on site wastewater treatment/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works:216 sqm (house) & 38.1 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211947

• 26 Mar 2021Conditional

  construction of a new slatted shed with calf creep area, loose bedded area and all associated ancillary concrete works. Gross floor space of proposed works 484.22sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21474

• 7 Mar 2019N/a

  and planning permission to; a) retain site boundaries as they exist on the ground b) retain the on-site waste water treatment system as constructed and installed under Grant of Planning Permission Ref: 03/6670 c) construct an on-site bored well to serve the dwelling house as constructed under Grant of Planning Permission Ref: 03/6670 including all ancillary site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 19317

• 13 Feb 2019Conditional

  for previously permitted dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store and wastewater treatment system on revised site boundaries to that previously granted under planning reference number 02/4910. Gross floor space of work to be retained 185.22sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19191

• 13 Jun 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 196 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18795

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 Carrowkilleen.

Recorded monuments

• GA113-086 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In an area of scrubland and outcropping rock. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 27m). No visible surface trace survives. The slightly curving field boundary shown on the 1922 edition of the map at this point at SW may mirror its outline. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 22 July 2019

• GA113-089 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In an area of gently undulating grassland and rock outcrop. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 25.7m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain by field-clearance rubble. The remains of two house sites (GA113-089001- and GA113-089002-) are visible within the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 January 2017

• GA113-089001 Hut site
  Description

  Roughly centrally located within the interior of a cashel (GA113-089----), the remains of this circular house site (diam. c. 6m) consist of a grassy bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.4m). Only the E half survives. The remains of a similar house site (GA113-089002-) are also visible in the SW quadrant. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 January 2017

• GA113-089002 Hut site
  Description

  Within the SW quadrant of the interior of a cashel (GA113-089----). The remains of this circular house site (diam. 4.5m) are defined by a grassy bank that survives from NW to SE. It is most clearly defined from W to NE but no visible trace survives from S to NW. Another similar house site (GA113-0890001-) is visible to the NE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 January 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_578 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Carrowkilleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Carrowkilleen · Ceathrú an Choillín

Area

2,326,669 m² (232.67 ha, 574.93 acres)

Civil parish

Killinny, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kinvarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kinvarra electoral division: 1,558 people in 552 households; 80% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagno, Ballybuck North, Cahercon, Cahererillan, Cappagh Beg, Cloonnasee, Gortskeagh, Moy

Placenames

Carrowkilleen 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.