Dunkellin

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunkellin, from 33 m² to 85,157 m² (8.52 ha, 21.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Dunkellin 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.

• 12 Jun 2024Conditional

  for a domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 54.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460710

• 22 Mar 2023Conditional

  for a domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 54 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360275

• 26 Nov 2021Conditional

  for the following: 1) to construct a stand alone gym building ancillary to the use of the house and all associated site works, 2) to alter the side elevation of existing garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 27.89 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212217

• 2 Feb 2018Conditional

  for a) retention of partially constructed extension/alterations, b) permission to complete partially constructed dwelling house and extensions including waste water treatment and associated services all on extended site to that granted permission under Planning Ref. No. 03/484 and c) permission for domestic garage. Gross floor space of any existing building 240.5 sqm. retention 37.8m2

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1896

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 Dunkellin.

Recorded monuments

• GA103-120001 Settlement cluster
  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.

• GA103-120002 Castle - tower house
  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.

• GA103-120003 Church
  Description

  On a S-facing slope, c. 90m to the S of a castle (GA103-120003-). This heavily overgrown and much-collapsed medieval parish church (16.6m E-W; 6.4m N-S) is constructed of mortared limestone blocks. The S side-wall (H 0.3-4.1m max.) is the best wall, only the lower courses of the other walls (H 0.4-2.6m)survive, though well-executed quoin stones are visible in places. Redington (1912, 68-9) suggested that the church might be of 13th-century date based on the surviving architectural features, which included the remains of ‘three lancet windows’ in the E gable, the sills of which had recently been removed but parts of the jambs of which still survived. She also noted another window at the E end of the N side-wall and part of the W jamb of a doorway with ‘broad chamfers’ at the W end of the same wall. None of these features are now visible. A settlement cluster (GA103-120001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 February 2020

• GA103-120004 Dovecote
  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.

• GA103-121 Mound
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 18, no. 96a) as a 'Simple, round, flat-topped' barrow and described as a ‘slightly elliptical’ mound ‘28 feet x 26 feet overall and 3 feet high [8.5m by 7.9m; H 0.9m]’. A number of large boulders were embedded in it, particularly near its base. On inspection in December 1982 the mound was obscured by field-clearance rubble. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 November 2019

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic storey, built c.1800. Pitched thatched roof having decoratively scolloped ridge, and painted rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings having painted smooth rendered reveals and painted stone sills with replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening having timber battened half-door. Recent rendered boundary walls.

• Dunkellin Bridge, bridge, 1800–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Seven-arch bridge, built c.1820, carrying road over the Dunkellin River. Arches comprise central segmental river arch of c.1870, and three smaller round arches to north, now dry, and three to south. Square-headed opening to north in rebuilt mass concrete wall. Dressed and rubble limestone walls having dressed limestone voussoirs to arches.

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 Dunkellin, about 1 in 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_720 (ZIP).

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.

• Dunkellin, Kilcolgan5 sales

Name

Dunkellin · Dún Coillín

Area

411,227 m² (41.12 ha, 101.62 acres)

Civil parish

Killeely, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killeely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,929 people lived in 572 households in the Killeely electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynabucky, Ballynastaig, Castlegar, Killeely Beg, Rinn, Roevehagh

Placenames

Dunkellin 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.