Gilkagh

123 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gilkagh, from 60 m² to 156,005 m² (15.6 ha, 38.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Gilkagh 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.

• 29 Nov 2024Conditional

  to construct silage slab and extension to existing slatted shed to accommodate cubicle shed with slatted tanks to include concrete aprons and all associated site works. Gross floor space of works: 531.48 sqm, 189.84 sqm (Extension)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 24342

• 14 Oct 2024N/a

  to construct a silage slab and extension to existing slatted shed to accommodate cubicle shed with slatted tanks to include concrete aprons and all associated site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 24301

• 9 Nov 2021Conditional

  for previously approved planning permission. Ref 21/33 for the relocation and completion of dwelling house and garage under construction, septic tank/treatment plant with percolation area, revised site boundaries and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 258 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212084

• 20 Jan 2021Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage, new septic tank/treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 258 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2133

• 9 Jun 2020Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with cubicles to include concrete aprons and all associated work. Gross floor space of proposed works; shed - 576.52sqm aprons - 205sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20705

• 2 Mar 2017Conditional

  for the construction of dwelling house domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 256 sqm dwelling, 36 sqm. garage.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17285

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Natural Heritage Area: Killaclogher Bog NHA 001280

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gilkagh.

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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

Name

Gilkagh · An Ghiolcach

Area

2,252,090 m² (225.21 ha, 556.5 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Derryglassaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derryglassaun electoral division: 976 people in 332 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbert Demesne, Cloonkeen, Derryglassaun, Skehanagh, Windfield Demesne, Windfield Upper

Placenames

Gilkagh 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.