Hermitage

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hermitage, from 77 m² to 95,580 m² (9.56 ha, 23.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Hermitage 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.

• 30 Jan 2026Conditional

  to erect new timber preparation building to include concrete yard and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement and Construction Environmental Management Plan in relation to the above application will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660124

• 15 Dec 2025N/a

  to erect new timber preparation building to include concrete yard and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561854

• 29 May 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling house along with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360572

• 16 Dec 2022Conditional

  to (1) demolish existing workshop/store and (2) build new extension to existing saw mill. Gross floor space of proposed works 328.00sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition 196.00sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2261260

• 23 Aug 2019Conditional

  to build new extension to existing saw mill. Gross floor space of proposed works: 490 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191325

• 30 Nov 2018N/a

  to retain and complete partially constructed car park and construct new link access bridge over existing river to new car park on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of proposed works: 984 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 181716

• 12 May 2017Conditional

  to build new extension to existing sawmill. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 648 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17671

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: Ballygar (Aghrane) Bog SAC 002199
• Natural Heritage Area: Ballygar Bog NHA 000229

Recorded monuments

• GA033-031 Quarry
  Description

  In low-lying meadowland. A hachured area marked on the 1926 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a large overgrown pit, locally regarded as a sand pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 July 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Hermitage, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Hermitage · Ros Bhrain

Area

1,004,584 m² (100.46 ha, 248.24 acres)

Civil parish

Killeroran, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Killeroran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,301 people lived in 512 households in the Killeroran electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghrane or Castlekelly, Ballygar, Cartron, Cloonlyon, Kilmore

Placenames

Hermitage 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.