# Hermitage, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeroran, barony of Killian, Co. Galway; in Irish Ros Bhrain. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,004,584 m² (100.46 ha, 248.24 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,320 m² (1.83 ha, 4.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeroran, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killeroran.md - Barony: Killian - Electoral division: Killeroran, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20486 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62420 - Centre: latitude 53.529207, longitude -8.349416 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hermitage, from 77 m² to 95,580 m² (9.56 ha, 23.62 acres); 32 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2060953: 95,580 m² (9.56 ha, 23.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060953.md - Parcel 2060946: 94,304 m² (9.43 ha, 23.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060946.md - Parcel 6122020: 84,620 m² (8.46 ha, 20.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6122020.md - Parcel 4649761: 80,427 m² (8.04 ha, 19.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4649761.md - Parcel 2060952: 57,639 m² (5.76 ha, 14.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060952.md - Parcel 4661104: 53,662 m² (5.37 ha, 13.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4661104.md - Parcel 6122038: 52,053 m² (5.21 ha, 12.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6122038.md - Parcel 2111091: 51,578 m² (5.16 ha, 12.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111091.md - Parcel 2111089: 48,673 m² (4.87 ha, 12.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111089.md - Parcel 2111088: 47,244 m² (4.72 ha, 11.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111088.md - Parcel 2111082: 45,796 m² (4.58 ha, 11.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111082.md - Parcel 2111092: 45,545 m² (4.55 ha, 11.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111092.md - Parcel 2111084: 38,570 m² (3.86 ha, 9.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111084.md - Parcel 2111087: 38,192 m² (3.82 ha, 9.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111087.md - Parcel 2060948: 31,856 m² (3.19 ha, 7.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060948.md - Parcel 2111086: 27,319 m² (2.73 ha, 6.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111086.md - Parcel 5823478: 21,057 m² (2.11 ha, 5.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5823478.md - Parcel 2111085: 18,320 m² (1.83 ha, 4.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111085.md - Parcel 5135488: 17,774 m² (1.78 ha, 4.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5135488.md - Parcel 2761087: 10,943 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2761087.md - Parcel 2374811: 10,403 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2374811.md - Parcel 2060947: 10,399 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060947.md - Parcel 2111081: 5,071 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111081.md - Parcel 2374812: 3,167 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2374812.md - Parcel 2060945: 2,280 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060945.md - Parcel 4697460: 2,234 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4697460.md - Parcel 2111080: 2,088 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111080.md - Parcel 2060950: 2,066 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060950.md - Parcel 2060951: 1,280 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060951.md - Parcel 2111090: 1,001 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111090.md - Parcel 2432465: 817 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2432465.md - Parcel 2060949: 650 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060949.md - Parcel 4461167: 451 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4461167.md - Parcel 1923589: 314 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923589.md - Parcel 4461168: 77 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4461168.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 30 Jan 2026, Galway County Council 2660124: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660124/0 - 15 Dec 2025, Galway County Council 2561854: N/a. Permission. to erect new timber preparation building to include concrete yard and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561854/0 - 29 May 2023, Galway County Council 2360572: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling house along with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360572/0 - 16 Dec 2022, Galway County Council 2261260: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2261260/0 - 23 Aug 2019, Galway County Council 191325: Conditional. Permission. to build new extension to existing saw mill. Gross floor space of proposed works: 490 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191325/0 - 30 Nov 2018, Galway County Council 181716: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181716/0 - 12 May 2017, Galway County Council 17671: Conditional. Permission. to build new extension to existing sawmill. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 648 sqm.). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17671/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Ballygar (Aghrane) Bog SAC, site code 002199, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002199 - Natural Heritage Area: Ballygar Bog NHA, site code 000229, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/000229 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA033-031: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA033-031----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Hermitage. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/hermitage.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/hermitage.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/hermitage.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Hermitage with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghrane or Castlekelly: https://everytownland.com/galway/aghrane-or-castlekelly.md - Ballygar: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballygar.md - Cartron: https://everytownland.com/galway/cartron-61060.md - Cloonlyon: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonlyon.md - Kilmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilmore-62714.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/hermitage - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/hermitage