Hillswood

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hillswood, from 286 m² to 462,523 m² (46.25 ha, 114.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 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 Hillswood 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Hillswood in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Hillswood.

Recorded monuments

• GA073-091 Ringfort - unclassified
  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.

• GA073-091001 Souterrain
  Description

  On a hillock in rolling grassland. Poorly preserved overgrown oval rath (N-S 32m, E-W 22m) defined by two banks and two fosses. The inner bank is visible from NW through N to NNE; elsewhere an a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosses and outer bank survive from NW through N to NNE. InNW sector of interior, a rectangular hollow (L 8m), running E-W, is possibly the remains of a souterrain. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA073-092 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying wet pastureland, 250m SE of Hillswood House. A poorly preserved enclosure (D 33m) defined by a bank, except from N to SE, and an external fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA073-093 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In rolling grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 35m) defined by a bank breached by numerous cattle gaps. In W sector of interior is a souterrain (GA073-093001-) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA073-093001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within NW quadrant of a ringfort (GA073-093----). A poorly preserved drystone-built souterrain (L 11m, Wth 1.8m) curving from N through E to S. Only the extreme N end survives intact. A large limestone slab standing upright in the middle of chamber may be a collapsed roof lintel. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA073-094 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a hill in rolling grassland. P oorly preserved circular rath (D 30m) defined by adegraded bank and external fosse. There is a stone-lined entrance causeway (Wth 2.5m) at S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA073-095 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a rise in grassland. Poorlypreserved circular rath (D 33m) defined by two banksand an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer banksurvive only at N. A field wall cuts the monument at N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA073-096 Enclosure
  Description

  On a hill in gently rolling pastureland, 500m NW of Hillswood House. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). No visible surface trace survives. On the hill to N, four limestone posts stand on top of a wall running E-W; known locally as 'The Spikes'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA073-097 Quarry
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. A roughly subcircular feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused quarry. 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: 17 July 2014

• GA073-098 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying farmland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a rectangular enclosure (c. 35m by c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA073-100 Country 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.

• GA073-163 Mound
  Description

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• GA086-147 Designed landscape feature
  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Hillswood · Loch an Chléirigh Mór

Area

1,845,512 m² (184.55 ha, 456.04 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Kilconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilconnell electoral division: 658 people in 225 households; 91% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Cartrondoogan, Cloonacalleen, Clooncallis, Liscune Upper, Loughaclerybeg, Moneyveen

Placenames

Hillswood 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.