Inchiquin

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inchiquin, from 186 m² to 156,817 m² (15.68 ha, 38.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 0 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 Inchiquin 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.

• 23 Feb 2024Conditional

  to carry out alterations to existing dwelling and installation of new serviced driveway and parking area

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460192

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  for alterations to the existing garden shed outbuilding including; 1. the shed's partial change of use to a garden room living space, 2. alteration to the sheds existing window and door, 3. the provision of a new roof window in the proposed new garden room. Gross floor space of proposed works: 29.86 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211800

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
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA041-033 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In an area of fertile pasture on S side of the island of Inchiquin, Lough Corrib. Poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (N-S c. 30m) which according to the landowner was defined by a drystone wall. Subsequently removed by the landowner a number of years ago and a modern drystone wall was built upon its line. The interior, now used as a garden, once contained a CBG (GA041-033001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. 1 - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA041-033001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In SE sector of a ringfort (GA041-033----). According to local tradition the CBG consisted of an area of small set stones, but these were cleared away a number of years ago. This may well be synonymous with the 'small spot formerly used as a burial place for children', mentioned in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 172). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA041-034001 Burial ground
  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.

• GA041-034002 Church
  Description

  This island, in Lough Corrib, is the site of an early monastery reputedly founded by St Brendan the Navigator. It also contained an ancient burial ground known as 'Rathmath'. Faint foundation lines of a building, possibly a church, can be seen at NE end of the island close to the shore. It is rectangular in plan (E-W; L c. 7.6m, Wth 4.7m ext.) but no architectural features survive. This spot is still respected locally but no visible trace of the burial ground survives. (Kelly 1897, 385-6; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 276; Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 386) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Inchiquin, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Inchiquin · Inis Mhic Uí Chuinn

Area

1,156,699 m² (115.67 ha, 285.83 acres)

Civil parish

Killursa, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killursa, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,135 people lived in 397 households in the Killursa electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Placenames

Inchiquin 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.