Keave

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keave, from 1,266 m² to 103,925 m² (10.39 ha, 25.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Keave 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.

• 7 Jun 2018Conditional

  of dwelling house with car port, septic tank and percolation area on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained 251.6sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18772

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Castle Ffrench West Bog NHA 000280

Recorded monuments

• GA061-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Circular rath (D40m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank is visible only at NE. A gap at NW may be original. Three td. boundary walls cut the monument at NNE, SE and S. A CBG (GA061-073001-) is associated. 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

• GA061-073001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Associated with a ringfort (GA061-073----). The site name suggests the presence of a CBG but 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

• GA061-089002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked and named as a holy well in SE corner of a field on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. However, only the name appears on 3rd ed. (1915). 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Keave, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Keave · An Chéibh

Area

382,339 m² (38.23 ha, 94.48 acres)

Civil parish

Ahascragh, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Clonbrock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

606 people lived in 209 households in the Clonbrock electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunavan, Castle Ffrench West, Creggaun, Creggaun (Machugh), Keeloges, Killeen, Lattoon, Loonaghtan (Kelly), Loonaghtan (Mahon)

Placenames

Keave 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.