Keekill

169 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keekill, from 32 m² to 161,110 m² (16.11 ha, 39.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Keekill 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.

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  for alterations and extension to existing dwelling (revisions to previously approved Planning Ref; 32640 and 18/1703) and retain new domestic garage

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561058

• 15 May 2025N/a

  of alterations and extension to existing dwelling (revisions to previously approved Planning Ref; 32640 and 18/1703) and retain new domestic garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 65.71 sqm(H), 90.40 sqm(G)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560596

• 4 Oct 2024Conditional

  of variations to PP 98/863: a) revised orientation of garage/shed, b) increased height of garage/shed, c) roadside timber fence in place of stone wall. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 82.03 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461304

• 3 Mar 2020Refused

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 238 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20274

• 29 Nov 2018Conditional

  of serviced dwelling house on revised site boundaries previously granted under planning ref. 32640. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 193sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181703

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

• GA056-072001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. A large poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (NNW-SSE 78m) defined by a drystone wall from WNW through N to SSE. Gap at ENE appears modern. A field wall cuts the monument at WNW and SSE, to SW of which the enclosing element is visible only as a grassed-over bank. A CBG (GA056-092002-) lies in E sector of the interior. When coupled with the td. name, the physical remains suggest that the monument is ecclesiastical in nature. 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

• GA056-072002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In E sector of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA056-072002-). Irregular overgrown area (NNE-SSW 40m, WNW-ESE 27.5m) defined by a field wall, which may overlie an earlier wall along S, W and N sides, and by the bank of the enclosure at E. Within the interior, numerous randomly placed set stones, including a number of rectangular plots, indicate graves. 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

• GA056-074 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In low-lying marshy grassland prone to flooding, c. 100m S of a stream. A low grassed-over roughly D-shaped platform (E-W 14.5m, N-S 7.8m, H 0.5m) composed of earth and stone. Two hollows occupy the flat summit of the platform: possibly a house with traces of an internal division. An old field boundary, running WNW-ESE, comprising a line of boulders clips the monument along its S side. 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

• Plum Cottage, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with dormer attic, porch to front, and slightly lower return to rear. Pitched thatched roof with decorative knotting to raised ridge, rendered stone copings, and having one rendered chimneystack to middle of ridge. Pitched thatched roof to return and lean-to thatched roof to porch. Rendered walls with plinth course and timber eaves course. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, painted stone sills and timber sheeted door. Set back from road with garden to front and yard to rear, with random rubble stone boundary wall with timber gate. Ruinous single-storey outbuilding to south-east and two-storey random rubble outbuilding to rear.

• The Cottage, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having late twentieth-century single-storey extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with decorative knotting to ridge, stone copings to gables, and one low rendered chimneystack. Pitched slate roof to extension. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with raised render reveals and replacement uPVC windows. Glazed timber square-headed door to front. Outbuildings to rear. House set at angle to road with low lime rendered random rubble stone boundary wall to road with square piers and timber gate.

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 5 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 Keekill.

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

Name

Keekill · Caolchoill

Area

1,979,040 m² (197.9 ha, 489.03 acres)

Civil parish

Killeany, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killeany, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killeany electoral division: 617 people in 218 households; 85% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kiltrasna, Muckcoort

Placenames

Keekill 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.