Kilcaimin

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcaimin, from 173 m² to 50,204 m² (5.02 ha, 12.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Kilcaimin 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.

• 13 Nov 2024Conditional

  to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 198 sqm (House) and 39.50 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461532

• 16 May 2019Refused

  for extension to cottage and new effluent treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 139 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19747

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: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

• GA095-051 Church
  Description

  On a W-facing slope in grassland, overlooking Mweeloon Bay. This medieval rectangular church (9.8m E-W; 7.6m N-S) is very poorly preserved. Only the ivy-covered W gable and the N side-wall survive, both stand to their original height. A small square window visible high up in the W gable, suggests the former presence of a loft. According to the OS Letters, this church probably occupied the site of an earlier one (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 300-1). Holt (1912, 244) agreed with this noting a number of large blocks scattered about the associated graveyard (GA095-051001-) and also 'traces of ancient foundations near the present W. gable.' There is a 17th-century memorial stone (GA095-051002-) on the ground near the N wall. (McCaffrey 1952, 81, 132, no. 19) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 February 2020

• GA095-051001 Graveyard
  Description

  This irregularly shaped graveyard (c. 60m NE-SE; c. 58m NW-SE), which is still in use, is associated with a medieval church (GA095-051----) that occupies its NW corner. It is enclosed by a stone wall and access is gained at SE. Most of the headstones are modern but the earliest noted dated to 1681. One unusual grave-marker consists of a slab with a rounded head bearing a Maltese cross. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 February 2020

• GA095-051002 Memorial stone
  Description

  Holt (244) recorded a 'small tablet' on the ground close to the N wall of the medieval church (GA095-051----). A packing of stones around it suggested it had been intentionally fixed in that place. The slab bore the following inscription: IH S PRAYERFORT HESOULOFVN YKENNYWH ODEYEDTHE14 OFFEB 1687 Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 February 2020

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Pitched thatched roof having scolloped flush ridge, and low partly rendered red brick chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having painted reveals and painted sills with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening having replacement timber battened door. House is set at right angle to road, with wrought-iron pedestrian gate set to rendered piers in rubble stone boundary walls, with garden to front of house.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_573 (ZIP).

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

Name

Kilcaimin · Cill Cháimín

Area

139,879 m² (13.99 ha, 34.56 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynacourty, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Ballynacourty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynacourty electoral division: 1,233 people in 428 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cottage, Cregganna Beg, Garraun Lower, Rinville East, Seafield, Treanlaur

Placenames

Kilcaimin 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.