Kilcloghans
Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Cill Chlocháin
- Area
- 149.6 ha
- 370 acres
- Land parcels
- 340
- registered freehold, median 261 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential Existing
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
340 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcloghans, from 5 m² to 172,980 m² (17.3 ha, 42.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 222 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 43 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Commercial / Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Residential (Phase 2) (Strategic Residential Reserve)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Oct 2024Conditional
of a dwelling house, domestic garage and all ancillary works on a site with revised site boundaries. Previous planning references 99/3439, 04/1715 & 04/2050 relate to the property. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 198.80 sqm (House) & 41.80 sqm (Garage)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461342
7 Mar 2024Conditional
of a domestic garage, along with first floor gable windows to the dwelling house. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 68 sqm
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460250
22 May 2023Conditional
for construction of 2 No. 4 Unit blocks of Town Houses (No's 122 to 127B on site layout map) and all ancillary site development works and services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23207
4 May 2023Conditional
to construct 2 No. additional bedrooms, one on ground floor and one on first floor, extend existing function room at first floor level, provide additional car parking spaces to rear of hotel incl. all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23176
13 Oct 2022Refused
to construct 1 No. detached house (site No 8 on site layout map) and all ancillary site development works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works House 146.55sqm.
Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 221106
30 Sept 2022Conditional
for additional carpark spaces on a site with revised boundaries from that previously granted under planning ref. no 01/728. To retain minor alteration to parking layout to front of hotel from that previously granted under planning ref. no 01/728. To provide additional car parking spaces to side of existing hotel. To provide 4 no electric car charging points. To incl. all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 3185 sqm of carparking spaces
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221087
15 Jun 2022Conditional
for renovations to existing home. The development will consist of amendments to the front & side elevations and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22774
24 May 2022Refused
to construct 2 No additional bedrooms, one on ground floor and one on first floor, extend existing function room at the first floor level incl. all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 140sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 22667
16 Apr 2019Conditional
sought for change of use of building No 55 to incorporate some minor layout changes to ground floor creche/playschool and Montessori, and change of use at first floor from playschool and Montessori to 2 bed apartment from that previously granted under planning Ref No 04/3362 to incl. all ancillary site development works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 185.20 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 19570
23 Jul 2018Conditional
to construct extension to form satellite kitchen, making minor alterations to existing restaurant incl. all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works 47.30sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181041
28 Nov 2017Conditional
for construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store and all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 206.30sqm, Garage 32.60sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171705
4 Jul 2017Conditional
to construct 1 No. detached house (site No 8 on site layout map) and all ancillary site development works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works House 146.55sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17989
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
Recorded monuments
- GA029-085 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the crest of a ridge in grassland. Very poorly preserved originally circular rath (D c.40m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The enclosing elements survive from SW through W to NW, and a scarp forms the enclosing element from E toSE. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. Fieldwalls cut the monument at N and 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
- GA029-086 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a NE-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 33m) defined by a denuded bank at NE and from SE through S to SW; elsewhere a degraded scarp forms the enclosing element. A field wall overlies the bank at NE. 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
- GA029-087 Ringfort - rath
Description
In gently undulating pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a conjoined circular enclosure (each D 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
- GA029-088 Ringfort - rath
Description
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- GA029-089 Fulacht fia
Description
In low-lying pasture prone to flooding. Two contiguous mounds (E-W 20.2m, N-S 12.3m, H 1.7m) separated by a depression possibly opening towards SSW. The E one is a well-preserved kidney- shaped grassed-over mound of burnt limestone with a depression on W side. Adjoining it, to W, is a smaller rectangular mound of similar character. 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
- GA029-090 Kiln - lime
Description
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- GA029-091001 Church
Description
On a S-facing slope in grassland. According to local tradition, this is the site of 'an old church and graveyard' (GA029-091002-). No visible surface trace of a church survives but an irregular area, from which stone protrudes, may mark the site of the graveyard. Upslope from it, to N, faint traces of a curving bank are visible in low sunlight from c. NW to NE; possibly the line of an encircling enclosure (GA029-091003-). Intermittent traces of a linear cashel-like drystone wall are also visible to 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
- GA029-091002 Graveyard
Description
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- GA029-091003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
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- GA029-093 Bridge
Description
Straddling an arterial drain, this small round-arched bridge is constructed of roughly coursed and mortared limestone. It has been reinforced and re-grouted with concrete. A cobbled trackway runs across its top. Probably of 18th/19th-century date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 3 April 2017
- GA029-094 Ringfort - rath
Description
In grassland overlooking bogland to E. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (D c. 25m). 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
- GA029-211001 Ringfort - rath
Description
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- GA029-211002 Souterrain
Description
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- GA029-212 Enclosure
Description
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Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcloghans.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_705 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilcloghans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcloghans · Cill Chlocháin
- Area
- 1,495,730 m² (149.57 ha, 369.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tuam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunmore
- Electoral division
- Tuam Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tuam Rural electoral division: 6,556 people in 2,346 households; 65% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Airgloony, Ardacong, Ballygaddy, Blackacre, Carrownagarry, Demesne, Gardenfield, Garracloon, Mountpotter
- Placenames
- Kilcloghans 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.