Kilcolumb

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcolumb, from 118 m² to 303,332 m² (30.33 ha, 74.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Kilcolumb 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.

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  for turf cutting and peat extraction comprising of peat extraction from a raised bog area of 5.6ha, for domestic peat fuel supply. The proposed development will include the following enabling and ancillary works: upgrade and widening of existing site entrance to public road and provision of double field gate; upgrade including local widening of 175m of existing access track and provision of a new passing bay and box culvert; new floating road of approx. 460m including passing bays and turning areas, alterations to the existing drainage system within the site, new drains, a fenced and gated silt pond with discharge to an adjacent stream, 11 no. spread grounds; carrying out of works to facebank and facebank drain including extensions where necessary ; temporary construction compound and all other ancillary site development works. The propsed development will take place on an overall site of 11.2ha. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be submitted with this application.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171863

• 24 Aug 2017Conditional

  to demolish existing dwellinghouse and store and to construct a fully serviced private dwellinghouse with treatment unit and polishing filter to include all associated works (proposed gross floor area 185.33sqm; demolition house 87.51sqm; store 16sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171273

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilcolumb.

Recorded monuments

• GA007-076 Church
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in pastureland overlooking a large tract of bogland to NW. The remains comprise a very poorly preserved rectangular church (E-W; L 14m, Wth 8m). Only a small section of S wall (L 6.3m, H 3.3m) and the grass-covered foundation lines of W gable and N wall survive. No architectural features are visible. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 75) 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

• GA007-076001 Graveyard
  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.

• GA019-050 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In marshy grassland overlooking bogland to N. A small natural spring well; some large slabs and traces of concrete rubble in the vicinity suggest that it may formerly have been enclosed. According to local information, about 802 years ago, the well originally lay in a churchyard (see GA007-076----) 800m to NE but dried up and reappeared at its present location after a woman washed some clothes in it. 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

• GA019-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Well-preserved sub-circular rath (N-S 46m, E-W 43m) defined by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. There is an entrance (Wth 3.4m) at 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

• GA019-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Circular rath (D 37.5m), in fair condition, defined by abank and by a scarp from NE to ESE. Traces of anexternal fosse at N. A field boundary cuts the bank at NE and SE. Gaps at NNW and ESE appear modern. 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

• GA019-053 Quarry
  Description

  In grassland. A hachured feature marked on the 1931 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1990 to be a disused gravel pit marked by a hollow. Probably of 19th/20th century date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 September 2014

• GA019-054 Quarry
  Description

  In an area of rough grazing land. A hachured area marked on the 1931 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 July 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Kilcolumb · Cill Cholma

Area

1,730,986 m² (173.1 ha, 427.74 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Toberroe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Toberroe electoral division: 315 people in 120 households; 90% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraghmulmurry, Keeloges East, Keeloges West, Kilmacrickard, Lisnageeragh, Rosdaul, Toberroe West

Placenames

Kilcolumb 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.