Kilcooley

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcooley, from 172 m² to 267,882 m² (26.79 ha, 66.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Kilcooley 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 May 2024Conditional

  to construct extension to dwelling house, alterations to existing dwelling and install wastewater treatment system and percolation area and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 92 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460583

• 12 Dec 2023N/a

  for a new slatted shed and underground storage tanks and all ancillary site works. This application also includes an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report and a Natura Impact Statement. Gross floor space of proposed works: 491 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23480

• 7 Nov 2023Refused

  to construct extension to dwellinghouse, alterations to existing dwelling & install wastewater treatment system, percolation area & associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 92sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361327

• 24 Mar 2023N/a

  for a new slatted shed and underground storage tanks and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 491 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23122

• 9 Apr 2019Conditional

  to demolish existing dwelling house and construct new replacement dwelling house and septic tank / proprietary effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 105 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19520

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: Kilsallagh Bog SAC 000285
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilsallagh Bog 000285

Recorded monuments

• GA007-077 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a subcircular enclosure (NW-SE c. 50m). All that survives is a subcircular area (E-W 44m ext.) defined by a shallow but wide fosse (Wth 5m). best preserved from S to NW. A field boundary cuts across the fosse at N. 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

• GA007-078 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a subcircular enclosure (D c. 40m), the S part of which was cut through by a laneway running E-W. What survives is a semicircular area, to N of the laneway, defined by shallow fosse (Wth 3m) from NW through N to 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

• GA007-079 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland which slopes gently to S. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m) cut by a field boundary at SSE and WSW. All that survives is a subcircular area defined by a shallow but wide fosse (Wth 3-4m). A field fence cuts across the monument at SE and SW, and there is a hollow in W half of the interior. 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

• GA007-080 Quarry
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. The source of this record is an oblong hachured area (c. 55m E-W by 15m N-S) indicated on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is named 'Quarry (disused)' on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16). When inspected in 1984 all that was visible was a pit. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 9 January 2014

• GA007-081 Penal Mass station
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. The source of this record is a hachured area indicated on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is named 'Quarry (disused)' on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16). According to local information, this pit was used as a place for celebrating mass during penal times. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 9 January 2014

• GA007-115 Boundary mound
  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilcooley · Cill Chúile

Area

1,515,596 m² (151.56 ha, 374.51 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcroan, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Kilcroan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcroan electoral division: 596 people in 224 households; 75% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Ballyglass North, Ballyglass South, Kilsallagh, Knockogonnell, Oughtagh, Turlough

Placenames

Kilcooley 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.