Kilcrow
Kilcrow is a townland in the civil parish of Killimorbologue, barony of Longford, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Coill Chró.
- Area
- 87.3 ha
- 216 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 9,870 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcrow, from 2,077 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 244,093 m² (24.41 ha, 60.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilcrow 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Jul 2024Conditional
for; (a) construction of a new dwelling, (b) construction of a domestic garage/store, (c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area, (d) new site entrance and (e) all associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (House) 240.41 sqm & (Garage) 60.16 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24186
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilcrow.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilcrow.
Architectural heritage
- Kilcrow Bridge, bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1860, carrying road over Kilcrow River. Roughly dressed snecked limestone walls. Segmental arch with rusticated voussoirs and dressed stone soffit and piers. Rubble stone parapet walls with vertical rubble stone coping stones, and with some concrete repairs. Dressed stone revetments to river bank to south.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kilcrow, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilcrow.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kilcrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcrow · Coill Chró
- Area
- 872,679 m² (87.27 ha, 215.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killimorbologue, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Derrew, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 186 people lived in 59 households in the Derrew electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghany, Claremadden, Derrew, Killadullisk, Killiane, Laughil
- Placenames
- Kilcrow 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.