# Kildrum, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghpatrick, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Cill Droma. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 780,597 m² (78.06 ha, 192.89 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,638 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghpatrick, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/donaghpatrick.md - Barony: Clare - Electoral division: Kilcoona, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 662 people lived in 215 households in the Kilcoona electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21714 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62591 - Centre: latitude 53.4861, longitude -9.009278 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kildrum, from 43 m² to 374,207 m² (37.42 ha, 92.47 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4618488: 374,207 m² (37.42 ha, 92.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4618488.md - Parcel 2079420: 309,908 m² (30.99 ha, 76.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2079420.md - Parcel 2031359: 55,956 m² (5.6 ha, 13.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2031359.md - Parcel 2079421: 10,978 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2079421.md - Parcel 4618482: 8,288 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4618482.md - Parcel 2079422: 6,432 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2079422.md - Parcel 4631061: 3,986 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4631061.md - Parcel 2031358: 2,638 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2031358.md - Parcel 5655712: 2,632 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5655712.md - Parcel 2031465: 2,188 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2031465.md - Parcel 2079423: 1,958 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2079423.md - Parcel 4671264: 659 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4671264.md - Parcel 2031360: 657 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2031360.md - Parcel 2031466: 296 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2031466.md - Parcel 5289545: 43 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5289545.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Kildrum in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 20 Aug 2024, Galway County Council 2461079: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of: (1) existing dwelling house on revised site boundary. (2) Retain existing vehicular entrance in the Easterly direction of the roadside boundary. (3) Close up existing vehicular entrance in the westerly direction of the roadside boundary. (4) Decommission existing substandard septic tank. (5) Construct a new septic tank effluent treatment system and percolation area including all associated site development works. Planning reference number (Old28585). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461079/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kildrum. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA042-148: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA042-148----. On a N-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved oval rath (N-S 50.4m, E-W c. 40m) defined by a bank from E through S to NW. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. Traces of an external fosse survive only 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 - GA042-149: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA042-149----. On N-facing slope of a low hill in grassland. Marked on OS Fair Plan as 'Andrews Fort' and represented subsequently on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). 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 - GA042-150: Cairn - burial cairn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA042-150----. On the summit of a flat-topped hill (OD 330.5ft), 2.5km W of Knockmaa (see GA042-064002-). Named 'Poulnahallia or Kildrum' on OS Fair Plan, it is a grassed-over flat-topped subcircular cairn (E-W 12.2m, N-S 11.7m, H c. 4m) in fair condition. A slight hollow on the summit appears to be the result of modern interference. A human skull and a whetstone were found during 'excavations' in 1902 (Costello 1905, 37; Waddell 1975, 18; 1990, 94). 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 - GA042-150001: Burial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA042-150001-. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kildrum. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Kildrum, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kildrum. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/kildrum.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/kildrum.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/kildrum.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Kildrum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Caherlustraun: https://everytownland.com/galway/caherlustraun.md - Carrowconlaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowconlaun.md - Cave: https://everytownland.com/galway/cave-61120.md - Kilwullaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilwullaun.md - Stonepark or Bawnmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/stonepark-or-bawnmore.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/kildrum - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/kildrum