Kilfelligy
Townland in the civil parish of Killoscobe, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Cill Filige
- Area
- 33.8 ha
- 83 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 10,673 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilfelligy, from 14 m² to 61,914 m² (6.19 ha, 15.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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
No zone of a development plan covers Kilfelligy 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
8 Jan 2026Conditional
to extend a slatted shed, tanks and all associated site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 2660008
12 Jun 2023Conditional
for revisions to the previously granted dwellinghouse (Pl. Ref. 21/2171), to include: a) single storey porch to front elevation, b) addition & revision of windows on front, rear & side elevations, & c) reduction in floor area from 256m2 to 252m2
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23237
22 Nov 2021Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house (291 sqm), garage, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 291 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212171
28 Jun 2018Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 278.15sqm, Garage 33.00sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18911
5 Jun 2018Conditional
to extend and reconstruct dwelling house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 95.38sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18761
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 Kilfelligy.
Recorded monuments
- GA059-039 Church
Description
On level ground in a small subrectangular graveyard. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small almost square roofed rectangular building (c. 8m by c. 5m), aligned WSW-ENE. All that is visible are two parallel grassed-over foundation lines, probably indicating N and S side-walls of a rectangular church (E-W; L >7m, Wth c. 6m). No architectural features survive. A burial vault lies within 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
- GA059-039001 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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilfelligy.
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 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilfelligy.
- 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 Kilfelligy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Kilfelligy · Cill Filige
- Area
- 337,553 m² (33.76 ha, 83.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killoscobe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tiaquin
- Electoral division
- Mounthazel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mounthazel electoral division: 544 people in 194 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corgerry Eighter, Corgerry Oughter, Graigue, Rahins
- Placenames
- Kilfelligy 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.