Kilgarriff

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgarriff, from 2 m² to 396,020 m² (39.6 ha, 97.86 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 Kilgarriff 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.

• 7 Aug 2026N/a

  to construct horse stables & farmyard manure pit

  Permission · Galway County Council, 26198

• 27 May 2025Conditional

  for the 1. extension to previously approved granny flat (Planning Ref No 07/120) and waste water treatment system on a site with revised boundaries. 2. Permission for the change to same for use as a single dwelling house incl. all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 168.00 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560656

• 10 Apr 2025Conditional

  of existing dwelling house on a site with revised boundaries from that previously granted under planning ref. 07/120, and permission for supply and fit upgraded waste water treatment system with percolation area to include all ancillary site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2574

• 20 Dec 2024N/a

  of an extension to an existing granny flat from that previously granted under planning ref no 07/120, to include all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 168 sqm(extension)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24371

• 23 May 2022Conditional

  to construct serviced agricultural shed. Gross floor area of proposed works: 230 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2260529

• 13 Feb 2018Conditional

  to construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and domestic garage along with all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 248.56 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18151

• 21 Nov 2017Conditional

  to construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and domestic garage along with all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 216sqm, Garage 32.56sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171673

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA056-090 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in grassland. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (D 38m) defined by a drystone wall reduced to a rubble spread and overlain by a field wall at NE. The wall is best preserved at SW where inner and outer wall-facing survive. According to local tradition, there is a 'cave' (possible souterrain) within the interior; no visible surface trace survives. A ringfort (GA056-091----) lies c. 80m to NNW. 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

• GA056-090001 Souterrain
  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.

• GA056-091 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Some 80m NNW of a ringfort (GA056-090----). Circular cashel (D 31m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall. A gap at SE may be 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

• GA056-092 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. Circular cashel (D c. 28m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall overlain by a field wall from NW through N to NE. A gap at SE could be original. A collapsed rectangular structure of stone (NE-SW; L 18m, Wth 3.2m), probably a house, is visible in SSE sector 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

• GA056-093 Ringfort - unclassified
  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.

• GA056-093001 Souterrain
  Description

  In low-lying undulating grassland. Described in 1954 (Topgr. Files, NMI): 'Stone ringfort single rampart. No sign of fosse. Oval, approximately [?]ft. N-S, 120ft [36.5m] E-W ... muchruined and heavily overgrown'. Duignan (Topgr. Files, UCG) also suggested that it may have contained apossible souterrain as it was known locally as the 'lairof a fox'. The monument was subsequently bulldozedin the 1950s and 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

• GA056-094 Enclosure
  Description

  On NE-facing slope of a rise. An irregularly shaped enclosure (NW-SE c. 20m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall with wall-facing visible intermittently. A field wall overlies the enclosing element from S to WSW. 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

• GA056-095 Enclosure
  Description

  In rock outcrop and scrubland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 25m). The monument is now mantled with dense overgrowth, and all that is discernible is an arc of drystone wall (L c. 6m, Wth 1m) at E. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Kilgarriff.

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

Name

Kilgarriff · An Choill Gharbh

Area

1,145,460 m² (114.55 ha, 283.05 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcoona, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Ballinduff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinduff electoral division: 725 people in 241 households; 92% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Keernaun, Luimnagh West, Mausrevagh, Muckcoort, Turloughcor

Placenames

Kilgarriff 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.