Kilgerrill

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgerrill, from 3,775 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres) to 152,886 m² (15.29 ha, 37.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilgerrill 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.

• 30 Apr 2024Conditional

  for the construction of an agricultural shed to incorporate a robotic milking unit, dairy, plant & office room, straw separation area, cubicles and underground slatted soiled & slurry storage tanks, erection of a new meal bin and water storage tank and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1,230.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460479

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilgerrill.

Recorded monuments

• GA074-059001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In undulating grassland. An irregular enclosure (N-S c. 90m, E-W c. 38m) defined by a scarp (H 0.4m max.) from WSW through W to NW, and by a low degraded bank from NW through N to E. No trace survives from E through S to WSW. A field boundary overlies the bank from NW through N to NNE. A shallow external depression at W appears modern. A church (GA074-059002-) and graveyard (GA074-059002-) lie within the interior. A low rounded bank (L c. 19m) extends off the graveyard wall at NW. 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

• GA074-059002 Church
  Description

  In E half of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA074-059001-). The poorly preserved remains of a rectangular church (E-W; L c. 14.5m, Wth > 6.5m) of which only W wall survives. The remaining walls are indicated by a low grass-covered mound of foundation stones. No architectural features are visible. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 532-3) 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

• GA074-059003 Graveyard
  Description

  This irregularly shaped graveyard (c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) is associated with a church (GA074-059002-) and early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA074-059001-). The earliest burial dates to 1828 but the majority of the burials are of 20th-century date. Some graves are marked by plain unworked limestone blocks. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 February 2017

• GA074-060 House - 18th/19th century
  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 Kilgerrill.

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

At the centre of the townland of Kilgerrill, 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.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Kilgerrill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Kilgerrill · Cill Ghoirill

Area

748,110 m² (74.81 ha, 184.86 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgerrill, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Aughrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

576 people lived in 198 households in the Aughrim electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonigny, Gortnaglogh, Killure More

Placenames

Kilgerrill 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.