Kilkerrin

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilkerrin, from 51 m² to 122,163 m² (12.22 ha, 30.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Kilkerrin 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.

• 5 Aug 2025Conditional

  of extension to existing dwelling house, retain domestic garage & fuel store, construct extension to dwelling house & install new wastewater treatment system and associated siteworks

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561074

• 11 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 181.06 sqm (house) & 53.94 sqm (house)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212099

• 21 Mar 2019Conditional

  of dwelling house with new sewer connection, domestic general purpose storage garage, fuel store and all associated site works on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 399.71 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19393

• 25 Jun 2018Conditional

  for a fully serviced dwellinghouse, garage and fuel store and all ancillary site works. Gross (house) 235 sqm. (garage) 50 sqm. (fuel store) 25 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18862

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 Kilkerrin.

Recorded monuments

• GA031-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 38m) defined by a scarp and external fosse, with traces of a possible outer bank from N to E. A house and garden disturb the fosse at S, and a laneway encircles it from SW through W to 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

• GA031-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Circular ringfort (D 51m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone from N through E to SE, and elsewhere by a scarp. The monument is cut at N and S by a field bank. 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

• GA031-044 Church
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating grassland: it stands in SW part of a large rectangular graveyard. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 229), no 'ruins of the parochial church, if there was ever a very old one primarily ... are ... at present observable'. However, they note the presence of a 'Protestant church, some time ago deserted, ... [which] threatens ruin'. This is undoubtedly the structure marked on 1st and later eds. of OS 6-inch map as being 'in Ruins'. According to Melvin (c. 1971, 11), this church 'was erected in 1784' and is described in 1837 as 'about to be re-built'. The visible remains comprise a ruinous rectangular church (E-W; L 13.8m, Wth 7.7m ext.) of which N and S side-walls and E gable still stand. The main architectural features consist of large pointed arch windows, two in each of the side-walls and one centrally placed in E gable. Roads (GA031-044002-) are associated. (CUCAP AYQ 70) 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

• GA031-044001 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.

• GA031-044002 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Associated with a church (GA031-044----) and graveyard. Aerial reconnaissance in July 1969 (CUCAP AYQ 70) revealed the line of a roadway in the large pasture field to N of the graveyard. This appears as a slight linear hollow in the field surface, flanked in parts by slight banks. Though it commences at its S end as a single road, it bifurcates c. 50m N of the graveyard. The E branch runs due N, across a partially quarried hillock, terminating after c. 120m close to a modern farmhouse. The W branch follows a roughly NNW course, and can be traced for c. 150m to the edge of the pasture field. At this point, an old earthen boundary, shown on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931), may mirror its course for a further 75m. Not visited. 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 Kilkerrin.

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 Kilkerrin, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Kilkerrin, Ballinasloe8 sales

Name

Kilkerrin · Cill Choirín

Area

949,814 m² (94.98 ha, 234.7 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkerrin, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Shankill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

355 people lived in 131 households in the Shankill electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derreen Upper, Glebe, Gortnahaskany, Kilcornan, Lehinch, Scregg East, Tullaghaun

Placenames

Kilkerrin 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.