Kill

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kill, from 591 m² to 162,812 m² (16.28 ha, 40.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Kill 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.

• 15 Nov 2023Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 232.20 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361361

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 Kill.

Recorded monuments

• GA118-051 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused quarry. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 August 2015

• GA118-053 Quarry
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1946 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 August 2014

• GA118-054 Quarry
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1946 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 August 2014

• GA118-055 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused quarry. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 August 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kill, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kill · An Choill

Area

1,323,004 m² (132.3 ha, 326.92 acres)

Civil parish

Tiranascragh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Tiranascragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

184 people lived in 65 households in the Tiranascragh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlug, Ballycrossaun, Deerpark, Gortadullisk, Knavagh, Muingbaun

Placenames

Kill 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.