Killafeen

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killafeen, from 197 m² to 130,577 m² (13.06 ha, 32.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 2 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 Killafeen 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.

• 26 Jul 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a rear extension to an existing dwelling including reconstruction of the front porch, elevation alterations and refurbishment of same. Also permission to convert the existing rear attached storage shed to habitable space into the existing dwelling, replacement of the existing septic tank with a new proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 39.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460956

• 5 Jul 2018Conditional

  for (1) demolition of a substandard dwelling house, (2) construction of dwelling house and garage, (3) upgrade of existing effluent treatment system to EPA standards and (4)all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 212.3sqm, Garage 40.75sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18928

• 28 Aug 2017Conditional

  for development that will consist of: (1) the removal of the existing extensions at the NE & SW sides the residence; (2) construction of new single storey extensions at the NE & SW sides and a 2 storey extension at the rear of the existing residence; (3) replacement of existing waste water treatment system; (4) site works including closing the exisiting site entrance at the SW corner of the site and reconstruction of the 2 other existing site entrances (gross floor space proposed 183.69sqm; demolition 27.35sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171290

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 Cutra SAC 000299
• Special Protection Area: Lough Cutra SPA 004056
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Cutra 000299

Recorded monuments

• GA129-020 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a low hill in pastureland. Described in the OS Letters as ‘a burying ground for children’ (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 629), it consists of a poorly preserved and densely overgrown D-shaped area (6.5m E-W; 5m N-S) within which a number of small set stones mark graves. A field wall defines is NW limits. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 August 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Killafeen, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Killafeen · Cille Fian

Area

693,632 m² (69.36 ha, 171.4 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeacanty, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kilbeacanty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

357 people lived in 121 households in the Kilbeacanty electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyturin, Gortacarnaun, Pollagh

Placenames

Killafeen 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.