# Killafeen, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilbeacanty, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway; in Irish Cille Fian.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 693,632 m² (69.36 ha, 171.4 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,570 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilbeacanty, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilbeacanty.md
- Barony: Kiltartan
- Electoral division: Kilbeacanty, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19363
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62617
- Centre: latitude 53.026688, longitude -8.770495 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killafeen, from 197 m² to 130,577 m² (13.06 ha, 32.27 acres); 2 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2056374: 130,577 m² (13.06 ha, 32.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2056374.md
- Parcel 6073055: 127,703 m² (12.77 ha, 31.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6073055.md
- Parcel 2106163: 96,901 m² (9.69 ha, 23.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2106163.md
- Parcel 2106164: 82,355 m² (8.24 ha, 20.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2106164.md
- Parcel 4633163: 81,348 m² (8.13 ha, 20.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4633163.md
- Parcel 2106165: 74,811 m² (7.48 ha, 18.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2106165.md
- Parcel 1940125: 17,745 m² (1.77 ha, 4.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1940125.md
- Parcel 2106161: 14,328 m² (1.43 ha, 3.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2106161.md
- Parcel 2106160: 9,570 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2106160.md
- Parcel 2747631: 8,324 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2747631.md
- Parcel 2056373: 6,845 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2056373.md
- Parcel 2056375: 6,341 m² (0.63 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2056375.md
- Parcel 2106162: 5,055 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2106162.md
- Parcel 6222565: 3,973 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6222565.md
- Parcel 2056372: 244 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2056372.md
- Parcel 4633145: 241 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4633145.md
- Parcel 4921395: 197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4921395.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 26 Jul 2024, Galway County Council 2460956: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460956/0
- 5 Jul 2018, Galway County Council 18928: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18928/0
- 28 Aug 2017, Galway County Council 171290: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171290/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Cutra SAC, site code 000299, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000299
- Special Protection Area: Lough Cutra SPA, site code 004056, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004056
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA, site code 004168, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004168
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Cutra, site code 000299

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA129-020: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA129-020----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/killafeen.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/killafeen.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/killafeen.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Killafeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyturin: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyturin.md
- Gortacarnaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortacarnaun-62215.md
- Pollagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollagh-63556.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/killafeen
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