# Killaghaun, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymacward, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Cilleachán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 839,109 m² (83.91 ha, 207.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,626 m² (2.86 ha, 7.07 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymacward, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballymacward.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Mounthazel, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 544 people lived in 194 households in the Mounthazel electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20547 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62620 - Centre: latitude 53.415067, longitude -8.498302 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killaghaun, from 13 m² to 122,994 m² (12.3 ha, 30.39 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2071510: 122,994 m² (12.3 ha, 30.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071510.md - Parcel 2071509: 88,205 m² (8.82 ha, 21.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071509.md - Parcel 2024087: 74,134 m² (7.41 ha, 18.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2024087.md - Parcel 2024082: 64,675 m² (6.47 ha, 15.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2024082.md - Parcel 2071508: 54,880 m² (5.49 ha, 13.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071508.md - Parcel 2071505: 49,169 m² (4.92 ha, 12.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071505.md - Parcel 2071503: 46,650 m² (4.66 ha, 11.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071503.md - Parcel 2071507: 44,372 m² (4.44 ha, 10.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071507.md - Parcel 2071511: 43,526 m² (4.35 ha, 10.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071511.md - Parcel 2024092: 39,318 m² (3.93 ha, 9.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2024092.md - Parcel 4644194: 36,147 m² (3.61 ha, 8.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4644194.md - Parcel 2071502: 32,699 m² (3.27 ha, 8.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071502.md - Parcel 2024084: 32,336 m² (3.23 ha, 7.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2024084.md - Parcel 2071506: 29,982 m² (3 ha, 7.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071506.md - Parcel 2071504: 27,270 m² (2.73 ha, 6.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071504.md - Parcel 2024090: 26,698 m² (2.67 ha, 6.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2024090.md - Parcel 2071501: 5,950 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071501.md - Parcel 4618043: 3,670 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4618043.md - Parcel 2071513: 3,071 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071513.md - Parcel 2071512: 2,153 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071512.md - Parcel 2071515: 2,124 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071515.md - Parcel 2024083: 2,104 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2024083.md - Parcel 2024086: 2,100 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2024086.md - Parcel 2024088: 1,685 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2024088.md - Parcel 2024085: 1,523 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2024085.md - Parcel 2024089: 556 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2024089.md - Parcel 2071514: 187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071514.md - Parcel 2024091: 13 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2024091.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Killaghaun 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 9 Jul 2026, Galway County Council 2661164: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for construction of proposed dwelling house, domestic garage/shed, proprietary treatment system & percolation area and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661164/0 - 3 Jan 2020, Galway County Council 204: Conditional. Permission. to construct slatted shed to include concrete apron and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Shed = 93.44 sqm, Concrete apron = 125.00 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/204/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killaghaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA060-114: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA060-114----. On a W-facing slope in grassland. Roughly subrectangular graveyard (E-W; L c. 55m, Wth c. 5m) enclosed by a stone wall with an entrance at N. Though most of the graves are modern, the name of the graveyard and the td. suggest that this site may be an ancient one. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 248) 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 - GA060-115: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA060-115----. On a NE-facing slope. Well- preserved oval rath (E-W 47.5m, N-S 41m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank is present from SW through W to NE. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 3m) at E. 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 - GA060-116: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA060-116----. On a W-facing hillslope. Faint traces of a circular enclosure (D 34m) defined by a wide and very shallow fosse. 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 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 Killaghaun. ## 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 Killaghaun, about 1 in 5 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 low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killaghaun. - 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/killaghaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/killaghaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/killaghaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Killaghaun 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) - Ashfield: https://everytownland.com/galway/ashfield-60138.md - Esker: https://everytownland.com/galway/esker-61954.md - Lisheen: https://everytownland.com/galway/lisheen-63079.md - Lisloughlin: https://everytownland.com/galway/lisloughlin.md - Moneen: https://everytownland.com/galway/moneen-63323.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. --- 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/killaghaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/killaghaun