Killamanagh
Killamanagh is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghpatrick, barony of Clare, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Cill na Manach.
- Area
- 50.4 ha
- 124 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 5,150 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killamanagh, from 304 m² to 110,782 m² (11.08 ha, 27.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Killamanagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Oct 2025Conditional
for the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor between structure no. 81 and 161; the replacement of angle masts in-situ at 3no. locations, with similar structures; the painting of a tower at 1no. location; the replacement of polesets at 54no. locations, with similar structures. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16 m to 23 m along the circuit. The majority of the height increases will be between 0.1 m and 2.0 m (at 40no. structures), with 13no. structure replacements resulting in no change in height. Structure no. 109 will increase in height by 3.0 m; the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at all structures from structure no. 81 to 160; the replacement of stay wire / anchors and associated fittings at 3no. locations; the replacement of crossarms at 59no. locations; the installation of fibre wrap on phase conductor between structure no. 1 and structure no. 161; all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including the removal and reinstatement of 220m of hedgerow / field boundary (estimated using Táilte Éireann data), vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts / piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing; and other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e., guard poles) and a temporary watercourse crossing to access structure no. 160. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g., national roads, rivers, etc. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561471
8 Jul 2019Conditional
for the following: Construction of roof over roofless cubicles previously granted in planning application REF: 18/1322 and all other associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1095 sqm (G)
Permission · Galway County Council, 191046
22 Nov 2018Conditional
to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: (House) 260 sqm, (Garage) 60 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181667
20 Sept 2018Conditional
for the following: (A) Construction of a milking parlour, dairy, ancillary rooms, livestock waiting yard, handling facilities and underground slatted channel, (B)Construction of an agricultural cubicle facility and straw bedded shed (C) Construction of an underground geomembrane lined slurry lagoon (D) Construction of a new farmyard entrance and access roadway (E) Construction of a livestock underpass and effluent holding tank and all other associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works - 675sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 181322
7 Sept 2017Conditional
to retain and complete dwelling house as constructed. Gross floor space of work to be retained 232sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171338
5 Sept 2017Refused
for a dwellinghouse, septic tank and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works 200sqm.
Outline permission · Galway County Council, 171319
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killamanagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killamanagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killamanagh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Killamanagh, about 1 in 5 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 Killamanagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Killamanagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Killamanagh · Cill na Manach
- Area
- 503,773 m² (50.38 ha, 124.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghpatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Donaghpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 584 people lived in 210 households in the Donaghpatrick electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abbeytown, Ballinvoher, Beagh Beg, Bellanagarraun, Bunnasillagh
- Placenames
- Killamanagh 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.