Killarriv
Killarriv is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltullagh, barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Cill Arbha.
- Area
- 158.1 ha
- 391 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 10,290 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killarriv, from 6 m² to 163,782 m² (16.38 ha, 40.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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 Killarriv 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
20 Feb 2025Refused
for a partially constructed dog kennel building, foundation slab for proposed horse stables, walled in yard space, hardcore access and circulation areas. Permission is also sought to complete construction works to dog kennel and horse stable buildings. Gross floor space of proposed works: 108.3 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 51.27 sqm
Retention · Galway County Council, 2526
20 Sept 2024Conditional
for change of plans of dwelling house/extension granted under Planning ref. no. 23/61255 to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 50.14 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24275
19 Oct 2023Conditional
for construction of an extension to dwellinghouse, new wastewater treatment system & all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361255
4 Dec 2020Conditional
to demolish single storey extension at the rear, to build a two storey extension to the rear and single storey extension to the front, minor internal and external alterations and retain existing shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 29.3 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 52.9 sqm (shed). Gross floor space of any demolition: 8 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201844
31 Oct 2018Conditional
for construction of a new dwelling house, along with an on-site sewage treatment system, domestic garage and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works (Dwelling) 223 sqm. (Garage) 66 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181546
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 Killarriv.
Recorded monuments
- GA097-108 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in gently undulating grassland. Circular rath (diam. 33m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank survive from E through S to NNE. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 3m) at SE. Field walls cut through the monument at E and W. Two hollows in the N sector of the interior may mark the site of a possible souterrain (GA097-108001-). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018
- GA097-108001 Souterrain
Description
Within the N sector of the interior of a rath (GA097-108001-). Two hollows, both aligned on the same E-W axis, may mark the site of a souterrain though no stonework is visible. The larger hollow to the W is 15m long, 4m wide and 1.5m deep, while that to the E is 6m long; 4m wide and 1m deep. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018
- GA097-163 Children's burial ground
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killarriv.
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 Killarriv, 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 Killarriv.
- 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 Killarriv with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Killarriv · Cill Arbha
- Area
- 1,581,212 m² (158.12 ha, 390.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltullagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athenry
- Electoral division
- Kiltullagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 827 people lived in 264 households in the Kiltullagh electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynahown, Carrowkeel, Clashaganny, Clogharevaun, Knockatogher, Raford
- Placenames
- Killarriv 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.