Killinny East
Townland in the civil parish of Killinny, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway; in Irish Cill Eithne Thoir
- Area
- 108.2 ha
- 267 acres
- Land parcels
- 114
- registered freehold, median 5,877 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
114 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killinny East, from 271 m² to 53,142 m² (5.31 ha, 13.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Killinny East 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 Sept 2023Conditional
to construct a dwellinghouse, garage & new wastewater treatment & all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361128
19 Mar 2020Conditional
for (1) the construction of an agricultural livestock shed (2) a meal silo and (3) to extend an existing shed to form a roofed manure pit. Gross floor space of proposed works: 288.91 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 20375
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Caherglassaun Turlough SAC 000238
- Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926
Recorded monuments
- GA122-100 Ringfort - cashel
Description
In low-lying flat farmland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m); on the 1922 edition only the SE sector is shown. On inspection in September 1982 no visible surface trace was visible. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 March 2019
- GA122-101002 Castle - unclassified
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.
- GA122-101003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
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.
- GA122-101004 Church
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.
- GA122-101005 Graveyard
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.
- GA122-101006 Cross
Description
Within the graveyard (GA122-101005-) associated with Killinny Church (GA122-101004-). This cruciform limestone slab (H 0.6m; arm span 0.52m; Wth of shaft 0.38m; T 0.08m) bears a hollowed-out almost equal-armed cross with expanded terminals and a central boss in false relief on its E face. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 February
- GA122-101007 Cross
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.
- GA122-102 Souterrain
Description
Some 70m to the SW of a church (GA122-101004-). Indicated and named 'Cave' in Roman script on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. According to local information, this possible souterrain was discovered during farm-building operations. On inspection no visible surface trace survived. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 October 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killinny East.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_630 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Killinny East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Killinny East · Cill Eithne Thoir
- Area
- 1,081,617 m² (108.16 ha, 267.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killinny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kiltartan
- Electoral division
- Killinny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killinny electoral division: 492 people in 169 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybuck North, Killinny West, Roo, Shigaunagh
- Placenames
- Killinny East 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.