Killinny West
Townland in the civil parish of Killinny, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway; in Irish Cill Eithne Thiar
- Area
- 215.9 ha
- 533 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 5,266 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killinny West, from 29 m² to 354,648 m² (35.46 ha, 87.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 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 West 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
14 Aug 2026N/a
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661400
12 Sept 2025Conditional
alterations and extensions to an existing dwellinghouse and retention for shed
Retention · Galway County Council, 2561316
16 Dec 2021Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 207.87 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212391
20 Dec 2017Conditional
to construct extension to existing dwellinghouse with all associated services and siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works 68.5sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171835
16 Feb 2017Conditional
(1) The construction of a domestic garage and (2) the removal of an enurement clause for a dwelling granted under 01/176. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 39.8 sqm.)
Permission · Galway County Council, 17193
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: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killinny West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killinny West.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- 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 West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Killinny West · Cill Eithne Thiar
- Area
- 2,158,565 m² (215.86 ha, 533.39 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, Ballybuck South, Cappacasheen, Killinny East, Normangrove, Roo
- Placenames
- Killinny West 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.