Killola

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killola, from 4 m² to 237,872 m² (23.79 ha, 58.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Killola 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.

• 30 Aug 2026N/a

  permission to permitted development under Plan Ref 99/1293 for the following: (i) first-floor window on the south west-elevation; (ii) first-floor window on the north east-elevation; (iii) first-floor window plus roof window on the south-east elevation; (iv) roof window and chimney stack on the north-west roof slope; (vi) conversion of the existing attic level to habitable use resulting in an increase in the floor area of the dwelling; (vii) minor alterations to the size and positioning of the existing ground-floor window openings with no increase in the number of windows, and (viii) repositioning of the door to the rear of the dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661479

• 20 Sept 2024Conditional

  for alterations to dwelling house as constructed from that previously permitted under pl. ref. no. 05/2321 with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 3.26 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461242

• 31 Mar 2022Conditional

  for a dwelling house, domestic garage, any change to site boundaries, septic tank and all associated services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 182 sqm (house) & 44 sqm (garage)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22423

• 19 Jan 2022Conditional

  of dwelling house as constructed on revised site boundaries with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of works to be retained 319 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260017

• 15 Apr 2021Conditional

  of (a) approved dwelling house, effluent treatment plant, percolation area and all ancillary site services on revised site boundaries (Planning ref. Nos 03/2696 & 01/2538 refer). (b) retention of domestic garage (c) permission to construct a side and rear extension and alterations to existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 28.7 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 240.5 sqm House & Garage

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21599

• 4 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct a single storey extension to side of dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 18 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21296

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  of existing dwelling house, domestic garage/shed, effluent treatment system & percolation area and all associated services on revised boundaries to that previously approved under planning reference 01/5242, 06/217 & 06/1340. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 328.60 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202027

• 1 Jun 2018Conditional

  for garage/shed as constructed with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 166.6sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18751

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killola.

Recorded monuments

• GA054-039001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On a low hillock. An overgrown oval enclosure (N-S c. 78m, E-W 65m), impossible to accurately survey owing to dense growth. It contains a CBG (GA054-039002-) in E sector. Its size, presence of CBG, townland name and local tradition of penal mass suggest that it was an E. Chr. ecclesiastical settlement. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA054-039002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In E part of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA054-039001-). Indicated on 2nd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1899) as an unenclosed roughly D-shaped area (L/Wth c. 20m). What survives is a completely overgrown low platform within which numerous small upright stones are visible, including a lintelled grave at W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killola.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Killola, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killola.

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.

• Killola, Rosscahill9 sales

Name

Killola · Cill Ola

Area

787,302 m² (78.73 ha, 194.55 acres)

Civil parish

Killannin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Wormhole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,602 people lived in 844 households in the Wormhole electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drimnahoon, Fahy, Gortacarnaun, Killaguile, Laghtgannon, Porridgetown West

Placenames

Killola 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.