Killomoran
Killomoran is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacduagh, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Cill Ó Móráin.
- Area
- 108.4 ha
- 268 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 4,084 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killomoran, from 224 m² to 156,403 m² (15.64 ha, 38.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Killomoran 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
22 Dec 2020Conditional
for relocation and upgrade of existing septic tank and percolation area to effluent treatment system and sand polishing filter
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202018
24 Jul 2019Conditional
for a dwelling house, garage / store, fuel store, septic tank, percolation area, entrance & associated works on revised site boundaries (previously granted under planning ref 02/2636). Gross floor space of work to be retained: House = 230.6 sqm, Garage/store = 127.75 sqm, fuel store = 30.80 sqm
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191136
29 Jun 2018Conditional
a) for revised site boundaries and b) full permission for an effluent treatment system, percolation area and associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18915
4 Apr 2018N/a
of existing dwelling house, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site services previously granted under Planning Ref. No. 03/6160 on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained 98.5 sqm.
Retention · Galway County Council, 18401
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Caherglassaun Turlough 000238
Recorded monuments
- GA122-103 Church
Description
In undulating pastureland, overlooking Caherglassaun Lough to the N. This rectangular nave (int. dims. 6m E-W; 4.2m N-S; wall T 0.68m) and chancel (3.35 E-W; 2.25 N-S) church is poorly preserved and densely overgrown. Both gables and the N side-wall survive but S side-wall has collapsed. The only architectural feature visible is a simple round-headed window in the E gable. (Fahey 1893,17) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 March 2020
- GA122-143 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 Killomoran.
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 Killomoran, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_687 (ZIP).
- 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 Killomoran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Killomoran · Cill Ó Móráin
- Area
- 1,083,800 m² (108.38 ha, 267.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacduagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kiltartan
- Electoral division
- Cahermore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 620 people lived in 198 households in the Cahermore electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynastaig, Caherglassaun, Cahermore, Cappanapisha North, Cappavarna, Faunin, Shigaunagh
- Placenames
- Killomoran 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.