Killoscobe

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killoscobe, from 107 m² to 75,271 m² (7.53 ha, 18.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Killoscobe 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.

• 4 Sept 2024Conditional

  to install a new wastewater treatment plant & polishing filter, to decommission old septic tank and soak pit, install a mobile home for a temporary period while dwelling house is being renovated and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461164

• 23 Jul 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a part two storey, part single storey dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 289.38 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201007

• 22 May 2020N/a

  Permission for the construction of a part two storey, part single storey dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 289.38 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20626

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 Killoscobe.

Recorded monuments

• GA059-045 Church
  Description

  At a crossroads in gently undulating farmland; it is situated in a rectangular graveyard which is skirted by the td. boundary. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a roofed building labelled 'Church', but evidently demolished by the time of 3rd ed. (1932) when the words 'Site of' are appended. What survives is the outline of a rectangular building (E-W; L 16.4m, Wth 6.7m) defined by modern-looking drystone walls (H 1.5m max.). Only E half of S wall is visible and there is a gap in N wall. No architectural features survive. A holy well (GA059-023----) lay 30m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA059-045001 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.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Killoscobe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Killoscobe · Cill Ó Scóba

Area

441,314 m² (44.13 ha, 109.05 acres)

Civil parish

Killoscobe, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Mount Bellew, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mount Bellew electoral division: 1,972 people in 701 households; 80% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghnagrosheen, Carrownacregg East, Corgerry Oughter, Eskerroe, Fairhill, Menlough Eighter

Placenames

Killoscobe 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.