Killower

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killower, from 26 m² to 80,639 m² (8.06 ha, 19.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Killower 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 Jul 2025Conditional

  sought to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, greenhouse, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561044

• 6 Jun 2025N/a

  sought to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, greenhouse, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 244 sqm (H), 60 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560722

• 3 Aug 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, and treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 200sqm & Garage: 60sqm

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22937

• 30 May 2022N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, and treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22705

• 10 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a domestic garage/store along with all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212086

• 28 Apr 2021Refused

  to construct a Domestic Garage / Store along with all associated services. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 103.22msqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21692

• 16 Mar 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 236 sqm (House), 60 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20338

• 5 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works: Domestic garage/store = 50 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19501

• 13 Feb 2018Conditional

  for a change of house design from that previously granted full planning permission under Planning Ref. No. 15/289 along with all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 184.4 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18150

• 20 Nov 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 250sqm, Garage 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171665

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killower Turlough 000282

Recorded monuments

• GA028-029 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (E-W 32.5m, N-S 29.3m) defined by a drystone wall, overlain at E and W by a field wall. A gap at N appears modern. Within the interior is a square grassed-over stone structure (L/Wth 3m), possibly the remains of a house. An earthwork (GA028-030----) lies c. 100m to NW. 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

• GA028-029001 House - indeterminate date
  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.

• GA028-030 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). All that is visible are faint traces of a much-denuded and overgrown circular platform (D c. 35m, H 1.5m). 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

• GA029-111001 Church
  Description

  On a rise in pastureland; it stands within a roughly rectangular graveyard. According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 393), this was an 'early mon[astery]; erenagh eleventh century'. What is visible is a poorly preserved rectangular church (E-W; L 19, Wth 5m). Apart from W gable which contains the base of a window, only the grassed-over foundation lines of N, E and S walls survive. Within the interior lie two cut-stone fragments, including an arch stone and part of a window jamb. 'Labbapatrick' (GA029-111003-) lies c. 6m to NE. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 203; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 448) 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

• GA029-111002 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.

• GA029-111003 Monumental structure
  Description

  Some 6m NE of a church (GA029-111001-). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map by a tiny open circle and described in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 204) as a 'large and very ancient ash tree, at the foot of which there is an irregular circle of stones called Leabaidh Phadruig'. What is visible is a flat-topped oval mound (L 7.5m, Wth 5m, H 1.5m) defined by a modern-looking drystone revetment. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 448) 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Killower, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Killower · Cill Leabhair

Area

1,272,328 m² (127.23 ha, 314.4 acres)

Civil parish

Killower, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Belclare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

792 people lived in 279 households in the Belclare electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrumkilla, Boadaun, Cloonmore, Johnstown, Treanbaun, Tulrush

Placenames

Killower 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.