Killure Castle

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killure Castle, from 119 m² to 120,380 m² (12.04 ha, 29.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Killure Castle 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.

• 27 Jan 2025Conditional

  of extensions and all associated site work

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560074

• 20 Jan 2023Conditional

  of alterations to previously granted dwelling (planning reference 1777). Gross floor space of works to be retained 11.20sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2314

• 15 Dec 2020N/a

  to demolish part of an existing storage shed, to erect an extension to our dwelling house and to construct all ancillary site works to facilitate same. Gross floor space of proposed works: 71.6 msq

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201932

• 18 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct slatted/loose housing shed with calf creep, calving pens, cattle race and crush to include concrete aprons and all associated works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: Shed = 363.92 sqm., concrete aprons = 498.15 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17515

• 27 Jan 2017Conditional

  (a) change of house plan previously granted under Planning Ref. No. 10/1715 and 16/187 (b) Permission sought for domestic garage. (Gross floor space 201.1sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1777

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Killure Bog NHA 001283

Recorded monuments

• GA074-070 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In undulating pastureland, c. 100m S of a stream. A poorly preserved rectangular tower (L 8.8m, Wth 4.9m int.) surviving to a height of three storeys and surrounded by a bawn. The partially robbed pointed arch doorway, centrally placed in E wall, is defended by a gun loop in S jamb. It opens into a small lobby with a murder-hole above. The guardroom, with a cross loop in E wall and a circular loop in N wall, is to N and the spiral stairs to S. The 1st and 2nd floors of the tower comprise a main chamber with a subsidiary one to E. Traces of a stone vault survive above the subsidiary chamber on 2nd floor. A mural passage occurs on this floor in S wall. Windows consist of plain rectangular and round-headed slits as well as single lights with ogee heads. The line of the rectangular bawn (E-W c. 40m, N-S c. 30m) is indicated by a curving scarp edge from NE to SE and by a bank from SE 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

• GA074-071 Enclosure
  Description

  In flat grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1948) as a large circular bivallate enclosure (D c. 90m) skirted by a laneway from W to NW: a small roofed rectangular building is shown on its perimeter at WSW. The monument has been almost completely levelled as a result of field clearance. From W to N, a curving earthen field boundary may represent the last vestiges of the inner bank. Otherwise, the line of the enclosing element is indicated only by a slight rise in the field level. Tentative traces of an intervening fosse and outer bank survive from N to E and at SE, indicated by a wide shallow depression and a second low rise respectively. A low ride (E-W c. 28m) is visible within interior. 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 Killure Castle.

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 Killure Castle, about 1 in 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1276 (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.

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

Name

Killure Castle · Cill Iúir an Chaisleáin

Area

2,386,166 m² (238.62 ha, 589.63 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgerrill, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Killure, the unit of the census

Census 2022

739 people lived in 241 households in the Killure electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghbeg, Caltraghlea, Creggaun, Kilcloony, Killure Beg, Killure More

Placenames

Killure Castle 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.