# Killure Castle, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilgerrill, barony of Clonmacnowen, Co. Galway; in Irish Cill Iúir an Chaisleáin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,386,166 m² (238.62 ha, 589.63 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,808 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilgerrill, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilgerrill.md
- Barony: Clonmacnowen
- Electoral division: Killure, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17914
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62697
- Centre: latitude 53.357264, longitude -8.286656 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killure Castle, from 119 m² to 120,380 m² (12.04 ha, 29.75 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2071203: 120,380 m² (12.04 ha, 29.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071203.md
- Parcel 2071219: 83,209 m² (8.32 ha, 20.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071219.md
- Parcel 2071221: 75,675 m² (7.57 ha, 18.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071221.md
- Parcel 2023821: 69,981 m² (7 ha, 17.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023821.md
- Parcel 2023822: 67,528 m² (6.75 ha, 16.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023822.md
- Parcel 2071195: 65,528 m² (6.55 ha, 16.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071195.md
- Parcel 2023812: 63,239 m² (6.32 ha, 15.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023812.md
- Parcel 2023807: 61,298 m² (6.13 ha, 15.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023807.md
- Parcel 2023814: 58,217 m² (5.82 ha, 14.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023814.md
- Parcel 2023808: 52,875 m² (5.29 ha, 13.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023808.md
- Parcel 2071218: 50,719 m² (5.07 ha, 12.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071218.md
- Parcel 2071201: 48,263 m² (4.83 ha, 11.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071201.md
- Parcel 2071200: 46,611 m² (4.66 ha, 11.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071200.md
- Parcel 2023815: 40,086 m² (4.01 ha, 9.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023815.md
- Parcel 2071205: 38,916 m² (3.89 ha, 9.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071205.md
- Parcel 2071198: 36,329 m² (3.63 ha, 8.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071198.md
- Parcel 2069325: 33,830 m² (3.38 ha, 8.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2069325.md
- Parcel 2023811: 28,286 m² (2.83 ha, 6.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023811.md
- Parcel 2069514: 28,058 m² (2.81 ha, 6.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2069514.md
- Parcel 2023810: 27,849 m² (2.78 ha, 6.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023810.md
- Parcel 2071212: 23,034 m² (2.3 ha, 5.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071212.md
- Parcel 2071220: 20,681 m² (2.07 ha, 5.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071220.md
- Parcel 2071217: 20,532 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071217.md
- Parcel 2023823: 20,416 m² (2.04 ha, 5.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023823.md
- Parcel 2071206: 18,795 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071206.md
- Parcel 2023809: 16,082 m² (1.61 ha, 3.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023809.md
- Parcel 2023820: 15,397 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023820.md
- Parcel 2071210: 14,672 m² (1.47 ha, 3.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071210.md
- Parcel 2071213: 12,399 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071213.md
- Parcel 5355568: 12,240 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5355568.md
- Parcel 2071196: 11,633 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071196.md
- Parcel 2023803: 10,863 m² (1.09 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023803.md
- Parcel 2071209: 10,752 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071209.md
- Parcel 2071197: 9,445 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071197.md
- Parcel 2023804: 9,174 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023804.md
- Parcel 2023805: 8,623 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023805.md
- Parcel 2022284: 8,166 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2022284.md
- Parcel 2023819: 7,584 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023819.md
- Parcel 5015156: 7,191 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5015156.md
- Parcel 2022285: 6,960 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2022285.md
- Parcel 2023816: 6,896 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023816.md
- Parcel 2069556: 6,513 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2069556.md
- Parcel 5355571: 6,095 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5355571.md
- Parcel 2023818: 5,171 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023818.md
- Parcel 2023817: 4,819 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023817.md
- Parcel 2071216: 4,103 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071216.md
- Parcel 2023806: 3,895 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023806.md
- Parcel 2071215: 3,838 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071215.md
- Parcel 2071214: 3,584 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071214.md
- Parcel 2071208: 2,669 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071208.md
- Parcel 5355558: 2,584 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5355558.md
- Parcel 2071202: 2,533 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071202.md
- Parcel 2071211: 2,294 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071211.md
- Parcel 2069555: 2,112 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2069555.md
- Parcel 5015165: 2,050 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5015165.md
- Parcel 3487978: 1,991 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3487978.md
- Parcel 3487816: 1,979 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3487816.md
- Parcel 4656233: 1,968 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4656233.md
- Parcel 5355542: 1,797 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5355542.md
- Parcel 2023813: 1,789 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023813.md
- Parcel 2071204: 1,228 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071204.md
- Parcel 2071207: 1,089 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071207.md
- Parcel 2071199: 1,049 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071199.md
- Parcel 5015163: 119 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5015163.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 27 Jan 2025, Galway County Council 2560074: Conditional. Retention. of extensions and all associated site work. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560074/0
- 20 Jan 2023, Galway County Council 2314: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of alterations to previously granted dwelling (planning reference 1777). Gross floor space of works to be retained 11.20sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2314/0
- 15 Dec 2020, Galway County Council 201932: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201932/0
- 18 Apr 2017, Galway County Council 17515: Conditional. Permission. 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.). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17515/0
- 27 Jan 2017, Galway County Council 1777: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/1777/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Natural Heritage Area: Killure Bog NHA, site code 001283, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/001283

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA074-070: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA074-070----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA074-071----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1276.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/killure-castle.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/killure-castle.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/killure-castle.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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: https://everytownland.com/galway.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Annaghbeg: https://everytownland.com/galway/annaghbeg-60074.md
- Caltraghlea: https://everytownland.com/galway/caltraghlea.md
- Creggaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/creggaun-61574.md
- Kilcloony: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilcloony-62569.md
- Killure Beg: https://everytownland.com/galway/killure-beg.md
- Killure More: https://everytownland.com/galway/killure-more.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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