Kilnalappa

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilnalappa, from 50 m² to 145,204 m² (14.52 ha, 35.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 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 Kilnalappa 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.

• 2 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 188.0 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201231

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 Kilnalappa.

Recorded monuments

• GA005-071 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the summit of a hill in undulating grassland. According to Neary (1914, 118, no. 35), it is known as 'Woodbed Rath'. It consists of a well-preserved circular rath (D c. 30m) defined by three earthen stone-lined banks and two intervening fosses. There is a well-defined entrance (Wth 4.5m) at NE and a prabable souterrain (GA005-071001-) in the 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

• GA005-071001 Souterrain
  Description

  In NW quadrant of a ringfort (GA005-071----). An L-shaped hollow, long axis (L 6m) running E-W, short axis (L 4m), extending from SE end and running N-S. Two displaced boulders lie at W end and 9m to S, a large limestone upright is locally believed to mark the entrance to the souterrain. (Neary 1914, 118, no. 36) 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

• GA005-072 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge in grassland overlooking the Flaskagh River to W. According to Neary (1914, 118, no. 36), it is known as 'Rabitte's Fort'. It consists of a very poorly preserved circular rath (D 38m) defined by a stone-lined bank at SE, and elsewhere by a scrap. There is souterrain (GA005-072001-) 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

• GA005-072001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA005-072----). Neary (1914, 118, no. 35) refers to 'a spoon-shaped [sic] hollow [which] appears to indicate a dug-out souterrain'. All that is visible is a rectangular hollow (L 8m, Wth 5m), running E-W, to N of centre. However, this may be the result of modern rubbish disposal as two other areas apparently dug for this purpose were noted close by. 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 Kilnalappa.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Kilnalappa.

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 Kilnalappa with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Kilnalappa · Coill na Leapa

Area

1,427,873 m² (142.79 ha, 352.84 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Toberadosh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Toberadosh electoral division: 399 people in 141 households; 94% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghdorragha, Ballintava, Carrownaseer North, Drumbane, Flaskagh Beg, Shrule

Placenames

Kilnalappa 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.