Kiltrasna
Townland in the civil parish of Killeany, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Coill Trasna
- Area
- 119.8 ha
- 296 acres
- Land parcels
- 85
- registered freehold, median 3,228 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kiltrasna, from 77 m² to 117,583 m² (11.76 ha, 29.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kiltrasna 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Oct 2025Conditional
to construct a serviced dwelling house, garage and effluent treatment system. Permission is also sought to relocate relevant front boundaries walls so that the required sight lines can be obtained
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561554
5 May 2022Conditional
to construct a fully service dwelling house, a treatment plant system plus a garage. Also permission is being sought to relocate the front boundary wall so to obtain the required sight distances. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 222sqm, Garage: 60sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22583
29 Jul 2021Conditional
to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and treatment plant system, and to relocate relevant front boundaries walls so that the required sight lines can be obtained. Gross floor space of proposed works: 223 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211387
11 Mar 2021Conditional
and complete the alterations to the dwelling house granted under planning permission 20/1246. Permission is also sought to change the site layout from that granted under the above planning permission. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 143 sqm - Proposed House
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21346
3 Sept 2020Conditional
for a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and a treatment plant system. Permission is also sought to relocate relevant front boundaries walls so that the required sight lines can be obtained. Gross floor space of proposed works: 110sqm (house) + 60sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201246
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
- Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kiltrasna.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having attic dormer, and with twentieth-century single-storey flat-roof extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with exposed scollopwork and decorative knotting, lime rendered stone copings, and one rendered chimneystack. Lime-rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and replacement uPVC door. Set perpendicular to road with twentieth-century single-storey outbuilding to rear with pitched thatched roof, and segmental-arch pedestrian way alongside gable. Field stone boundary wall to road with enclosed garden to north and west with two wells in garden.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kiltrasna.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kiltrasna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Kiltrasna · Coill Trasna
- Area
- 1,197,618 m² (119.76 ha, 295.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeany, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Killeany, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killeany electoral division: 617 people in 218 households; 85% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Keekill, Lisheennageeha, Muckcoort
- Placenames
- Kiltrasna 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.