Kinmona North
Townland in the civil parish of Ardrahan, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Cionn Mhóna Thuaidh
- Area
- 29.5 ha
- 73 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 27,910 m² (2.79 ha, 6.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kinmona North, from 830 m² to 98,090 m² (9.81 ha, 24.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Kinmona North 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
19 Jul 2018Unconditional
to demolish an existing dwellinghouse, to decomission and remove the existing septic tank and percolation area and to reinstate the driveways and house location to a grassed area (demolition 189sqm). Previous Planning Ref. No. 13/427.
Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 181030
1 Jun 2017Unconditional
for domestic dwelling, septic tank and percolation area with all associated site works (gross floor space 354sqm).Previous Planning Ref. 11/1730
Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 17774
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kinmona North.
Recorded monuments
- GA114-104 Children's burial ground
Description
In level pastureland. This children's burial ground consists of a raised semicircular area (20m E-W; 11m N-S) which abuts the E side of a NNE-SSW running townland boundary. Several trees are growing on it. A number of small headstones protrude from the sod cover and one large slab-lined grave is visible. (McCaffrey 1952, 283, no. 69) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 September 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kinmona North.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_836 (ZIP).
- 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 Kinmona North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Kinmona North · Cionn Mhóna Thuaidh
- Area
- 294,862 m² (29.49 ha, 72.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardrahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Skehanagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Skehanagh electoral division: 536 people in 185 households; 86% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caheratrim, Cockstown West, Kinmona South, Rahaly, Tullira
- Placenames
- Kinmona North 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.