Kylemore

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kylemore, from 62 m² to 595,599 m² (59.56 ha, 147.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Kylemore 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.

• 21 Sept 2017Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed, cubicle shed, milking facilities & associated concrete work. Gross floor space of proposed work 1181sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171394

• 13 Jul 2017N/a

  to construct a slatted shed, cubicle shed, milking facilities & associated concrete work. Gross floor space of proposed works: 598.15sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171034

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
• Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222

Recorded monuments

• GA100-111 Building
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA100-112 Factory
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA100-113 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA100-114 Canal
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA100-177 Road - class 2 togher
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA100-178 Structure - peatland
  Description

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Architectural heritage

• Kylemore Bridge, bridge, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone canal bridge, built c.1828, formerly carrying road over Ballinasloe branch of Grand Canal, now disused. Segmental arch with ashlar soffit and tooled voussoirs. Splayed parapet walls, rubble stone to road elevation, dressed snecked stone to canal elevation, with cut-stone curved string course and coping. Tapered square-profile terminating piers. Dressed snecked stone walls. Dressed and cut-stone embankments to canal.

• Kylemore National School, school, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay single-storey former school, built c.1860, having advanced entrance to west elevation, and three-bay two-storey house attached to north end of west elevation. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone stepped copings and carved finials, with gabled pinnacles to edges of gables. Recent chimneystack to front (north) gable. Painted rendered walls, with unpainted rendered south gable wall, with some exposed rubble stone. Trefoil window openings to gables, having cut-stone surrounds. Round-headed window openings, blocked to gables, with chamfered limestone surrounds and cut-stone sills to gables and east elevation, with cut-stone corbels to that in north gable, and with replacement windows to long elevations. Square-headed opening to east elevation, partly blocked, flanked by rendered buttresses with cut limestone dressings. Square-headed door opening with recent timber battened door. House has pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, and some cast-iron rainwater goods, painted rendered walls with cut-stone plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and replacement windows. Square-headed door opening with chamfered limestone surround and replacement uPVC door. Cut limestone piers and rubble stone boundary walls to east boundary, recent rendered piers and boundary walls to north boundary.

• Canal (section of), 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former canal, opened 1828, closed 1961, now partly in use as industrial railway for Bord na Móna peat extraction. Some coursed cut limestone embankments remaining, with remains of timber lock gates. Canal towpath to either side. Steel narrow gauge railway to bed.

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 Kylemore, about 1 in 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kylemore.

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

Name

Kylemore · An Choill Mhór

Area

6,750,746 m² (675.07 ha, 1,668.15 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Kylemore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

146 people lived in 59 households in the Kylemore electoral division. 98% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghcorrib, Ballyhoose, Caltragh, Coolcarta West, Creggan (Co. Roscommon), Lismanny, Oghil Beg, Oghil More, Sycamorehill

Placenames

Kylemore 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.