Kylemore

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kylemore, from 6,902 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres) to 750,843 m² (75.08 ha, 185.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 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.

• 15 Dec 2025Conditional

  is being sought for a dwelling house, garage & private wastewater treatment system with all associated works & ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561845

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Gortnandarragh Limestone Pavement SAC 001271
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gortnandarragh Limestone Pavement 001271

Recorded monuments

• GA055-048 Enclosure
  Description

  In cleared land, formerly karstic scrubland. Indicated on 1st and 3rd eds (1922) as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface traces were found. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kylemore · An Choill Mhór

Area

1,837,757 m² (183.78 ha, 454.12 acres)

Civil parish

Killannin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Wormhole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Wormhole electoral division: 2,602 people in 844 households; 87% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Callownamuck, Carrowmoreknock, Corranellistrum, Garrynagry, Gortnahoon, Pollagh, Srue

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.