# Traskernagh, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeen, barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway; in Irish An Treascarnach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 978,968 m² (97.9 ha, 241.91 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,279 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmeen, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilmeen.md - Barony: Leitrim - Electoral division: Kilmeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 672 people lived in 233 households in the Kilmeen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20036 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 64104 - Centre: latitude 53.188328, longitude -8.505659 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Traskernagh, from 776 m² to 352,342 m² (35.23 ha, 87.07 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1927168: 352,342 m² (35.23 ha, 87.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927168.md - Parcel 1971238: 146,709 m² (14.67 ha, 36.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971238.md - Parcel 1971239: 124,960 m² (12.5 ha, 30.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971239.md - Parcel 1927166: 123,278 m² (12.33 ha, 30.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927166.md - Parcel 2479894: 64,527 m² (6.45 ha, 15.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2479894.md - Parcel 1971233: 54,137 m² (5.41 ha, 13.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971233.md - Parcel 1927167: 15,505 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927167.md - Parcel 1927160: 15,169 m² (1.52 ha, 3.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927160.md - Parcel 4641286: 10,900 m² (1.09 ha, 2.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4641286.md - Parcel 2422438: 9,590 m² (0.96 ha, 2.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2422438.md - Parcel 4639833: 5,498 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4639833.md - Parcel 4641544: 5,395 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4641544.md - Parcel 1971234: 4,960 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971234.md - Parcel 1927159: 4,350 m² (0.44 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927159.md - Parcel 4641567: 4,208 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4641567.md - Parcel 4638840: 4,017 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4638840.md - Parcel 1971237: 3,972 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971237.md - Parcel 1927161: 3,383 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927161.md - Parcel 4630251: 3,330 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4630251.md - Parcel 4638885: 3,040 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4638885.md - Parcel 4628731: 3,030 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4628731.md - Parcel 1927163: 2,831 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927163.md - Parcel 3767623: 2,790 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3767623.md - Parcel 1971236: 2,627 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971236.md - Parcel 1927162: 2,172 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927162.md - Parcel 1971235: 2,091 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971235.md - Parcel 1927165: 2,018 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927165.md - Parcel 1927164: 776 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927164.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Traskernagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 18 Feb 2026, Galway County Council 2660253: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660253/0 - 7 Jul 2025, Galway County Council 2560906: Conditional. Permission. for: lateral extension of the existing permitted quarry area (Plan File Ref. No. 46752) over an area of c.10.2 ha. area to a final floor level of c. 100 mOD; All related ancillary development and associated site works including processing (crushing and screening) and stockpiling of materials; provision of landscaped screening berm and all other related activities; Rehabilitation of the application area to natural habitat after uses following completion of extraction; The proposed development is within an overall application area of c. 24.7 hectares and is for a total period of 25 years. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560906/0 - 14 Aug 2019, Galway County Council 191272: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1919.56 sqm (House - 1855.2 sqm, Garage - 69.56 sqm). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191272/0 - 21 Dec 2017, Galway County Council 171848: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for construction of new dwelling house, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works 222.5sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171848/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Traskernagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA106-161: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA106-161----. On a SE-facing slope in pastureland. Oval rath (c. 30m E-W; c. 25m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a fairly uniform bank of earth and stone (base Wth 2.7m; Wth at top 1m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.9m). A hollow is visible outside the bank at SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 April 2018 - GA106-162: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA106-162----. On a gentle rise in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved overgrown circular rath (diam. c. 26m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (base Wth 5m; Wth at top 1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.7m) and fosse (Wth 1.4m) are visible all round. The outer bank is overlain by a field boundary and no visible surface trace survives in the N sector. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 April 2018 - GA106-162001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA106-162001-. Within the NW quadrant of the interior a rath (GA106-162----). An L-shaped hollow may mark the collapsed remains of a souterrain. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 April 2018 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Traskernagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Traskernagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Traskernagh. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/traskernagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/traskernagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/traskernagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Traskernagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrowmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowmore-60967.md - Glennaslat: https://everytownland.com/galway/glennaslat-62190.md - Knockbaron: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockbaron.md - Knockshangarry: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockshangarry-62877.md - Moanmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/moanmore.md - Rafarn: https://everytownland.com/galway/rafarn-63637.md - Srahdoo: https://everytownland.com/galway/srahdoo.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/traskernagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/traskernagh