Trust
Trust is a townland in the civil parish of Kilconnell, barony of Kilconnell, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Trost.
- Area
- 96 ha
- 237 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 47,823 m² (4.78 ha, 11.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Trust, from 893 m² to 173,091 m² (17.31 ha, 42.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Trust 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
18 May 2017Conditional
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with septic tank, percolation area and a private garage/fuel shed to include all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 171.9sqm, garage 53.94sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17702
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 Trust.
Recorded monuments
- GA073-149 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
On a rise in gently rolling grassland. A circular ringfort (D 43m), in fair condition, defined by a bank with traces of inner stonefacing at SE. Field walls surround the monument. Numerous gaps in the bank appear modern. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA073-150 Enclosure
Description
On a rise in gently rolling farmland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular enclosure (c. 30m by c. 25m) but on 3rd ed. (1933) as a roughly circular hollow (D c. 30m). Described in 1963 as a 'small raised (sub-rectangular) garden plot' (Topgr. Files, OPW). No visible surface trace survives: a shallow hollow now marks the site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA073-151 Children's burial ground
Description
On a slight rise in undulating farmland. This CBG consists of a poorly preserved subrectangular area (E-W 15m, N-S 8m) defined by a low bank along W, N, and E sides and by a modern wall at S. The interior, particularly E half, is occupied by small set limestone boulders aligned in N-S running rows, indicating graves oriented E-W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA073-152 Quarry
Description
In undulating pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a small disused quarry pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 July 2014
Architectural heritage
- Water pump, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, now disused. Comprises cylindrical shaft with moulded horizontal banding, fluted upper section, fluted domed cap with pointed finial, decorative moulded collar to spout neck and cow's tail pumping arm. Set back from road and enclosed on three sides by rendered boundary wall.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Trust, about 1 in 10 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 Trust.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Trust with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Trust · Trost
- Area
- 960,228 m² (96.02 ha, 237.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilconnell, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilconnell
- Electoral division
- Kilconnell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 658 people lived in 225 households in the Kilconnell electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynabanaba, Barnavihall, Carrowmanagh, Carrowreagh, Lecarrowmactully, Lisdonnellroe
- Placenames
- Trust 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.