Kilgolban

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgolban, from 113 m² to 264,067 m² (26.41 ha, 65.25 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 Kilgolban 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.

• 7 Sept 2026N/a

  the part-demolition of the on-site dwelling to floor level, the installation and use of an existing steel-frame shed for purposes incidental and ancillary to the enjoyment of the proposed dwelling house, to be used solely for the storage, maintenance and display of private classic and enthusiast vehicles, the re-roofing of the shed and the installation of PVC windows and doors thereto, modifications to the existing vehicular entrance to include widening and the installation of a gate. Planning permission is also sought for the removal of the floor of the part-demolished dwelling, the construction of a replacement dwelling on the site, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and the installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system and percolation area, modifications to the existing vehicular entrance to include the removal of the existing gate and the construction of new splayed walls, piers and gate, and the removal of two roller doors from the steel-frame shed, together with all associated ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2661039

• 20 Feb 2026N/a

  the part-demolition of the on-site dwelling to floor level, the installation and use of an existing steel-frame shed for purposes incidental and ancillary to the enjoyment of the existing dwelling house, to be used solely for the storage, maintenance and display of private classic and enthusiast vehicles, the re-roofing of the shed and the installation of PVC windows and doors thereto, modifications to the existing vehicular entrance to include widening and the installation of a gate, and the installation of panel fencing to site boundaries. Planning permission is also sought for the removal of the floor of the part-demolished dwelling, the construction of a replacement dwelling on the site, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and the installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system and percolation area, modifications to the existing vehicular entrance to include the removal of the existing gate and the construction of new splayed walls, piers and gate, and the removal of all panel fencing from site boundaries, together with all associated ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660179

• 7 Jan 2026Conditional

  the demolition of an existing detached garage, the demolition of the existing side and rear extensions, and for the re-roofing, refurbishment and alteration of the existing dwelling house, together with the construction of new side and rear extensions; the closure of the existing entrance and the formation of a new improved entrance; a new driveway; the decommissioning of the existing septic tank; and the installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system and percolation area, along with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660005

• 24 Nov 2025N/a

  the demolition of an existing detached garage, the demolition of the existing side and rear extensions, and for the re-roofing, refurbishment and alteration of the existing dwelling house, together with the construction of new side and rear extensions; the closure of the existing entrance and the formation of a new improved entrance; a new driveway; the decommissioning of the existing septic tank; and the installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system and percolation area, along with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561227

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilgolban.

Recorded monuments

• LI037-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening (Wth 3.8m) and external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 4m). Inner bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.9m) grades towards scarped edge in places. External bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.7m) is noticeably flat-topped (Wth at top 7.4m). Gap (Wth 1.8m) through external bank at NE. Interior level and largely covered with overgrowth as is enclosing element. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI037-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture atop low rise. Circular area (34m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m) with external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 1.8m). Level interior partially covered by overgrowth as is most of enclosing element. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having gable-fronted side entry porch to front (south) and later single-bay single-storey porch to rear (north). Hipped thatched roof with rendered red brick chimneystack. Pitched fishscale slate roof to porch with rendered gable coping and uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered mud walls with slight batter. Rendered walls to porch. Square-headed window openings having rendered sills and uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening with uPVC door to side (east) elevation of porch. Timber battened door to side (west) elevation of porch. Blocked door to front elevation of house. Enclosed farmyard complex to north with single-storey outbuildings, including single-bay single-storey former carriage house to northern range with pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered walls and integral camber-headed carriage arch with recent sliding timber battened door. Splayed entrance to south-east with rendered enclosing walls and square-profile gate piers with wrought-iron gates. Enclosing by earth and stone embankments with rubble stone facing and earth cut ditch.

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 Kilgolban, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Kilgolban with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Kilgolban · Cill Ghulbain

Area

1,679,202 m² (167.92 ha, 414.94 acres)

Civil parish

Clonelty, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Ballynoe West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

336 people lived in 117 households in the Ballynoe West electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughalin, Ballynoe, Cloncagh, Gortnacreha Lower, Kiltanna, Teernahilla

Placenames

Kilgolban 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.