Traskernagh

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Traskernagh, from 776 m² to 352,342 m² (35.23 ha, 87.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Traskernagh 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.

• 18 Feb 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660253

• 7 Jul 2025Conditional

  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

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560906

• 14 Aug 2019Conditional

  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)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191272

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  for construction of new dwelling house, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works 222.5sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171848

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 Traskernagh.

Recorded monuments

• GA106-161 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  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
  Description

  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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

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

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

Name

Traskernagh · An Treascarnach

Area

978,968 m² (97.9 ha, 241.91 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeen, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilmeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmore, Glennaslat, Knockbaron, Knockshangarry, Moanmore, Rafarn, Srahdoo

Placenames

Traskernagh 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.