Killaan

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killaan, from 62 m² to 144,873 m² (14.49 ha, 35.8 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 Killaan 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.

• 19 Aug 2025Conditional

  for the renovation & development of a back garden single storey roofless stone structure - the 'Old Dispensary’ into a two storey structure for use as a coaching & retreat practice space with associated sleeping accommodation, a renovated vehicular entrance, a new parking area, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561151

• 17 Nov 2022Refused

  for the renovation & development of a back garden single storey roofless stone structure - the 'Old Dispensary' into a two storey dwelling with coaching & retreat practice spaces with associated hard & soft landscaping, a new waste treatment system, a renovated vehicular entrance gateway, a new parking area & all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works 98 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221178

• 13 Oct 2022Conditional

  for minor alteration to existing front door, roof element, minor alterations to existing dwelling floor plan to reconfigure layout into a granny flat & alterations to existing North West, South West, North East elevations to suit. Plus single & two storey extension to the South West of the domestic dwelling to house new family living quarters including alterations & additions to North West, South West, North East & South East elevations, domestic garage, replacement & repositioning of upgraded treatment plant & percolation area to include all associated site works.Gross floor space of proposed works 300.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261026

• 30 May 2022Conditional

  for dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment plant and all associated facilities. Gross floor space of proposed works: 203. 66 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22706

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 Killaan.

Recorded monuments

• GA086-148 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA086-149 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In poorly drained grassland, 140m NE of a church (GA086-150001-). This well consists of a D-shaped hollow (N-S 0.95m, E-W 0.58m) delimited by a low drystone wall opening to SW and topped by a modern iron railing. 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

• GA086-150001 Church
  Description

  On N face of a glacial ridge in undulating grassland; it stands at NE end of a modern rectilinear graveyard. Possibly a site of E. Chr. origin (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 605-6, also 609). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a rectangular church (c. 18m by c. 8m), aligned E-W. All that survives is a section of N wall (L 4m, H 3.4m) of a possible rectangular building, incorporated into the modern graveyard wall. The presence of a base-batter at its W end hints that this may preserve part of NW corner. Several cut-stone fragments, probably associated, are scattered around the graveyard. Two holy wells (GA086-150003-, GA086-149----) lie close by to NE and an enclosure (GA086-246----) lay 50m to SW. 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

• GA086-150002 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA086-150003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Some 35m NE of a church (GA086-150001-) and 110m SW of another holy well (GA086-149----). A natural spring well, dry at the time of visit, enclosed by a rectangular drystone wall (N-S 3.5, E-W 2.65m) opening to S. A small enclosure (N-S 4.8m, E-W 2.95m), similarly defined, adjoins it on E side. This is probably the well mentioned in OS letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 605-6) as being 'near the old church'. They record that a pattern was held here on Garland Sunday 'in honour of Saint Laan, the patron of the parish'. 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

• GA086-151 Ecclesiastical residence
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA086-152 Church
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA086-152001 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA086-153 Mill - corn
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA086-154 Kiln - corn-drying
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Killaan House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached complex-plan three-bay single- and two-storey house, built c.1880, having two-bay two-storey block with two-storey gabled projecting entrance bay to front (west) elevation, lower two-storey block to rear, and single-bay single-storey lean-to block to re-entrant corner formed by front elevation of this block and north gable of two-storey block. Taller two-storey block to rear, with single-bay single-storey lean-to block to north gable. Pitched tiled roofs, hipped to north end of central block, yellow and red brick chimneystacks, decoratively carved timber bargeboards and timber sheeted eaves. Smooth rendered walls with tooled snecked limestone walls, cut-stone cornice and tooled stone plinth to ground floor of entrance bay. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and replacement timber casement windows. Tudor arch door opening with chamfered cut-stone surround and replacement double-leaf timber panelled doors, with paned overlight and cut-stone steps. Rubble stone boundary walls.

• Woodlawn Church (Killaan), church/chapel, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Church of Ireland church, dated 1874, having four-bay nave elevation, gabled chancel, gabled vestry to east end of south elevation, square-plan two-stage tower with spire to west end of north elevation. Pitched slate roofs with some ridge crestings, cut-stone copings, carved stone cross finials, and carved stone eaves course with integral gutter. Cast-iron rainwater goods, downpipes having rectangular profile and decorative brackets. Pyramidal slate roof with fishscale slates to spire, corbelled cut-stone eaves course, and metal cross finial. Snecked tooled cut-stone walls with chamfered corners, cut-stone plinth course and with pier buttresses to nave, tower and west gable with stepped copings and cut limestone quoins. Pointed arch window openings, double-light to west gable and triple to east, all with chamfered cut limestone block-and-start surrounds and sloped sills, and leaded and stained-glass windows. Ogee-headed lights throughout, except for east window and vestry which are pointed. West window has quatrefoil light above double light. Vestry has paired pointed lights to gable and triple square-headed lights to east side. Square-headed window openings to side walls of lower stage of tower, with chamfered stone surrounds, and latticed lead frames. Pointed arch double-lights with oculi above to upper stage of tower, with cut-stone louvres. Pointed arch door opening to tower, having carved chamfered stone surround with hood-moulding, timber panelled double-leaf door and cut limestone plinth blocks, threshold and steps. Tudor arch door opening to vestry, with chamfered cut-stone surround and timber panelled door with cut-stone steps and side walls. Date of 1874 inscribed in plinth of church. Interior has moulded render surrounds and figurative stained glass to windows and variety of stone, marble and brass plaques. Original drawings of church to nave. Polychrome tiled floor, arch-braced timber trusses with carved details, hanging posts atop carved stone corbels, and carved timber pews and carved marble font to nave. Carved timber altar pulpit and lectern. Marble colonettes to three-light stained-glass east window. Marble colonnade detail to altar backdrop, having marble colonettes. Decorative wrought-iron altar rails. Ten Commandments in panels to each side of chancel arch. Tudor arch doorway to porch, with timber panelled door. Grave markers to site. Wrought-iron double-leaf gate with tooled stone piers set into rubble limestone boundary walls to front of site.

• The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan single-storey rectory with dormer storey, built c.1860, having full-height projecting east-end bay, having flat-roofed canted bay window to front with moulded cornice, projecting gabled entrance porch to centre of front elevation, three-bay full-height return to east side of rear having M-profile west elevation, two-bay single-storey block with pitched roof to north elevation of this, and flat-roofed canted bay to rear elevation of main block. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roofs with octagonal dressed stone chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Gabled half-dormer windows to front and rear elevation of main block. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, cut and carved limestone chimneystacks, timber bargeboards, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked cut-stone walls to front elevation with tooled stone quoins and plinth course, rubble stone walls to rear elevation and return, rendered walls to north end of return. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber windows throughout, having chamfered cut-stone surrounds with sloped sills to front and west elevations, having carved stone label-mouldings to ground floor. Bay window front opening is triple-light, windows elsewhere are double-light, with some single-light windows. Tudor arch opening to front of porch, having carved chamfered surround, with timber panelled door to inner side of porch, and with shield device to porch gable. Square-headed door opening to single-storey block with timber battened door. Courtyard to rear with two ranges of partly disused two-storey multiple-bay outbuildings, having remains of hipped slate roofs, and brick chimneystacks, rendered walls with square-headed openings having some remains of timber sliding sash windows and timber doors. Square-headed carriage opening set in rendered boundary wall to north side of courtyard. Site entrance to road having rubble stone quadrant walls.

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 Killaan, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Killaan · Cill Leáin

Area

1,395,043 m² (139.5 ha, 344.72 acres)

Civil parish

Killaan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Killaan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

572 people lived in 200 households in the Killaan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonacalleen, Cloonahinch, Clooncallis, Cloonymorris, Cloverpark, Loughaunnavaag, Woodlawn

Placenames

Killaan 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.