Kilquain

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilquain, from 591 m² to 156,058 m² (15.61 ha, 38.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Kilquain 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.

• 24 Aug 2024Conditional

  for the construction of: (a) treatment unit and percolation area, (b) decommissioning of existing septic tank, (c) and all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461105

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  of: (a) construction of a domestic garage (b) construction of fuel store (c) retain dwellinghouse, domestic garage, fuel store, septic tank, percolation area & all associated site services on revised site boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360817

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ardgraigue Bog SAC 002356
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ardgraigue Bog 001224

Recorded monuments

• GA108-144 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In marshy grassland overlooking bogland to the SW. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) and on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as an oval enclosure (c. 31m NNE-SSW; c. 21m E-W). A short line of hachures (L 16m) running NE-SW is shown immediately to the NW. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 July 2019

• GA108-146 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1944-5 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry. 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: 13 August 2014

• GA108-147 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1944-5 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry. 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: 13 August 2014

• GA108-148 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the SE-facing slope of a hillock overlooking bogland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m); on the 1944-5 revision a NW-SE running field boundary clipped it at NE. Apart from a faint rise, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 April 2019

• GA108-149 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a W-facing slope in grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 32m); partially levelled on the 1944-5 revision of the map. No visible surface trace survives. However, its outline is clearly visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 April 2019

• GA108-150 Fish-pond
  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.

• GA108-151 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hummock in marshy grassland, formerly part of Kilquain Demesne. Very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (34m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by an earthen bank which is breached by numerous gaps. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 April 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilquain, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilquain · Cill Chuáin

Area

1,431,635 m² (143.16 ha, 353.76 acres)

Civil parish

Kilquain, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Kilquain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

303 people lived in 107 households in the Kilquain electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardgraigue, Deerpark, Magheranearla, Stowlin, Woodfield

Placenames

Kilquain 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.