Killallaghtan

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killallaghtan, from 517 m² to 114,177 m² (11.42 ha, 28.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Killallaghtan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Killallaghtan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Killallaghtan.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-113 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a large marshy depression adjacent to a field boundary, 235m NE of a church (GA099-114001-). Apart from one or two dressed stones projecting from the field boundary, no visible surface trace survives. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 646) 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

• GA099-114001 Church
  Description

  On a slight rise within an irregularly shaped graveyard (GA099-114002-). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a rectangular roofed building, aligned E-W, with a small S projection at W end. However, OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 646-7) record that 'the old church of Cill Allachtain is now level with the ground'. What survives is a grass-covered mound of earth and stone (E-W 6.9m, N-S 6m, H 1.5m) crowned with a clump of ash trees. A number of architectural fragments, including a chamfered window mullion, lie adjacent. According to local tradition, a mother and child sheltered beneath a tree growing from this mound during famine times. The mother died but the child survived by sucking the tree roots. A holy well (GA099-113----) lies 235m to NE and a number of banks (GA099-114003-) are visible around the graveyard. 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

• GA099-114002 Graveyard
  Description

  This graveyard (c. 80m ENE-WSW; c. 65m NNW-SSE), roughly trapezoidal in plan, is associated with a church (GA099-114001-). It is delimited by a stone wall and access is through a gateway in the W wall. It has been extended towards the NW and the line of the earlier N wall has been removed but its line is still discernible. The majority of the graveslabs in the older S part of the graveyard date to the 18th and 20th centuries and a number of worked stones from the church have been reused in this section as grave-markers. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 5 December 2016

• GA099-114003 Earthwork
  Description

  A low earthen bank (Wth 8m; H 0.4m) extends for a length of c. 15m from the NW corner of the graveyard (GA099-114002-). A scarp to its E extends beyond the N wall of the graveyard and then turns S and is visible to the E of the E wall. Here its course is rather irregular. It is unclear if these earthworks are associated with the church (GA099-114001-) and graveyard. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 5 December 2016

• GA099-114005 Enclosure
  Description

  Circa 70m to the SE of the SE corner of the graveyard (GA099-114002-). A raised subcircular platform (19m E-W; 17m N-S) is defined by a bank from NE to SE and elsewhere by a scarp. A shallow narrow external fosse is visible all round. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 6 December 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Killallaghtan, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Killallaghtan · Cill Alachtáin

Area

383,393 m² (38.34 ha, 94.74 acres)

Civil parish

Killallaghtan, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Oatfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

446 people lived in 149 households in the Oatfield electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamuddagh, Gorteenawillin, Lurgan Great, Oatfield, Tooreenard

Placenames

Killallaghtan 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.