Killoran

165 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killoran, from 52 m² to 178,758 m² (17.88 ha, 44.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 55 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 Killoran 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.

• 25 Apr 2024Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic shed, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 230 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460461

• 26 Mar 2024N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic shed, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 230 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460333

• 9 Feb 2022N/a

  to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 210.35 sqm + 30 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22145

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 Killoran.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-116 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In flat marshland, c. 35m to the SW of the Killoran River. Named ‘Toberoran’ on the 1838 and 1947 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. This small natural spring is surrounded by traces of a low bank of earth and stone (max. H 0.3m). On inspection the well appeared much destroyed and almost completely filled in, though some water (D c. 0.15m) was still visible within a small drain-like feature. A number of coloured stones were scattered around it. According to local information, the stones were offerings to St Oran, to whom the well is dedicated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of Upload: 12 April 2023

• GA099-118 Church
  Description

  On a slight rise in flat grassland. The OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 114) refer to ‘an old burial ground [GA099-118001-], and two small stumps of the remains of an old church’. According to local information, this church was originally a barn that was used by the local landlord to thrash corn. It was subsequently converted to a church. The roof was thatched and it was said that one side of it was thatched by the people from the upper side of the parish and the other side by the lower parish. No visible surface trace of it survives. The 19th-century church may have been built on its site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 March 2020

• GA099-118001 Graveyard
  Description

  On a slight rise in flat grassland. The OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 114) refer to ‘an old burial ground, and two small stumps of the remains of an old church [GA099-118----]’. No visible surface trace of either survives. A modern church may occupy the site of the earlier church. According to local information, because of the threat being posed to the 'burial ground' during the construction of the later church, some of the burials were removed to the modern graveyard to the S. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 5 March 2020

• GA099-119 Earthwork
  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

• Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, dated 1837, refurbished 1953-4, having five-bay nave elevation, advanced centrepiece to gable-front, and gabled single-bay sacristy to north elevation. Pitched slate roofs with painted rendered bellcote and render cross finials, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted wet dashed rendered walls with smooth render plinth course, with inscribed cut limestone memorial date plaque to west elevation of sacristy. Round-headed window openings, with painted rendered reveals and sills, with stained-glass windows. Round-headed recess to gable-front with triple-light stained glass window with dentillated sill, and square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber battened door. Interior having vestibule divided into three chambers, with segmental-headed arches, having timber staircase to east chamber, leading to gallery above with timber sheeted parapet wall, timber panelled confessional set into wall under gallery, A-frame open truss roof to nave, marble altar furniture, stained-glass windows, and with carved limestone baptismal font to vestibule. Set in lawned grounds with grotto, later presbytery, and numerous later memorials to site. Recent entrance gates and rubble stone boundary walls. Graveyard adjacent.

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 Killoran, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Killoran · Cill Odhráin

Area

2,595,008 m² (259.5 ha, 641.24 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Killoran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

288 people lived in 95 households in the Killoran electoral division. 98% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinrooaun, Ballyluoge, Cloonlahan (Eyre), Coxtown, Englishtown, Lowpark, Poppyhill, Springfield

Placenames

Killoran 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.