Kilconierin

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilconierin, from 1,587 m² to 227,607 m² (22.76 ha, 56.24 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 Kilconierin 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.

• 9 Feb 2023Conditional

  for the construction of single storey dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant and associated works.Gross floor space of proposed works 141.00sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360094

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 Kilconierin.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-110 Church
  Description

  Within the NE corner of a graveyard (GA096-110001-) in pastureland. All that survives of this medieval church is the E gable (Wth c. 9m) and the returns of the N (L 2.1m; wall T 0.75m) and S (L 1.05m) side-walls. The N wall is incorporated into the enclosing wall of the graveyard. The only intact architectural feature is a two-light ogee-headed window in the E gable. Some worked stone, including fragments of ogee heads, have been placed at the broken end of the S wall. (Holt 1910, 147; O’Flanagan 1927a Vol. 1, 174; McCaffrey 1952, 159, no. 42) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 February 2020

• GA096-110001 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with the medieval church (GA096-110----), which occupied its NE end, this irregularly shaped graveyard (c. 60m E-W; c. 30m N-S) is enclosed by a stone-built wall. Access is via a gateway at SW. A disused modern church (GA096-110002-) that was subsequently converted into a cow byre stands in its SE section. No early grave-markers were noted on inspection, all the visible headstones were modern. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 February 2020

• GA096-110002 Church
  Description

  Within the SE sector of a graveyard (GA096-110001-)l; the remains of a medieval church (GA096-110----) stand in the NE sector. This disused 19th/20th church (c. 18m E-W; c. 7m N-S) is unroofed but the walls still stand to their original height; the E and W ends are heavily overgrown. The church was subsequently reused as a cattle byre. A pointed arched doorway with a pointed arched window on either side of it are visible in the S wall. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 February 2020

• GA096-186 Fulacht fia
  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

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

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 Kilconierin, about 1 in 5 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 Kilconierin.

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

Name

Kilconierin · Cill Chon Iarainn

Area

374,913 m² (37.49 ha, 92.64 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconierin, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Moyode, the unit of the census

Census 2022

297 people lived in 100 households in the Moyode electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownamorrissy, Cregg, Creggaturlough, Moyode Demesne, Rathgorgin

Placenames

Kilconierin 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.