Killeenhugh

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeenhugh, from 5 m² to 137,534 m² (13.75 ha, 33.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Killeenhugh 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 Sept 2023Refused

  for 10-years for the development of a solar farm on a site of 125 hectares consisting of the following: 570,952sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 18 hardstanding locations, with each containing 3no. electrical skids (each hardstanding location will be surrounded by a palisade fence & gates); underground power & communications cables & ducts, including cabling along the L-8560, L-4506, L-4505 & R347 public roads; 4 joint bays; new internal access tracks; a new access from the R347 public road; upgrade to existing access points along the L-4505 and R347 public roads; access gates; landscaping & biodiversity enhancement measures; security gates; boundary fencing & all associated ancillary development, site works & services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2361143

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 Killeenhugh.

Recorded monuments

• GA113-131 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. This very poorly preserved rath (estimated diam. 22m) is defined by a very low bank (Wth 1.6m; H 0.35m) from SE to SW with another short stretch at WNW. A road cuts through it from N to SE and no visible surface trace of it survives to the NE of the road. A NE-SW running field wall cuts through it at W. There is a souterrain (GA113-131001-) in the S sector of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 October 2019

• GA113-131001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the S sector of a rath (GA113-131----). This well-preserved T-shaped drystone-built souterrain (L >22.5m) consists of two chambers joined at right angles by a drop-hole creep. Access is gained via a breach about mid-way along W wall of the S chamber (L 9.8m, Wth 1.98m; H 1.33-1.73m), which runs N-S and lies partly beneath the bank of the rath. A drop-hole creep (0.8m x 0.45m; L 2.8m) at its N end leads to the N chamber (L 9.9m; Wth 2.07m; H 1.13-1.62m), which runs E-W. A large blocking stone near the creep suggests that the original entrance was located in this chamber, which is now partly overlain by a road. McCaffrey (1952, 274, no. 16) mistook this souterrain as an isolated example. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 October 2019

• GA113-132 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle rise in an area of outcropping limestone and undulating pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 275, no. 17) as a circular 'Enclosure' (diam. c. 40.5m) defined by 'one ring of rough blocks' and with a 'structure (GA113-132001-) on the inner face of the wall at S. Due to land reclamation in the area no visible surface trace of either feature survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 September 2017

• GA113-132001 Structure
  Description

  On a gentle rise in an area of outcropping limestone and undulating pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 275, no. 17) as a circular 'Enclosure' (diam. c. 40.5m) defined by 'one ring of rough blocks' with a 'structure' (c. 8.2m by c. 7.7m) composed 'of a single row of boulders' on the inner face of the wall at S. Due to land reclamation in the area no visible surface trace of either feature survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 September 2017

• GA113-133 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle rise in an area of grassland and rock outcrop. Marked on the 3rd edition (1922) of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly curving subcircular field wall (c. 40m NE-SW). The remains of a much-collapsed but substantial wall, possibly the remains of a cashel wall, are visible beneath it in the NE quadrant. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 January 2018

• GA113-210 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In improved pastureland, sloping down gently to a wet area to the NE. This is a classic horseshoe-shaped mound (dims. 12.75m NW-SE; 10.9m NE-SW) open (Wth 1.3m) to the NE. It is grass covered, although slightly denuded on the N side. The trough area (dims. 3.7m NE-SW; 1.3m NW-SE) has a flat base. There is a natural swallow hole adjacent to the ENE. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 13 June 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Killeenhugh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_683 (ZIP).

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

Name

Killeenhugh · Coillín Aodha

Area

1,108,592 m² (110.86 ha, 273.94 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenavarra, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killeenavarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

903 people lived in 282 households in the Killeenavarra electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowgarriff North, Cloghboley, Drumharsna North, Killeenavarra, Lisheeneenaun East, Owenbristy

Placenames

Killeenhugh 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.