Killeenan Beg

Area

326,698 m² (32.67 ha, 80.73 acres)

Buildings

5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 601 m².

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Killeenan Beg

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• GA016-056001 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland, overlooking bogland and a stream to S. Poorly preserved, partially natural, flat-topped earthen mound (14.5m N-S, 10.6m E-W) surrounded by an egg-shaped enclosure (40m N-S, E-W 28m) defined by a fosse. Traces of an outer bank survive at SSW. A castle (GA016-056002-) occupied the top of the mound. (Neary 1914, 124, no. 150) 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

• GA016-056002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On top of a motte and bailey (GA016-056001-). In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Thomas Balve' (Nolan 1901b, 117). According to Neary (1914, 124, no. 150), the remains of the castle comprised 'Nine huge blocks of masonry strewn around and upwards of ten tons each [which] have kept together with wonderful cohesion. Tradition says the binding material was a compost of animal blood, sand and lime. The state of the ruin suggests that it was blown up'. Several large chunks of uncoursed mortared limestone masonry still lie about the top of the motte. No architectural features survive. Slight undulations in the ground surface may be grassed-over footings of the castle walls. Neary (ibid.) also refers to a rectangular 'subsidiary building 20 ft. lower down on N', and to 'an opening to a souterrain in the centre of the castle': no visible surface trace of these survive; the latter is unlikely to be a souterrain. He also mentions the existence of a 'picture' (probably a painting) of the castle which showed it to be 'as massive as Dunmore' (see GA017-069----) 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.