Killimor and Boleybeg

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killimor and Boleybeg, from 25 m² to 52,209 m² (5.22 ha, 12.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Killimor and Boleybeg 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.

• 22 Oct 2025Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to the rear of existing dwelling house, the increased height of the boundary and all associated site services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561552

• 8 Aug 2025Conditional

  for two dwelling houses previously granted under planning permission Ref: 24/60632 on revised site boundary lines and permission to complete the development

  Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2561091

• 28 May 2024Conditional

  for a change of house types from previously granted planning permission Ref: Number 20/1527. Gross floor space of proposed works: 208.44 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460632

• 25 Feb 2021Conditional

  for alterations and extensions to dwelling house to include [a] detached domestic garage [b] extension to rear of the dwelling [c]out building to the rear of dwelling and all associated site services, all on revised site boundaries to that previously granted under planning reference no 13079. Gross floor space area to be retained: 123.73 msq

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21233

• 15 Oct 2020Conditional

  for the demolition of existing veterinary treatment facility and for the construction of 2 No. two storey dwellinghouses including domestic stores and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 267.7 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 84.1 sqm

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 201527

• 1 Apr 2020N/a

  for the demolition of existing veterinary treatment facility and for the construction of 2 No. two storey dwellinghouses including domestic stores and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 267.7 sqm

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 20426

• 9 Apr 2018Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 292 sqm. (garage) 44.80 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18418

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 Killimor and Boleybeg.

Recorded monuments

• GA107-109 Church
  Description

  Within a graveyard (GA107-109001-) c. 700m to the WNW of Killimor village. Described in the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 74-5) as ‘the largest parish church of the period … in Ireland, being 75 feet [c. 22.8m] long and 18 [c. 5.4m] broad’. What survives of this partially reconstructed medieval church is the E gable with the adjoining returns of the N and S side-walls, and the free-standing W gable in which a difference in masonry is suggestive of two phases of construction. Surviving architectural features include a two-light cusped tracery window and quatrefoil in the E gable, the remains of a two-light mullioned window in the N side-wall and an opposing robbed-out window in the S side-wall. An internal division at the W end of N wall is indicative of a chancel (L 6.8m; Wth 5.1m). A small rectangular window in the W gable suggests the former presence of a loft at this end of the church. According to the OS Letters (ibid.), there was a chapel, called 'Seipéal Ui Mhaoilcheir, off the S side of the church. It was built by a family of that name whose burial place was there. It was completely destroyed some years prior to 1838 and no visible surface trace it survives. There is a holy well (GA107-111----) c. 45m to the NE and a cross (GA107-112----) c. 75m to the E. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 March 2020

• GA107-109001 Graveyard
  Description

  In pastureland c. 700m to the WNW of Killimor village. This roughly rectangular graveyard (c. 55m E-W; c. 45m N-S) is delimited by a rendered stone wall capped with concrete. Access is gained through a gateway at NE. The remains of a medieval church (GA107-109001-) occupy its N half. Apart from one medieval graveslab (GA107-109002-) located within the church, the burials date from the late 18th century to the 20th century. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 March 2020

• GA107-109002 Graveslab
  Description

  Within the NE corner of the church (GA107-109----). Noted in the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 74-5), this 17th-century graveslab (overall L 1.84m; max. Wth 0.66m tapering to 0.37) is broken in three pieces. It is dated 164? and depicts a cross, the head of which consists of an open lozenge that expands into fleur-de-lis terminals. The shaft stands on a stepped Calvary base. An incomplete inscription in running along the sides and shaft reads: [TH]IS STONE WAS MADE FOR THOMAS ?GE TRESSY ? FOR HIS SON [WIL]LIAM ?? Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 March 2020 The following images have been uploaded: GA107-109002-_01.jpg GA107-109002-_02.jpg

• GA107-111 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In pastureland on the N side of an E-W running roadway, a medieval church (GA107-109----) and graveyard (GA107-109001-) lie across the road to the SE. According to the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 76), in 1838, this well was ‘still considered somewhat sacred, but the natives of Sil Amnchadha, who are becoming less credulous every year, never perform turrises at it, nor even take off their hats when passing by it, which argues a great falling off from the piety of their ancestors’. On inspection in April 1984, a circular depression (diam. 1m) marked the site of the well, which had dried up. A shallow drain lead from it at N. The depression was filled in for the most part with rocks. No votive offerings were visible. Most of the field surrounding the well has subsequently been redeveloped as a carpark servicing the graveyard. A modern Marian Grotto within it marks the site of the well (https://heritage.galwaycommunityheritage.org/content/places/killimor-heritage-group/places-killimor-heritage-group/killimor-heritage-trail/15-the-holy-well last accessed 11 April 2023) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of Upload: 12 April 2023

• GA107-112 Cross
  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

• Hearnesbrooke Bridge, bridge, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch bridge, built c.1760, carrying minor road over Kilcrow River. Central arch blocked, and V-profile poured concrete buttress added to centre of east elevation c.1940. Rubble stone walls, rubble stone parapet walls with tooled limestone curved coping stones. Slightly pointed arches with cut limestone voussoirs, rubble limestone soffits. Bridge now bypassed, replacement single-span reinforced concrete bridge to north-east, having steel railings and snecked stone-clad piers to parapet.

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 Killimor and Boleybeg, about 1 in 10 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 Killimor and Boleybeg.

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 Killimor and Boleybeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Killimor and Boleybeg · Cill Íomair agus an Bhuaile Bheag

Area

389,775 m² (38.98 ha, 96.32 acres)

Civil parish

Killimorbologue, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Killimor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

715 people lived in 256 households in the Killimor electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycahill, Caher, Cloonconabeg, Garryad and Garryduff, Garrynasillagh, Hearnesbrooke Demesne, Magheramore, Moneenaveena, Rusheeny

Placenames

Killimor and Boleybeg 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.