Kilchreest

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilchreest, from 128 m² to 140,984 m² (14.1 ha, 34.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kilchreest 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.

• 23 Aug 2022Refused

  sought to a) retain a change of use of ground floor area from residential use to use as a kitchen and store serving the pub and restaurant, b) change use of first-floor area from residential to commercial/restaurant use, c) retain elevation alterations, d) retain fire escape stairs, e) retain outdoor seating and smoking area, f) retain alterations of site layout including previous access point now blocked on the south-West of the site and widening existing access/exit entrance at North-East of the site and (g) all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed works 72sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2260841

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 Kilchreest.

Recorded monuments

• GA105-118 Church
  Description

  On a commanding rise at the SW end of Kilchreest village. This rectangular medieval church (ext. dims. 20.85m E-W; 6.9m N-S) is fairly well-preserved but is overgrown with ivy. Both gable walls survive intact but the mid-sections of the side-walls (L c. 10.5m) have collapsed. The W gable (wall T 1.05-1.1m), which is more substantial than the other walls, extends slightly (c. 30m) beyond the side-walls (wall T 0.85m) and has a high base-batter. It bears a single bellcote at its apex. No trace of the original doorway survives. The main architectural features include a two-light ogee-headed window in the E gable, a single-light ogee-headed one (placed off-centre) in the W gable, various flat-headed and shoulder-arched single-lights at the E and W ends of the S side-wall, and at E end of the N side-wall. There is also a small wall recess at the E end of the S side-wall. A corbel in the SW corner suggests the former presence of a loft at this end. A number of modern burials occupy the interior of the church. The OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 43) noted that the dedication of the church to Christ - 'Cill Chríost' was very unusual as most churches were dedicated to 'their own country saints'. (Fahey 1893, 435-6; 43) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 February 2020

• GA105-118001 Graveyard
  Description

  This roughly subrectangular graveyard (c. 70m NNE-SSW; c. 63m ESE-WNW) is associated with the church (GA105-118----), which occupies its NE end. It is enclosed by a rubble-built stone wall capped with concrete and access is gained through an entrance gateway at SE. Most of the headstones date to the 18th and 19th centuries, the earliest noted dated to 1730. On inspection it was still in use. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 February 2020

• GA105-119 Earthwork
  Description

  In low-lying pastureland surrounded by bogland to the W, N and E. This roughly pear-shaped mound (37m N-S; H 3.75), in fair condition, is surrounded by a fosse and bank from SW to NNW. The mound is raised considerably above the level of the bank. A children's burial ground (GA105-119001-) lies within the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 258, no. 22) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 July 2019

• GA105-119001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within the centre of an earthwork (GA105-119----). According to local information, there is a children's burial ground here but it has not been used within living memory (pers. comm. J. Higgins). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 August 2019

• GA105-120 Ecclesiastical residence
  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.

• GA105-121 Industrial site
  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

• Killinan House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan Church of Ireland rectory, built c.1800. Front elevation is four-bay two-storey over raised basement, with stepped plan having entrance bay flanked by recessed bay to west and projection to east having two-bay first and single-bay ground floor, latter with canted bay window to front. Side elevations are two bays and three storeys. Rear has recessed two-bay two-storey block. Hipped slate roofs, with pitched slate roofs to entrance bay and to return to rear, with some cast-iron rainwater goods, and rendered chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls, partly lined-and-ruled. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows. Front elevation having two-over-two pane windows to top floor with ogee horns, one-over-one pane canted bay window, eight-over-four pane with render sills to basement. West elevation has six-over-three pane windows to top floor, tripartite one-over-one pane to middle and quadripartite timber casements to ground floor. East elevation has two-over-two pane windows. Round-headed door opening with cut-stone block-and-start surround, having timber panelled door with spoked fanlight, approached by flight of eight limestone steps with tooled parapet walls. Yard to rear entered through gateway having square-plan cut limestone piers with moulded cornices and domed caps, with rubble boundary walls having dressed stone copings. Road entrance has rubble piers with double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gate.

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 Kilchreest, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilchreest · Cill Chríost

Area

1,084,441 m² (108.44 ha, 267.97 acres)

Civil parish

Kilchreest, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilchreest, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 111 households in the Kilchreest electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingarry, Ballycuddy, Ballygarraun, Ballynacurragh, Gortnamackan

Placenames

Kilchreest 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.