Kilboght

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilboght, from 664 m² to 179,743 m² (17.97 ha, 44.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Kilboght 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.

• 10 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct a loose bedded cattle shed with ancillary concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works: 280 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 36 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19530

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 Kilboght.

Recorded monuments

• GA098-111 Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular
  Description

  On a hillock in gently undulating pastureland and occupying the E half of an associated graveyard (GA098-111001-). A nunnery was founded here by St Patrick for his sister St Richella. By 1563 it was occupied by Franciscan monks (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 271). What survives is a multiphase medieval church, in fair condition, consisting of a rectangular nave (21.8m E-W; 6.25m N-S) with a S transept (7.7m N-S; 5.6m E-W). The 1838 and 1933 editions of the OS 6-inch map also show a lateral extension to the N at the E end of the church; it was possibly the sacristy. All that now survives of this is the low foundation line (L 5.7m) of its W wall. Of the church, which is heavily overgrown with ivy, the W gable, the W half of the N wall and most of the S wall survive but the E gable has been levelled and only the foundation line of the E half of the N wall is visible. The S wall is in a much-collapsed state to the E of the transept; all the walls of the latter structure survive; it appears to be a later addition as its E wall is not bonded into the nave. The main surviving architectural features in the nave include a pointed-arch doorway in the W gable with a beautiful font in its S jamb and a round-headed single-light window set off-centre above it, a piscina and two rectangular windows in the S wall, one of which is blocked up. In the transept there is a fine pointed two-light window with a quatrefoil in the S gable and a rectangular window in the E wall; a modern graveslab has been inserted into the lower half of the latter one. Two medieval graveslabs (GA098-111003- and GA098-111004-) are visible within the nave. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 485-8) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 February 2020

• GA098-111001 Graveyard
  Description

  This graveyard (55m E-W; 50m N-S), roughly trapezoidal shaped in plan, is associated with 'Kilboght Convent' (GA098-111----) which occupies its E half. It is enclosed by a stone wall and access is at the NW corner. A number of mature trees are growing within it. Most of the headstones date to the 19th century. Two large burial vaults are visible, one to the SW of the church, is dedicated to the Burke family and is dated 1814; the second one was flooded and inaccessible at the time of inspection. Most of the graveslabs are overgrown or are covered with ivy. Some cut-stone fragments from the church have been reused as grave-markers. Two medieval graveslabs (GA098-111003- and GA098-111004-) are visible in the nave of the church. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 February 2020

• GA098-111002 Graveslab
  Description

  This slightly tapering graveslab (L 1.83m; Wth at base 0.58m; Wth at shoulder 0.56m; Wth at top 0.18m) is one of two 17th-century graveslabs (see also GA098-111003-) within the church (GA098-111----). The head of the slab is rounded and it varies in thickness of between 0.1m to 0.4m. A raised open lozenge forms the head and arms of a cross and the shaft running from it ends on a stepped Calvary base. Within the lozenge the monogram IHS is visible and a small Greek cross that springs from the horizontal bar of the 'H' is similar to a graveslab (GA117-065006-) in Lickmolassy. The graveslabs were brought our attention by Dr C. Cunniffe. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 February 2020 The following image has been uploaded: GA098-111002-_01.jpg

• GA098-111003 Graveslab
  Description

  This is one of two 17th-century graveslabs (see also GA098-111002-) within the church (GA098-111----). It is roughly rectangular in shape (L 1.94m; Wth at top 0.87m; Wth at bottom 0.69m; T 0.17-0.2m) and is dated 1642. It is dedicated to a priest. The inscription runs around the edges of the slab. The graveslabs were brought our attention by Dr C. Cunniffe. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 February 2020 The following image has been uploaded: GA098-113003-_01.jpg

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilboght, 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 Kilboght.

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

Name

Kilboght · Cill Bhocht

Area

884,984 m² (88.5 ha, 218.68 acres)

Civil parish

Kilreekill, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilreekill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

373 people lived in 130 households in the Kilreekill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybroder, Ballybroder, Cahernagarry, Drought, Emlagh, Kilmeen

Placenames

Kilboght 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.