Kylemore

134 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kylemore, from 84 m² to 244,273 m² (24.43 ha, 60.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Kylemore 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.

• 8 Feb 2026Conditional

  of design changes to a dwelling and garage pursuant to planning permission 181696

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2660184

• 8 Dec 2025Conditional

  for renovations and elevational changes to existing dwelling and part conversion to a granny flat, construction of a two storey extension to the side existing dwelling, to retain the existing garage, to retain the second number vehicular entrance to the property, and all site services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561813

• 2 May 2025Conditional

  for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house, replacement of existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system, new percolation area and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 181.70 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560534

• 17 Oct 2023Conditional

  to erect new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area & all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361242

• 27 Jul 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area & all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360861

• 12 Oct 2022N/a

  for a double garage, and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 221104

• 16 Apr 2022Conditional

  renovation works to existing outbuildings protected structure Ref. no. 3636 to include roof repair / replacement, new windows and doors to existing openings, new floors, lime rendering of walls and all associated site services.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260363

• 11 Apr 2022Unconditional

  to retain and complete dwelling house under construction, to install a waste water treatment unit with soil polishing filter and to retain caravan on site for the duration of construction of the dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works 202.71sqm.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 22485

• 10 Jan 2022Refused

  for alterations and extensions to existing two storey house including; single storey extension to front (30sqm), two storey extension to rear (48.23sqm), replacement of existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system, new percolation area and associated site works

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 2213

• 23 Jul 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a Dwelling House, Domestic garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works; 184 sqm + 50.96 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211354

• 11 Feb 2021Conditional

  for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment plant and percolation area, along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: H: 226 sqm, G: 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21155

• 30 Jul 2020Conditional

  to erect a new three bay Agricultural shed and extend existing silage slab and all associated site works & services. Gross floor space of proposed developments: 280 & 60 msq

  Retention · Galway County Council, 201052

• 28 Nov 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a granny flat to the side of an existing dwelling house and the demolition of partially constructed garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 90 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 37 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191843

• 28 Nov 2018Conditional

  for a new dwelling house, garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system and associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: (House) 220.38 sqm, (Garage) 40.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181696

• 7 Nov 2017Conditional

  to retain and complete dwelling house under construction, to install a waste water treatment unit with soil polishing filter and to retain caravan on site for the duration of construction of the dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works 202.71sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171591

• 2 Aug 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 280.5sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171168

• 22 Jun 2017Conditional

  for alterations and extensions to existing two storey house including; single storey extension to front (30sqm), two storey extension to rear (48.23sqm), replacement of existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system, new percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17922

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 Kylemore.

Recorded monuments

• GA126-036 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 September 2015

• GA126-037 Quarry
  Description

  On a hillock in marshy grassland. A hachured feature marked on the 1947-8 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused sand quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 August 2014

Architectural heritage

• Kylemore House, house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1840, having three-bay side and rear elevations, and outbuildings to yard to south. Hipped slate roof, centrally placed pair of red brick chimneystacks, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled render to front (north) and west elevations, roughcast rendered walls elsewhere. Elliptical-headed doorway with moulded render surround, cut limestone steps, timber panelled door with overlight and sidelights. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to west side of yard with pitched slate roof, rubble limestone and sandstone walls square-headed doorways and segmental-arch vehicular entrance with yellow brick voussoirs. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to north and south sides of yards, with pitched slate roofs and cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble limestone walls with square-headed openings and segmental-arch vehicular entrance with yellow brick voussoirs, and elliptical-arch vehicular entrance with dressed limestone voussoirs to openings. Wrought-iron double-leaf gate set to rubble limestone square-plan piers to farmyard. Road entrance comprises double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate set to cut limestone piers with plinths and pyramidal caps, with cut limestone wheel guards, and rubble limestone flanking walls.

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 Kylemore, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Kylemore, Abbey5 sales

Name

Kylemore · An Choill Mhór

Area

2,067,484 m² (206.75 ha, 510.89 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Abbeyville, the unit of the census

Census 2022

274 people lived in 102 households in the Abbeyville electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackery South, Cappagh, Cartron North, Conicar, Coolfin, Crannagh, Easterfield, Garrynaglogh

Placenames

Kylemore 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.