Kead

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kead, from 423 m² to 175,368 m² (17.54 ha, 43.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Kead 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.

• 1 Oct 2026N/a

  to; 1. demolish existing manure pit. 2. Construct calf shed. 3. Construct extension to existing existing sheds to accommodate a slatted shed with cubicles to include concrete apron & all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with this application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 26259

• 9 Dec 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a two-story dwelling house, detached garage, entrance wasterwater treatment system & percolation area & all associated services site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561821

• 2 Feb 2024Conditional

  to demolish existing shed and construct a new shed over existing slatted tanks to include concrete apron and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 197.40 sqm (shed) & 202.24 sqm (apron)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2429

• 27 Jul 2020Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works, Gross floor space of proposed works; 219.56sqm - house, garage - 53.94sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201023

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 Kead.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kead.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kead, 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 low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kead · An Céad

Area

1,819,455 m² (181.95 ha, 449.6 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbern, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Cloonkeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

493 people lived in 144 households in the Cloonkeen electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinphuill, Ballyedmond, Cloonagh, Cloonkeen Eighter, Fortbrown, Laughil

Placenames

Kead 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.