Kilnaborris

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilnaborris, from 144 m² to 415,136 m² (41.51 ha, 102.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Kilnaborris 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.

• 20 Sept 2024Refused

  for: (a) Conservation and protection of all existing viable trees and woodland areas and the natural environment as a fundamental objective of the development and the extensive planting of additional native tree species, as well as other planting proposals in keeping with biodiversity objectives, the design heritage of the estate and the proposed development. A small number of minor and diseased trees are proposed for removal to accommodate safe site circulation. (b) Construction of a visitor centre comprising a restaurant, café and gift shop, which will be fully universally accessible with interpretation and visitor servicing. (c) The provision of 10 no. timber shepherd's huts raised above ground levels, to conserve existing ground conditions and preserve through routes for movement of wildlife. The huts, arranged in a cluster, are confined to the north eastern portion of the lands, carefully respond to their specific site context, respecting existing woodlands and topographical conditions. The provision of an external guest communal area. (d) Provision of 2 no. butterfly domes, a garden dome with internal water feature, a media dome, vivarium and mining experience to provide interactive immersive experiences, enhancing awareness and promoting environmental stewardship. (e) Construction of a playground and petting farm area. (f) Provision of sensitively designed landscaped areas, including paths and paved terraces, native, ornamental and screen planting; seated areas; timber cycle shelters and pergolas and water features. Resurfacing of existing pathways with minor extensions and realignments to avoid tree canopy overhangs. (g) Sustainable energy sources with the use of roof-mounted renewable solar photovoltaic panels and plant. (h) Provision of an entrance gate to provide vehicular access from the R356, with related walls and signage, demolition of existing boundary wall and new hedgerow with post and rail fence to define boundary. (i) Construction of 1 no. permeable asphalt surfaced car park providing a total of 250 no. car parking spaces including 18 no. designated parking spaces and 6 no. bus parking spaces and a separate recreational vehicle (RV) area. The majority of the parking bays will be gravel and the designated parking bays will be asphalt. The car parking provision includes for the future installation of EV charging facilities for 20% of the car parking spaces. (j) Provision of public lighting/foul sewer drainage & all site works. (NIS)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461251

• 27 Jun 2024Conditional

  for a change in house design from that previously approved under planning ref no. 23/422 for a dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit with percolation area and site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (House) 145 sqm & (Garage) 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24175

• 18 Oct 2023Conditional

  on the grant of outline planning permission (previously approved under pl. ref. no. 20/619) for the following development: (a) construction of a new dwelling, (b) construction of a domestic garage, (c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area, (d) new site entrance & all associated site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23422

• 20 Dec 2022Conditional

  for the following development: (a) construction of a domestic garage & (b) all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60.3sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221247

• 21 May 2020Conditional

  for the following development: (a) Construction of a new dwelling (b) construction of a domestic garage (c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20619

• 13 Feb 2020Refused

  for the following development: (a) construction of a new dwelling (b) construction of a domestic garage (c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20178

• 1 Aug 2017Conditional

  consists of (1) Construction of a farm building for the housing of livestock including a slatted area over an underground effluent storage tank, and (2) Construction of a silage pit base, all completed with associated siteworks and for the purpose of agriculture. Gross floor space of proposed works 259.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171161

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Natural Heritage Area: Kilnaborris Bog NHA 000284
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216

Recorded monuments

• GA109-041 Burial ground
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of an esker ridge, in woodland. A number of irregularly shaped loose stones lying on the ground may be displaced grave-markers; only one example was in-situ. No enclosing element was noted. The area had been damaged by livestock and was threatened by quarrying immediately to the S (pers. comm. V. Trodd). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 March 2020

• GA109-043 Quarry
  Description

  On an E-W running glacial ridge in pastureland. A series of hachured features marked on the 1944 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused 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: 13 August 2014

• GA109-044 Mill - corn
  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.

• GA109-045 House - 18th/19th century
  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

• Lairakeen, country house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-storey house, built c.1870, comprising five-bay central block with entrance breakfront to middle bay accessed by flight of steps to entrance at first floor level, flanked by projecting canted bays presenting three bays to front elevation. South end destroyed by fire and rebuilt c.2002. Five-bay rear elevation with full-height canted stairs projection to middle bay, two bays to north elevation, and three bays to south elevation, further window to south side of canted bay projection. Hipped slate roofs with cement rendered chimneystacks, and hipped slate roofs to canted bays. Rendered walls, with limestone sill course to first floor. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills, render surrounds to lower floors, and having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns, tripartite to top floor of entrance bay. One round-headed window to upper level of rear canted bay and to north side elevation. Rebuilt section has concrete sills. Front entrance comprising slightly pointed elliptical-arch or Tudor-arch door opening with chamfered cut limestone surround, timber panelled door, spoked timber fanlight, sidelights with timber panelled stall risers, and flight of limestone steps having low stone parapets with limestone copings and wrought-iron railings terminated by rendered square-plan piers with caps. Square-headed doorways to ground floor of north and rear elevations. Outbuildings ranged around courtyard to north, having pitched slate roofs, rubble limestone walls, square-headed window and door openings, and elliptical-arched carriage entrances, all with brick surrounds and replacement timber or uPVC fittings. Recent greenhouse. Shuttered concrete boat house with pitched corrugated-iron roof to north bank of River Shannon. Road entrance has rusticated limestone piers, recent gate, and rubble quadrant walls.

• Shannon Grove, country house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c.1780, with projecting canted entrance bay to front (south) elevation, two-bay two-storey return to east and west ends of rear elevation, with gabled single-bay single-storey addition to east, and single-bay single-storey lean-to extension to re-entrant corner of main block and this return. Evidence for rebuilding to rear elevation of house proper. Hipped slate roof to main block, pitched and hipped roofs to returns, with rendered chimneystacks to rear slope of main block, and triple offset square-plan stack to rear gable of east return, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with tooled limestone quoins, cut-stone string course between floors to front elevation, and cut-stone plinth course. Paired square-headed window openings to front elevation, with continuous stone sills to each pair, with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-three pane to ground floor, six-over-six pane to first floor, and four-over-four pane to canted sides of ground floor of entrance bay. Variety of windows elsewhere, including nine-over-nine pane timber sliding sash window to east elevation of main block, camber-headed double two-over-two pane window to east elevaton of east return and margined one-over-two-pane round-headed window to south elevation of west return. Elliptical-headed door opening with timber flat panelled door with round heads to upper panels, moulded timber lintel, petal fanlight and paned side lights with cut-stone sills. Cobbled courtyard to north has one and two-storey outbuildings with pitched corrugated metal roofs, rendered rubble limestone walls, and square-headed openings and segmental-headed carriage entrances with timber fittings. Ruinous remains of three-bay single-storey gate lodge with timber openwork projecting porch, pitched slate roofs to house and porch, rendered limestone walls, and remains of double timber sliding sash windows with spearheaded bars, and timber battened door. Road entrance has wrought-iron double-leaf gate and square-plan dressed limestone piers with caps, and rubble stone 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 Kilnaborris, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilnaborris · Coill na Buiríse

Area

1,584,930 m² (158.49 ha, 391.64 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Kilmacshane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

234 people lived in 85 households in the Kilmacshane electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cankilly, Esker, Killaltanagh, Killeragh, Rooaun

Placenames

Kilnaborris 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.