Kilmore

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmore, from 1,058 m² to 178,203 m² (17.82 ha, 44.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Kilmore 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 Oct 2025Refused

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system, and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561480

• 28 Jun 2025Conditional

  to construct an extension to an existing dwelling and to construct a garage, a waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 121.40 sqm(G), 40.43 sqm(extension)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560859

• 11 May 2024Conditional

  for the demolition of an existing single storey front porch, modifications to the existing interior layout and external façade, and for a single storey extension, to the side and rear of the existing single storey dwelling, an effluent treatment system and percolation area and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 127.00 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 4.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460540

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 Kilmore.

Recorded monuments

• GA117-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in otherwise low-lying grassland. This fairly well-preserved, almost circular rath (31m N-S; 30m E-W) is defined by a bank (Wth 4m; int. int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m) which is overlain by a field boundary. A road skirts the monument at SW. A gap (Wth 4m) at NE could be original. A possible collapsed souterrain (GA117-057001-) lies in the S sector of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 January 2018

• GA117-057001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within a rath (GA117-057----). According to local information, there is a souterrain in the rath. Its site may be marked by a rectangular depression (N-S; L >11.6m; Wth 2.4m; D c. 0.6m) in the S sector of the interior. At the S end of the depression a number of large slabs may be displaced roof lintels. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 January 2018

• GA117-059 Enclosure
  Description

  On a prominent rise in undulating pastureland. Marked on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16)OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 22m). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 April 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilmore, 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 Kilmore.

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

Name

Kilmore · An Choill Mhór

Area

1,416,291 m² (141.63 ha, 349.97 acres)

Civil parish

Killimorbologue, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Killimor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

715 people lived in 256 households in the Killimor electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derradda, Garryad and Garryduff, Heathlawn, Lissaniska South, Muingbaun

Placenames

Kilmore 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.