Kilcarrooraun

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcarrooraun, from 42,991 m² (4.3 ha, 10.62 acres) to 260,335 m² (26.03 ha, 64.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Kilcarrooraun 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.

• 12 Oct 2017Conditional

  for a forest access road and entrance.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171477

• 9 May 2017N/a

  for a forest access road and entrance at Lissadultra, Peterswell, Co. Galway.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17647

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA114-100001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope in rough grazing land. Circular rath (diam. 40m), in fair condition, defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; max. H 0.6m). A drain has been cut around the monument at W. There is a souterrain (GA114-100002-) and standing stone (GA114-100003-) within the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

• GA114-100002 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the W sector of the interior of a rath (GA114-100001-). This inaccessible souterrain appears to be L-shaped (L >11.6m) in plan from the visible evidence. The long axis (L 6.4m) runs NNW-SSE and is almost completely collapsed. On roof lintel is visible at its N end. The short axis (L 5.2m; Wth 0.9m) extends from S end of W side-wall and runs ENE-WSW. Three roof lintels protrude from the sod along this section. A standing stone (GA114-100003-) is visible in the E sector. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

• GA114-100003 Standing stone
  Description

  Associated with a rath (GA114-100001-). According to a field report in 1970 (SMR file), there were 'two standing stones near the edge of [this] fort (one c. 6' [1.8m] high)'. Only one quartz pillar stone (H 1.9m; Wth 0.87m; T 0.67m) is now visible in the E sector of the interior of the rath. Traces of packing stones are evident around its base. No trace of the second stone survives. Possibly a stone pair originally? Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

• GA114-101 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of a ridge in pastureland. This well-preserved circular rath (diam. 25.3m) is defined by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. A field boundary overlies the bank at SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

• GA114-102 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope in pastureland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. 27.2m) defined by a bank and external fosse. A gap at SW may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilcarrooraun, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilcarrooraun · Cill Charúráin

Area

1,194,949 m² (119.49 ha, 295.28 acres)

Civil parish

Kilthomas, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Kilthomas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

101 people lived in 41 households in the Kilthomas electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylahy, Castledaly, Derryvokeel, Gorteenaniska, Gortnanark, Lissadoill, Lissadulta, Newtownblake, Scalp

Placenames

Kilcarrooraun 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.