Keave

Area

103,925 m² (10.39 ha, 25.68 acres)

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 833 m².

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Keave

Planning applications on this parcel

• 7 Jun 2018Conditional

  of dwelling house with car port, septic tank and percolation area on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained 251.6sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18772

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Castle Ffrench West Bog NHA 000280

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 5 recorded monuments.

• GA061-089001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland in a house cluster named 'Chapelfeenaghty' on OS 6-inch maps. The Ahascragh-Ballygar road runs through it on a NNW-SSE axis. To E of the road is an irregularly shaped graveyard (NNW-SSE c. 80m, ENE-WSW c. 35m) (GA061-089003-), named but not clearly marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. Roughly D-shaped in plan, its notably curving E wall also forms the td. boundary. Though modern, this may preserve a segment of a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure curving from N through E to SSE. However, immediately outside the graveyard at SE are faint traces of a separate curving bank following a completely different projection. It consists of an arc of a low wide earthen bank (L 12m, Wth 5.6m, H 0.5m max.) visible from SSE to SSW. Within the graveyard are the sites of two post-medieval RC chapels (GA061-089004-, GA061-089005-) and a souterrain (GA061-089006-), and there is a holy well (GA061-089002-) outside it to NE. Finally, the field to E of the graveyard is known as the 'Chapel Acre'. Another large enclosure (GA061-090----) lies c. 80m to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA061-089003 Graveyard
  Description

  This irregularly shaped graveyard (NNW-SSE c. 80m, ENE-WSW c. 35m) is located to the E of the Ahascragh-Ballygar road. It is named but not clearly marked on the 1st ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Roughly D-shaped in plan, its notably curving E wall also forms the townland boundary. Though modern, this may preserve a segment of a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA061-089001-). Within the graveyard are the sites of two post-medieval RC chapels (GA061-089004-, GA061-089005-) and a souterrain (GA061-089006-). Burials date from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 27 October 2016

• GA061-089004 Chapel
  Description

  Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small circular area (D c. 10m), defined by a broken line, in S part of the irregularly shaped graveyard (GA061-089003-). All that is visible in this part of the graveyard are the foundations of a small rectangular overgrown structure (L 5.6m, Wth 4.2m ext.), aligned NW-SE. Traces of roughly coursed limestone blocks (H 1.5m max.) are visible at NW end. This is held by local tradition to be the site of a 'church' and may be synonymous with the circular feature shown on 1st ed. According to local information, there is an inscribed slab (GA061-089007-) nearby (not located) which records that a 'P. James Finachti Priest ... erected this stone and oratory in honour of St. Gobnait Abbess of this enclosure built in 1683'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA061-089006 Souterrain
  Description

  In N part of an irregularly shaped graveyard (GA061-089003-). On 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map, the named 'Cave' appears to refer to a small rectangle (c. 6m by c. 5m) and a circle (c. 4m) in N part of the graveyard. On 3rd ed. (1915), two dots, c. 10m apart, are shown. These appear to represent the two breaches which give access to the souterrain. The section presently accessible comprises three drystone-built rectangular chambers, roughly L-shaped in plan. Access to the 1st chamber (L c. 5.6m, Wth 1.2m), running NNW-SSE, is gained via a modern breach at SSE end. A creep (Wth 0.76m) at NNW end leads to 2nd chamber (L c. 3.6m, Wth 1m), running NW-SE. The NW end is filled with soil. To NNW, a 3rd chamber (L 10.5m) runs off almost at right angles on a NNE-SSW axis. It is entered through a breach at its SSW end. It is likely that the three chambers were originally linked but collapse at the right-angled junction obscures any connecting passage or creep. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA061-090 Enclosure
  Description

  Circa 80m N of ecclesiastical remains (GA061-089001-). A large poorly preserved roughly circular enclosure (D c. 91m) now subdivided by modern fields and cut through at NNW and SSE by the county road. The line of the enclosure is clearly defined to E of the road where it has been incorporated into a bush-covered earth and stone bank which curves from NNW through E to SSE. This bank also forms the td. boundary, and is best defined from N to E (H 1.5m max.). From S to W, it has been levelled and a modern house is built on its line. From W to NNW it is defined by a low scarp (H 0.1m). The size of this enclosure and its proximity to GA061-089001- suggests that it too may have been ecclesiastical in character. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.