Kilgevrin

139 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgevrin, from 92 m² to 140,618 m² (14.06 ha, 34.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Kilgevrin 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.

• 4 Feb 2026Conditional

  of the existing dwelling house, storage sheds, septic tank /percolation area and all ancillary site works on revised site boundaries (previous planning application reference number 95/804)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660153

• 11 Nov 2025N/a

  of the existing dwelling house, storage sheds, septic tank/percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561651

• 24 Jun 2025Conditional

  to create a new entrance to provide for the safe access and egress of agricultural and forestry related vehicles along with all associated works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560828

• 27 Feb 2025Conditional

  to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 256.00 sqm(H), 60.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560209

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  of a dwelling house, domestic garage, and wastewater treatment system on revised site boundaries to that permitted under planning reference 23/51. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 72.15 sqm(house) & 46.20 sqm(garage)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24364

• 1 Oct 2024Refused

  to create a new entrance to provide for the safe access and egress of agricultural and forestry related vehicles along with all associated works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461286

• 30 Sept 2024Conditional

  for existing milking parlour, dairy, plant room, collecting yard, loose area & slatted cubicle shed with underground slurry storage tanks along with all associated site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2461279

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  for alterations and extension to an existing detached dwelling. The construction of an extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house, an attached garage, alterations to elevations, internal reconfigurations, new on-site wastewater system together with all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 181.60 sqm (extension) & 27.00 sqm (garage). Gross floor space of any demolition: 56.60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460925

• 14 Jun 2024Conditional

  for alterations to and for the construction of an extension onto the rear of an existing dwellinghouse and for the construction of a domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: (Extension) 97.60 sqm & (Garage) 60.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460727

• 4 Mar 2024Conditional

  for instream habitat restoration works in the Kilgevrin River: including the addition of spawning gravel, random boulders, installation of alternating deflectors and excavation of pools. The development will include riparian buffer fencing and tree planting along the Kilgevrin river. The NIS has been submitted with this application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460227

• 31 Jan 2024Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 236 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460106

• 16 Feb 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 118.35 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2351

• 10 Jun 2022N/a

  for development consisting of construction of a new milking parlour, dairy, plant room, roofed collecting yard, loose area, slatted cubicle shed, underground slurry storage tanks & walled silage slab along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1826.56 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22764

• 24 Nov 2021Refused

  to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works: dwelling house 222sqm, garage 61sqm

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 212189

• 25 Aug 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 229.5 sqm (house) and 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211537

• 28 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works; 250sqm (house) 60sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201394

• 30 Jul 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area along with all associated site services and works. Gross floor space of proposed area: 245.61 msq & 60 msq

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201035

• 10 Dec 2019Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 246.60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191899

• 27 May 2019Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200 sqm (House) and 50 sqm (Garage)

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19801

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA016-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland overlooking bogland to E. Subcircular rath (N-S 24.5m, E-W 22.3m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present only from NE to E and from S to SW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Gap at ESE could be original. A ringfort (GA016-070----) lies c. 350m to W. 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

• GA016-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in otherwise level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (NW-SE c. 30m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank is present from SSW to W. No visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives from NW through N to SE. A ringfort (GA016-069----) lies c. 350m to E. 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

• GA016-071 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland on E bank of the River Clare. Poorly perserved subcircular rath (N-S 31m, WSW-ENE 28.6m) defined by a bank, no visible surface trace of which survives from WSW to N. An enclosure (GA016-072----) lies c. 80m to SE. 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

• GA016-072 Enclosure
  Description

  On the summit of a hillock, 80m SE of a ringfort (GA016-071----). Poorly preserved subrectangular enclosure (E-W 58m, N-S 30m) defined on E and S sides by an earthen bank, and by a scarp along N side. A field bank delimits W side. Possibly a landscape feature. 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

• Liskeevy Bridge, bridge, 1700–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Multiple-arch limestone road bridge, built in two phases, over River Clare. Earlier phase, c.1725, comprises small round arches, three at west end of bridge and one at east, with small narrow voussoirs. Wide segmental river arch is c.1840, inserted when river was drained, and has larger blocks of squared rubble limestone. Large blocks of rusticated limestone form copings to parapet.

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 Kilgevrin, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Kilgevrin, Tuam7 sales

Name

Kilgevrin · Cill Ghoibhreann

Area

3,112,163 m² (311.22 ha, 769.03 acres)

Civil parish

Liskeevy, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Kilbennan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

349 people lived in 130 households in the Kilbennan electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Banagher, Clashaganny, Kilcreevanty, Lehid, Liskeevy, Tonmoyle, Ummeracly East, Ummeracly West

Placenames

Kilgevrin 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.