Killeenavarra

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeenavarra, from 1,811 m² to 161,949 m² (16.19 ha, 40.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Killeenavarra 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.

• 24 Sept 2023Refused

  for 10-years for the development of a solar farm on a site of 125 hectares consisting of the following: 570,952sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 18 hardstanding locations, with each containing 3no. electrical skids (each hardstanding location will be surrounded by a palisade fence & gates); underground power & communications cables & ducts, including cabling along the L-8560, L-4506, L-4505 & R347 public roads; 4 joint bays; new internal access tracks; a new access from the R347 public road; upgrade to existing access points along the L-4505 and R347 public roads; access gates; landscaping & biodiversity enhancement measures; security gates; boundary fencing & all associated ancillary development, site works & services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2361143

• 2 Jun 2023Conditional

  for (a) part single storey - part two storey dwelling house measuring 246sqm, (b) single storey domestic garage measuring 47sqm, (c) new boundary wall & vehicular entrance to public road, (d) wastewater treatment & all associated site services & works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360598

• 2 Mar 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360189

• 26 Sept 2022Refused

  for development consisting of: (a) part single storey-part two storey dwelling house measuring 246 sqm, (b) single storey domestic garage measuring 47 sqm, (c) new boundary wall and vehicular entrance to public road, (d) wastewater treatment and all associated site services and works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 246 sqm + 47 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221070

• 27 Jul 2021Conditional

  for a) single storey dwelling house, b) new boundary wall and vehicular entrance to public road , c) wastewater treatment system and all associated site services and works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 236 sqm (house)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211371

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 Fingall Complex SAC 000606
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fingall Complex 000606

Recorded monuments

• GA113-129 Church
  Description

  On the SE edge of a prominent ridge in pastureland. Though marked on the OS maps as ‘Church (in Ruins)’, this large building consists of a church and, most likely, associated domestic buildings. A plinth is visible all around it. At least two phases of construction are evident in the church (>16.3m E-W; 6m N-S). The earlier phase, medieval in date, is represented by the bulk of the wall fabric, which is constructed of fairly evenly coursed medium-sized limestone blocks, and a flat-headed window in the N wall. A round-headed doorway towards the W end of this wall appears to have been reinserted there. An internal N-S dividing wall is evident to the E of it. Sometime in the 18th or early 19th century the church appears to have been refurbished as a mortuary chapel. This involved rebuilding the W gable and repairing the S end of the E gable and inserting a centrally placed cusped pointed twin-light window; there is also a small alcove at the S end of this wall. The later W gable was built inside the line of the original one; the N and S side-walls extend beyond it, that to the S (L 5m) is incorporated into the graveyard wall (GA113-129001-). A large uninscribed stone vault to the W of the internal wall is possibly of 19th century date and a graveslab (GA113-129001-) to its E is dated 1687. The possible N-S running domestic building (16.3m N-S; 5.3m E-W), which is constructed of larger roughly coursed limestone blocks, abuts the church at SE and is two storeys high. Its E wall projects c. 0.2m beyond the E gable of the church; a large breach towards the N end this wall is partially blocked up. Another blocked ope centrally located in the W wall may be that of the doorway that accessed the building. Another ruined doorway is also visible at 1st-floor level at the N end of this wall. Widows include single-lights on the ground floor and single and two-light ogee-headed windows at 1st-floor level. Small alcoves are visible at the S end of both of the side-walls. Traces of a vaulted roof are visible above the windows in the S wall. Corbels at 1st-floor level along this wall suggest the former presence of a mural passage across the wall; a doorway at its E end accessed the 1st floor of another building or annexe which projects from the SE corner of the building. The function of the latter building is unclear. It is rectangular in plan (3.2m N-S; 2.2m E-W) and is also two storeys high; beam slots in its E and W walls again indicate the 1st-floor level. The ground floor is divided by an N-S running wall. Access to the section to the W of the dividing wall is via a flat-headed doorway in the W wall at 1st-floor level. This suggests that the ground floor was accessed by a trapdoor and ladder. A robbed out doorway in the N wall accesses the ground floor to the E of the dividing wall. (O’Flanagan 1927 Vol. 1, 367-8; McCaffrey 1952, 247, no. 7) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 February 2020

• GA113-129001 Graveyard
  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.

• GA113-129002 Graveslab
  Description

  This late-medieval graveslab lies to the E of the internal N-S dividing wall in the church (GA113-129----). It bears the occupational symbol of a plough sock with the following inscription beneath it: PRAY FOR THE SOULE OF D(?)R 1687. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 28 February 2020

• GA113-130 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of a low hill in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath(diam. 24m) defined by a bank which is overlain by a collapsed field wall from SE through S to W. (McCaffrey 1952, 274, no. 8) 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 Killeenavarra.

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 Killeenavarra, about 1 in 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_683 (ZIP).

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

Name

Killeenavarra · Cill Fhionnbharra

Area

540,018 m² (54 ha, 133.44 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenavarra, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killeenavarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

903 people lived in 282 households in the Killeenavarra electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore, Cahernalinsky, Cloghboley, Killeenhugh, Lisheeneenaun East, Lisheeneenaun West

Placenames

Killeenavarra 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.