Kilnahown

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilnahown, from 2,088 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 152,804 m² (15.28 ha, 37.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Kilnahown 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.

• 8 Jun 2023Conditional

  for two loose bedded extensions to existing slatted cattle sheds

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360619

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 Kilnahown.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-120 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a rise in otherwise level grassland. Overgrown circular rath (D c. 25m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The monument is completely obscured by overgrowth. 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

• Liskelly House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gateway to Liskelly House, erected c.1840, comprising vehicular gateway flanked by round-plan piers having moulded string course, moulded cornice and base, cut-stone plinth and cap, with decorative cast-iron double-leaf gate, flanked by similar railings, terminated by square-plan piers having panelled faces, moulded string course, cut-stone plinth and caps with curved cornices, all in turn flanked by rubble limestone quadrant walls. Cut-stone wheel guards inside and outside gates.

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 Kilnahown, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilnahown · Coill na hAbhann

Area

560,081 m² (56.01 ha, 138.4 acres)

Civil parish

Clontuskert, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Kellysgrove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

386 people lived in 129 households in the Kellysgrove electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attibrassil, Ballyhoolahan, Ballynahown, Doocreggaun, Gortmore, Kilcommadan, Liskelly

Placenames

Kilnahown 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.