Kilgaroan

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgaroan, from 858 m² to 205,927 m² (20.59 ha, 50.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Kilgaroan 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.

• 22 Jun 2026N/a

  a new dwelling house, new site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660328

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 Kilgaroan.

Recorded monuments

• WM037-010 Cist
  Description

  Cahill and Sikora (2011, 513-15) record that ‘in July 1956 a short cist containing an inhumation was discovered on a farm near Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath, in the course of land reclamation work, when, large surface stones were being removed from the field. When one of these stones was lifted it was found to be covering a grave.329 The workmen had bored a hole through the middle of this stone, which was thought to be a large rock, in preparation for blasting it. During the drilling operations the stone was split through the centre and partly collapsed into the cavity underneath. The earth and stones in the upper level of the cist were removed, and when the bones were discovered the fill was replaced. The site was reported to the Gardaí, who informed the NMI. The site was investigated by Ellen Prendergast on 13 July 1956, and the human remains from the site were examined by Professor C.A. Erskine. The cist stones were examined by Mr Mark Cunningham of the Geological Survey of Ireland. This account is based on the reports written by Prendergast and Erskine. It lay at the summit of a natural rise in a field adjoining a roadway at an altitude of 60-90m above sea level. It was located some 800m north-west of that discovered one month later in the adjacent towland of Ardballymore (Cahill and Sikora 2011, 478-84). The grave consisted of a short cist, almost square in plan, with its longer axis aligned east-west. Internally it measured 0.6m long by 0.5m wide by 0.35m high. The cist composed of five main slabs, one each at the southern, eastern and northern sides, and thinner slabs placed parallel to each other at the western end. The slabs were supported externally by yellow clay and small stones, tightly packed against the external sides. The northern side slab was built up with smaller stones so that the capstone rested on a level plane. In the south-eastern corner of the cist a rounded stone had been placed touching the southern slat firmly jammed against the eastern slab along its flat surface. This stone measured 0.3m lot 0.2m wide and its maximum height from the floor of the cist was 0.25m. This was not a stone but, as far as could be ascertained, was the upper portion of a large outcropping rock the floor of the cist was formed of tightly compacted gravel around this. The capstone of the cist had been removed but was roughly reconstructed. It was approximately square in outline, a maximum length of 0.8m, maximum width of 0.7m and maximum thickness of 0.15m cist stones were all of a fine quartzose sandstone common to the area. The grave contained the unburnt remains of a child or possibly two children (1956:211) and no accompanying artefacts were found. Most of the bone had already been removed from the cist so that it was not possible to ascertain the precise position of the body. The human remains from this site have not been radiocarbon-dated. In the absence of associated artefacts, it is assumed to be early Bronze Age on the basis of its form'. Date of upload : 13 August 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilgaroan, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1934 (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 Kilgaroan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Kilgaroan

Area

1,502,877 m² (150.29 ha, 371.37 acres)

Civil parish

Ardnurcher or Horseleap, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Lauree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

223 people lived in 73 households in the Lauree electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardballymore, Ballinderry Big, Ballinderry Little, Clongowly, Moycashel, Tonaphort

Placenames

Kilgaroan 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.