Killescragh

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killescragh, from 126 m² to 183,679 m² (18.37 ha, 45.39 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 Killescragh 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.

• 5 Jun 2019Conditional

  to construct a slatted extension to existing loose cattle shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 117.4 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19852

• 18 Jul 2018Conditional

  to construct a slatted tank in existing four bay cattle shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 56 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181013

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 Killescragh.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-110001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On a hillock in otherwise level bog and scrubland. This oval enclosure (80m N-S; 67m E-W), in fair condition, is defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible all round; the fosse is best preserved at NE, elsewhere it is visible only as a vegetation band. The outer bank survives from N to ENE but is faintly visible in the W sector. A N-S running field wall cuts through the fosse and outer bank at E. A large granite boulder lies in the centre of interior, which is rises towards the centre and slopes to the N and S. Faint traces of cultivation ridges are visible. A children's burial ground (GA097-110001-) is associated. When coupled with that of the townland name, its presence suggests that the monument may be ecclesiastical in character. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 September 2019

• GA097-110002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (GA097-110001-). Indicated on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a small unenclosed subrectangular area in the SE quadrant of the enclosure. No visible surface trace of the site survives here. However, a raised rectangular area (c. 20m N-S; c. 15m E-W) to the W of this location may mark its site. No grave-markers are visible. According to the landowner the last burial took place around 1900. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 September 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Killescragh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Killescragh · Cill Eiscreach

Area

1,254,001 m² (125.4 ha, 309.87 acres)

Civil parish

Killimordaly, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Raford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

645 people lived in 217 households in the Raford electoral division. 84% 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

Brackloon, Brackloonbeg, Caraun Beg, Caraun More, Carrownaglogh, Carrowreagh, Galboley, Sraheendoo

Placenames

Killescragh 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.