Keamsellagh East

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keamsellagh East, from 425 m² to 431,736 m² (43.17 ha, 106.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Keamsellagh East 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

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: Kiltiernan Turlough SAC 001285
• Special Area of Conservation: Ardrahan Grassland SAC 002244
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kiltiernan Turlough 001285

Recorded monuments

• GA103-122 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In reclaimed pastureland. Subcircular rath (26.8m WSW-ENE), in fair condition, defined by a grassed-over bank of earth and stone from E through S to NNW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Field-clearance rubble obscures the bank from E to S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

• GA103-123 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map (1933) as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) with a field boundary curving around the W half of the monument. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 195, no. 73) as an ‘Earthen fort’ within which there was a souterrain (GA103-123001-). No visible surface trace survives due to land reclamation. The field boundary has also been cleared away. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

• GA103-123001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a rath (GA103-123----). McCaffrey (1952, 195, no. 73) noted a blocked-up souterrain. No visible surface trace of it survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

• GA103-124 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level reclaimed farmland. Described by the landowner as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a drystone wall. Apart from slight traces of the wall foundations at S, which are overlain by a later field wall, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 March 2019

• GA103-217 Milestone
  Description

  In a grassy verge on the E side of a local road. Named ‘M.S.’ on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this milestone (max. H 0.8m; Wth 0.30m at front, 0.46m at rear; D 0.36m) consists of a well-dressed trapezoidal-shaped limestone pillar with flat even faces and a narrow chamfer to the front margins. The crown, upper part of the front margins and part of the upper front face are heavily spalled. The original inscription probably read: ‘11 from Galway’ but due to weathering it now reads: --/Fro-/Galwa- (O’Sullivan 2021, No. 7). The milestone is one of nine in the study area, see also GA122-098----, GA122-147----, GA122-148----, GA113-189----, GA113-217----, GA113-218----, GA103-218---- and GA103-219----). (McManus 2022, 21-2, No. 7) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 15 March 2023 McManus, G. 2022 Nine 18th-century milestones on the 'Old Galway Road' from Gort to Galway. Unpublished specialist report, Ardrahan Heritage Group. O'Sullivan, J. 2021 Nine 18th-century milestones on the 'Old Galway Road'. Unpublished specialist report, Ardrahan Heritage Group.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Keamsellagh East, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_722 (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 Keamsellagh East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Keamsellagh East · Céim Saileach Thoir

Area

876,253 m² (87.63 ha, 216.53 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

Ballyculloo, Carraghadoo, Cloghboley, Keamsellagh West, Kiltiernan West, Parkatleva

Placenames

Keamsellagh East 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.