Kilgarve
Kilgarve is a townland in the civil parish of Kilronan, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is An Choill Gharbh.
Parcel 707950
- Area
- 26,727 m² (2.67 ha, 6.6 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 67 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Kilgarve
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- 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 high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 72.3 ha
- 179 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 18,156 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgarve, from 17 m² to 118,903 m² (11.89 ha, 29.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilgarve 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 May 2026N/a
Permission for the following: 1. To construct a single storey domestic extension to the rear of the domestic dwelling. 2. To make elevational changes to the existing domestic dwelling. 3. To construct a domestic garage. 4. To connect to all existing services and all ancillary works. The works are located at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660257
14 May 2026N/a
Planning permission for the following: 1. To construct a single storey domestic extension to the rear of the domestic dwelling. 2. To make elevational changes to the existing domestic dwelling. 3. To construct a domestic garage. 4. To connect to all existing services and all ancillary works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660226
28 Jan 2021Conditional
to construct a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, vehicular entrance off public road and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2149
22 Dec 2020N/a
to construct a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, vehicular entrance off public road and associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20578
3 Aug 2018Conditional
for the installation of 12 No. 6 metre high lighting columns to the perimeter of existing walking track and 4 No. 10 metre high lighting columns to perimeter of existing All Weather Sports Pitch at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18392
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilgarve.
Recorded monuments
- RO004-009 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Description
On a shelf towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. The remains of a segmented gallery (dims 4m NW-SE; 2.5m NE-SW) of which the two jamb stones and some sidestones on the SW side survive of the outer chamber. A jamb stone leading to a second chamber to the NW and one sidestone on the SW side of this chamber also survive. These are situated within a rectangular grass-covered stony mound (dims 17m NW-SE; 8m-10m NE-SW; H 0.5m). (deValera and O'Nuallain 1972, 31) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).
- RO004-026 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a shelf of a slight S-facing slope with a N-S stream immediately to the E. Oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 33m E-W; 24.8m N-S) defined by an overgrown scarp (H 1m at N to 1.9m at E), with a fosse (Wth of top 6.5m; Wth of base 3.2m; int. D 0.75m; ext. D 0.4m) SW-NW which is continued by a berm (Wth 4m) SE-SW. There is no visible entrance. It remains unplanted in a forest (OSAP). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilgarve.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- 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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilgarve.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilgarve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Kilgarve · An Choill Gharbh
- Area
- 722,626 m² (72.26 ha, 178.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilronan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Keadew, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 544 people lived in 188 households in the Keadew electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derreenadouglas, Keadew West, Knockranny, Leiterra
- Placenames
- Kilgarve 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.