Killyfassy
Killyfassy is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymachugh, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan.
- Area
- 102.9 ha
- 254 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 3,130 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killyfassy, from 18 m² to 219,673 m² (21.97 ha, 54.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Killyfassy 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
13 Aug 2026N/a
(1) To retain the existing single storey extension to the dwelling (2) Construct a new single storey extension to the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660448
18 Jan 2024Conditional
to retain alterations to floor plans & elevations & all associated works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460014
31 May 2019Conditional
retain the following: (1) position of site entrance and alterations to site boundaries and (2) single storey detached domestic garage and all associated works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19206
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 Killyfassy.
Recorded monuments
- CV038-038 Ringfort - rath
Description
Levelled in the 1960s (local information). Situated on the summit of a drumlin ridge. An earlier report (OPW 1963) described the site as a circular platform (diam. 36.5m) enclosed by an earthen bank and fosse. Original entrance was not recognisable. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
- CV038-039 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a low earthen bank. The NE half of the site has been destroyed as a result of quarrying. Original entrance not recognisable. Densely overgrown with vegetation. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killyfassy.
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 low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killyfassy.
- 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 Killyfassy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Killyfassy
- Area
- 1,028,692 m² (102.87 ha, 254.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymachugh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmahon
- Electoral division
- Ballymachugh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 838 people lived in 276 households in the Ballymachugh electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghoutereery, Ballaghanna, Cavancoulter, Crover, Tullyboy, Turin
- Placenames
- Killyfassy 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.