Killynaher
Townland in the civil parish of Drumlane, barony of Loughtee Lower, Co. Cavan; in Irish Coill an Eathair
- Area
- 30.1 ha
- 74 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 4,929 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killynaher, from 167 m² to 49,552 m² (4.96 ha, 12.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Killynaher 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
22 Apr 2025N/a
to convert existing domestic detached garage to microbrewery and connect to existing services
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560184
13 Jul 2022Conditional
to retain changes made to dwelling to include: additional front rooflight, two rear dormer windows, front brick finish and changes to garage windows and door
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22290
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killynaher.
Architectural heritage
- St Columba's Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding L-plan Church of Ireland church, built 1821, with three-bay nave having three-stage square tower to west gable, north transept and vestry added 1863. Pitched slate roofs, with artificial slate roof to nave, clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to nave and tower, smooth rendered walls to east elevation, random squared and skewed stone to north transept and vestry. Stone fractables to gables with octagonal-profile finials, eaves string course forming pediment to west gable. Crenellated parapet to tower set forward on profiled corbel table on stepped brackets, string courses at stage levels. Pointed and louvred belfry openings in upper stage of tower with twin-light timber tracery and hood moulding. Square-headed window opening to middle stage with twin-light timber tracery and hood moulding. Pointed twin-light cusped timber tracery windows with multiple-pane clear glass to south nave. Triple light cusped timber tracery windows to east window. Triple-light Decorated-Gothic style stone tracery window with mandala motif to gable of transept, smaller twin-light stone tracery windows to sides of transept, single lancet to vestry, all with clear-glazed metal lattice windows. Pointed arch double-leaf sheeted timber doors to tower entrance, single leaf sheeted timber door to vestry. Stone flags within tower entrance hall. King-post trusses to nave interior with cusped detail to rafters, resting on curved hammer-beam brackets on wall corbels. Large arched trusses over transept. Pointed arch to transept springing from floor level, now filled in to form separate space with small connecting door having low pointed arch. Timber dado to nave and transept, original timber pews in nave. Timber floor below pews and in transept. Stone steps to altar area with decorative tile floor. Decorative cast-iron uprights support timber altar rail with sliding brass bar to close opening in rail in front of altar. Decorative timber screen to rear of altar. Carved timber pulpit and reading desk. Raked timber gallery to west of nave on pair of timber clustered columns and wall responds. Timber door to gallery in high pointed opening with fixed overpanel. Open backed pews to gallery with box pew to centre. Timber entrance doors to nave set in deep arched opening with timber lining and recessed pockets for open door leaves. Stone font near entrance. Graveyard with rubble stone boundary walls having decorative cast-iron gates set square-profile ashlar piers with chamfered bases, projecting cornice, and square blocking course. Single-storey four-bay stone structure with hipped slate roof, to south-east corner of site.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killynaher.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Killynaher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Killynaher · Coill an Eathair
- Area
- 301,291 m² (30.13 ha, 74.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumlane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Lower
- Electoral division
- Ardue, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardue electoral division: 897 people in 278 households; 84% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Artidowney, Drumasladdy, Drumbrughas, Gartaquill, Meeltoge, Rahaghan
- Placenames
- Killynaher 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.