Killywillin
Killywillin is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, barony of Tullyhaw, Co. Cavan.
- Area
- 82 ha
- 203 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 9,134 m² (0.91 ha, 2.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killywillin, from 49 m² to 176,833 m² (17.68 ha, 43.7 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 Killywillin 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
18 Mar 2026Conditional
for erection of a single storey dwelling, a detached domestic garage, new entrance from the Public Road, installation of wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660123
12 Mar 2026N/a
for erection of a single storey dwelling, a detached domestic garage, new entrance from the Public Road, installation of wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated siteworks at the above address
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660111
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 Killywillin.
Recorded monuments
- CV013-030 Stone row
Description
Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Two large slabs orientated ENE-WSW lying against a field boundary. The outer slab (H 1.12m; dims. 1.1m x 0.22m) now overlies the inner one (H 1.15m; dims. 1.4m x 0.13m). An earlier report (OPW 1969) noted a third similar slab incorporated into the field boundary 4.5m to ENE. This was not located. 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
- CV013-032 Crannog
Description
Small subcircular island (diam. c.20m) in Killywillan Lough, c. 25m from the shoreline. Marked on all OS eds. 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
- CV013-033 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked on all OS eds. An earlier report (OPW 1969) recorded a raised circular area (int. dims. 34m NNW-SSE; 33.4m ENE-WSW) enclosed by traces of a low earthen bank. Apart from a curve in the field boundary at WNW there are no visible remains 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killywillin.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred). Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killywillin.
- 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 Killywillin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Killywillin
- Area
- 819,759 m² (81.98 ha, 202.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeport, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullyhaw
- Electoral division
- Ballymagauran, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 236 people lived in 95 households in the Ballymagauran electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymagauran, Boley, Derryragh, Gortaclogher, Killymoriarty, Killyran, Porturlan
- Placenames
- Killywillin 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.