# Killeany, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killeany, barony of Burren, Co. Clare; in Irish Cill Éinne.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 416,630 m² (41.66 ha, 102.95 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 87,136 m² (8.71 ha, 21.53 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killeany, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/killeany.md
- Barony: Burren
- Electoral division: Mount Elva, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 91 people lived in 37 households in the Mount Elva electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5801
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31485
- Centre: latitude 53.053484, longitude -9.244226 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeany, from 4,838 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres) to 176,512 m² (17.65 ha, 43.62 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1517598: 176,512 m² (17.65 ha, 43.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517598.md
- Parcel 1477219: 130,904 m² (13.09 ha, 32.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477219.md
- Parcel 1453694: 43,368 m² (4.34 ha, 10.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453694.md
- Parcel 1434975: 4,838 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434975.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Killeany in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Killeany in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killeany.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CL005-108001: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-108001-. A network of irregular field walls (c. 1.4km NE-SW; c. 600m NW-SE) visible on OS Aerial Premium (2012-2018) extending across the S half of the townland of Ballyconnoe North. Killeany church and graveyard (CL005-108003- and CL005-1080004-) lie at the NW extent and a significant settlement cluster (Cl009-004----) is c. 340m SE of that. Cashels (CL005-278---- and CL005-279----) and a possible fulacht fia (CL005-277----) also lie within this field system. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 23 August 2021
- CL005-108002: Ecclesiastical enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-108002-. On a low rocky spur projecting W from higher ridge to NE and skirted to W by a small, fast-flowing stream, within a field system (CL005-108001-). There is improved pasture to N and S. A church (CL005-108003-) and graveyard (CL005-108004-) are indicated and named ‘Killeany Church (in ruins) Graveyard’ on the 1842 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps and the stream running along its W side is named ‘Owentoberlea’. The site is reputed to have been founded by St. Enda ‘the evangelizer of Aran’ (Westropp 1900, 108). An ecclesiastical enclosure (c. 120m E-W; 90m N-S), only traceable from E to SW and at NW, defined by an internally and externally faced wall (Wth c. 1.4m; max. int. H 0.9m; max. ext. H 1m) from E to SE and a bank from SE to SW. There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.7m) at SSW flanked by two large transverse slabs. The stream skirting the site to the W may have delimited it from SW to NW and a modern wall running on the line of a low cliff appears to run on the line of it at N. A ruined medieval church (CL005-108003-) is in the SE sector. The church is surrounded by a rectangular graveyard (CL005-108004-) that sits over the site of (and removed all trace of) the enclosure from E to SE. A penitential station (CL005-108005-) and cursing stones (CL005-108008-) sit on the approximate line of the enclosure within the E sector of the graveyard. A house of indeterminate date (CL005-108006-) and a kiln (CL005-108007-) are located in the N sector of the enclosure. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 March 2023
- CL005-108003: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-108003-. In the SE sector of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-108002-), SW of centre in a rectangular graveyard (CL005-108004-) and within a field system (CL005-108001-). Indicated and named ‘Killeany Church (in ruins)’ on the 1842 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A church was reputedly founded here by the 5th-century Enda (Éinne) of Aran (Westropp 1900, 108), so the present church may sit on an earlier foundation. St Éinne is said to have punished the monks at Killeany for not paying enough attention to their religious duties by banishing the fish from a nearby stream (Swinfen 1992, 50). A well-preserved rectangular WNW-ESE orientated church (ext. L 20.6m), comprising a nave (L 10.4m; Wth 6.4m) and chancel (int. L 6m; Wth 5.35), divided by a chancel arch (Wth 1.1m; Wth of wall of archway 3.6m). The walls of the church (Wth 1.1m at doorway) stand to their original height and are built of roughly squared and coursed limestone blocks on the inner wall-face with larger, rougher masonry on the outer wall-face and with architectural features defined by well-dressed stones. The older stonework is of notably larger blocks. A projecting buttress supports the chancel-arch from the exterior of the S wall. The nave is entered through a robbed-out doorway in the S wall (Wth now 2.1m; H 2.1m), but with jamb and arch stones surviving on the W side of the inner wall-face. The W gable is lit by a pointed, almost ogee-headed window in a flat-headed embrasure over a narrow slit window and three corbels project from the inner wall-face c. 1m above the internal ground level. The chancel-arch is pointed in style and built from well-dressed stone but is poorly built and the joints are opening up as the wall spreads apart. The N wall has a rectangular ope (Wth 0.3m; H 0.2m; D 0.4m) at the E end with a flagstone base which inclines towards the exterior. The S wall of the nave is lit by two narrow, almost ogee-headed windows set in well-dressed, round-arched embrasures. The N and S walls are set back on a plinth internally. The E gable is lit by a narrow, round-headed window in a well-dressed round-arched embrasure with light rolled hood moulding and heavier chamfered moulding defining its sill and the lower parts of its jambs externally. There is one piece of decorative knotwork on the exterior adjacent to the hood moulding. An altar tomb (L 1.8m Wth 0.9m; H 0.8m) stands beneath the window. A broken corbel projecting from the wall face (H 0.8m) may be a remnant of a stoup. An older gable line is visible c. 1.5m below the current height. The S wall of the chancel is lit by a narrow almost ogee-headed window and there is an aumbry (Wth 0.6m; H 0.35m; D 0.35m) at corner of the S wall and E gable. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 March 2023
- CL005-108004: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-108004-. Surrounding Killeany medieval church (CL005-108003-) and in the SE sector of and partially overlying the line of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-108002-). A rectangular graveyard (70m WNW-ESE; 40m SSW-NNE) defined by a modern stone wall. The visible burial markers are 18th-20th century in date and are concentrated to the S of the church, with a few to its E. A penitential station (CL005-108005-) and cursing stones (CL005-108008-) sit on the approximate line of the ecclesiastical enclosure within the E sector of the graveyard. A circular depression (diam. 13m; D 1m), surrounding a large grass covered block of limestone (4m N-S; 2m E-W; H 1m), lies c. 5m E of the church, just north of the penitential station (CL005-108005-). The block appears to be bedrock and the surrounding depression may be the remains of a quarry for the church. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 27 March 2023
- CL005-108005: Penitential station, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-108005-. In the SE sector of ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-108002-), c. 16m SE of Killeany medieval church (CL005-108002-) and in the SE sector of a graveyard (CL005-108004-). A penitential station or altar (3.3m N-S; 2.6m E-W; H 1.2m) built of dressed stone. Rounded, water-rolled beach stones used for cursing sit on top (Westropp 1900, 132). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 27 March 2023
- CL005-108006: House - indeterminate date, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-108006-. Situated N of centre in an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-108002-) just N of the NW corner of Killeany graveyard (CL005-108004) and within a large field system (CL005-108001-). A rectangular building (6m E-W; int. 3m N-S) defined by a grassed-over stone wall (Wth 1.5m; H 0.4m). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 27 March 2023
- CL005-108007: Kiln, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-108007-. In the NW sector of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-108002-) just N of Killeany graveyard (CL005-108004-) and within a large field system (CL005-108001-). A grass-covered subrectangular stone kiln (5m N-S; Wth 3m at S; Wth 2m at N; H 0.4) with a stone-lined circular ope (diam. 1.5m; D 0.2m) with a blackened pooreen opening to the N. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 27 March 2023
- CL005-108008: Cursing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-108008-. On a penitential station (CL005-108005-) situated SE of Killeany church (CL005-108001-). 28 cursing stones were noted by Westropp (1905-8, 49) on top of a ‘rude and curious altar of large limestone blocks’. On inspection in 1997 some small water-rolled stones were still visible under a covering of sod. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 20 December 2016

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Killeany, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killeany.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/killeany.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/killeany.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/killeany.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Killeany with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyconnoe North: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyconnoe-north.md
- Ballyconnoe South: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyconnoe-south.md
- Ballyhenna: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyhenna.md
- Cahercloggaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahercloggaun.md
- Cooleabeg: https://everytownland.com/clare/cooleabeg.md
- Cooleamore: https://everytownland.com/clare/cooleamore.md
- Cragreagh: https://everytownland.com/clare/cragreagh.md
- Cullaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/cullaun-30922.md

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.

---

Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/killeany
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/killeany