Killestry
Townland in the civil parish of Killaloe, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Coill Eistire
Parcel 4398802
- Area
- 25,678 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Killestry
Planning applications on this parcel
5 Jun 2026N/a
for a new single storey, detached garage / home gym / kennel / stable building and a detached single storey storage shed, both on the same site as the house, which is currently under construction (Planning Register Reference 24-60162) and all associated works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2660377
12 Apr 2024Conditional
for a replacement single storey detached house, a waste water treatment system and all associated works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460162
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1118 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
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
- 100.4 ha
- 248 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 5,114 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres)
- Zoning
- C5
- Tourism
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killestry, from 537 m² to 218,064 m² (21.81 ha, 53.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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
- C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
Killaloe Settlement Plan, Clare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Killaloe Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Jun 2026N/a
for a new single storey, detached garage / home gym / kennel / stable building and a detached single storey storage shed, both on the same site as the house, which is currently under construction (Planning Register Reference 24-60162) and all associated works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2660377
15 Jan 2026Conditional
of as built garage to the side of my dwelling and all associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 2660007
18 Dec 2025N/a
to retain as Built Garage to the side of dwelling and all associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 2560803
28 Nov 2025N/a
to retain as Built Garage to the rear of dwelling and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560744
15 Aug 2024Conditional
for development at the site at Shantraud, Killaloe, Co. Clare. The development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling house, entrance from public road, driveway, connection to group water scheme, sewerage treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460382
1 Aug 2024Conditional
to refurbish an existing house and to construct a ground floor and a dormer roof extension, which includes the provision of a supported living accommodation unit, and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with this application
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460357
24 May 2024Conditional
to RETAIN an Outbuilding/ Shed and all associated site works.
Retention · Clare County Council, 2460238
15 May 2024N/a
to RETAIN an Outbuilding/ Shed and all associated site works.
Retention · Clare County Council, 2460209
12 Apr 2024Conditional
for a replacement single storey detached house, a waste water treatment system and all associated works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460162
27 Feb 2024N/a
for to refurbish an existing house and to construct a ground floor and a dormer roof extension, which includes the provision of a supported living accommodation unit, and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning Authority with this Application and Retention Permission for the construction of a shed.
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460080
18 Sept 2023Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling house, entrance from public road, driveway, connection to group water scheme, sewerage treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360375
1 Sept 2022Conditional
for change of house type from that permitted under planning ref P21/984 and to connect to effluent treatment system and percolation area and entrance already approved by Planning ref P21/984 and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 22781
18 May 2022Conditional
to refurbish an existing house and to construct a ground floor and dormer roof extension and a Granny Flat extension to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 22445
20 Sept 2021Conditional
to erect a dwelling house, entrance, effluent treatment system and percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21984
18 Sept 2020N/a
to erect dwelling sewage treatment unit, percolation area and entrance
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20657
1 Aug 2019Conditional
to RETAIN garage as constructed for private domestic use and to RETAIN minor alterations to elevations of dwelling house as constructed, and for planning PERMISSION to install two velux roof lights to the side of roof to bring natural light to the attic and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19631
29 Mar 2019Conditional
to RETAIN minor alterations to house elevations, RETAIN existing garage for private domestic use and RETAIN 2.6m high garden wall between front and rear garden and all associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 19234
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- CL045-049 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killestry.
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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1118 (ZIP).
- 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 Killestry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Killestry · Coill Eistire
- Area
- 1,003,762 m² (100.38 ha, 248.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaloe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Killaloe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killaloe electoral division: 2,300 people in 887 households; 64% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonfadda, Creeveroe, Moys, Shantraud
- Placenames
- Killestry 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.