Killian

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killian, from 2,025 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 336,354 m² (33.64 ha, 83.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Killian 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.

• 22 Oct 2025Refused

  to build a new dwelling house, install a waste treatment system and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25332

• 5 Sept 2025N/a

  to build a new dwelling house, install a waste treatment system and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25285

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Dromore Woods and Loughs SAC 000032
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dromore Woods And Loughs 000032

Recorded monuments

• CL026-002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in an undulating landscape. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 28m WNW-ESE; max. ext. diam. 35m WNW-ESE) defined by a stone spread (Wth 2.5-3.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2m) which is incorporated from S to W into the overgrown townland boundary dividing Killian and Ballycarroll. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November 2016

• CL026-003001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated on an undulating landscape. A subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (int. diam. 83m N-S; 74m E-W) defined by an overgrown stone spread (Wth 5m; H 0.6m), best preserved at N (Wth 8m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.3m). A children's burial ground (CL026-003002-) is in the interior and a bullaun stone (CL026-003003-) is inside the perimeter at SW. There is a modernised entrance (Wth 3m) at SW. (Swan 1991) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November 2016

• CL026-003002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated just SE of the centre of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL026-003001-). Named 'Children's Burial Ground (disused)' on the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and listed as 'Burial ground' in the RMP (1996). A rectangular overgrown area (int. dims. 30m E-W; 27m N-S; ext. dims. 42m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 3-4m; H 0.5-1m) with some facing stones at N (original Wth 1.4m). The entrance (Wth 1.5m) is towards the S end of the E side, and there is a cairn (CL026-003006-) (diam. 5m; H 0.7m) outside the perimeter at N, but there are no grave-markers. (O'Flanagan 1928, vol. 2, 48; MacMahon 1984, 17) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November 2016

• CL026-003003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated inside the SSW perimeter of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL026-003001-). A diamond-shaped slab of Old Red Sandstone (dims. 1.6m x 1.05m; T 0.45m ) with one complete basin (dims. 0.5m x 0.42m; max. D 0.17m) containing seven water-rolled 'cursing' stones (CL026-003007-). A smaller and shallower basin is adjacent on the surface of the same boulder. Named 'Doughnambraher Font' on the OS 6-inch maps (1840 and 1920) and known locally as 'Jack Baker's well' (Lenihan 1994, 44). (Stacpoole 1904, 190; MacMahon 1984, 17; Spellissy 1987, 24) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November 2016

• CL026-003004 Church
  Description

  The Ordnance Survey letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 49) state that an old baptismal font (CL026-003003-) was said to have belonged to a church that formerly stood here. There is no trace of a church at this location and no local knowledge of one. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 28 November 2016

• CL026-003005 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on the highest point of a hillock. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). A circular grass and scrub-covered area (int. diam. 20m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a stone spread (Wth 4.5-6.5m; int. H 0.25m at WSW to 1.2m at S; ext. H 0.6m generally to 1.5m at S), but no facing stones are visible. There are modern entrances at W (Wth 3m) and NNE (Wth 6m). The ecclesiastical site (CL026-003001-) is c. 30m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November 2016

• CL026-003006 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated outside the boundary of a very overgrown children’s burial ground (CL026-003002-), named as such on the 1920 OS 6-inch map. No gravemarkers are associated with the burial ground but there is a cairn of loose stones (diam. 5m; H 0.7m) just 3m outside the N boundary. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 28 November 2016.

• CL026-003007 Cursing stone
  Description

  Situated in the basin of a bullaun stone (CL026-003003-) lying inside the perimeter of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL026-003001-). The bullaun is named 'Doughnambraher Font' on the OS 6-inch maps (1840 and 1920). Seven 'fist-sized' egg-shaped water-rolled stones lie in the basin which is sometimes waterfilled and associated with the cure of warts. There were previously ten stones (MacMahon 1994, 17) although the number seems to vary up and down over time (Lenihan 1994, 44). Stacpoole (1904, 190) includes nine stones in his drawing. 'Rounds' performed here involved rubbing each stone against the afflicted part of the body and placing an offering of some sort under the bullaun. In February 1993 this practice continued (Lenihan 1994, 44). While stones of this type are generally classified as cursing stones there is no known evidence of their use for that purpose in this instance. Cursing stones are known from a variety of ecclesiastical sites and are present on the altar (CL041-062003-) at St. John's Well, Killone (CL041-062004-). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 30 November 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killian.

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.

No address of the register names Killian with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Killian · Cill Liain

Area

1,013,222 m² (101.32 ha, 250.37 acres)

Civil parish

Templemaley, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Kilraghtis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilraghtis electoral division: 576 people in 185 households; 92% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughrim (Toohy), Ballycarroll, Ballyline, Carrownacloghy, Curraderra, Dromore, Knockaclara

Placenames

Killian 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.