Kill

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kill, from 454 m² to 398,794 m² (39.88 ha, 98.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Kill 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.

• 20 Nov 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for dwelling, sewage treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6529

• 17 Oct 2025Invalid - case closed

  Permission for dwelling, sewage treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6218

• 31 May 2024Conditional

  Permission for Retention of a front porch to an existing dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/5012

• 30 Jun 2023Conditional

  Permission for 1) construct a calf rearing shed, 2) to construct a loose house shed for straw/fodder storage and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5360

• 26 Aug 2022Refused

  Permission to construct a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5950

• 22 Jun 2021Conditional

  To demolish an existing single storey lean-to extension at the side and rear of existing two-storey dwelling and construct a two-storey extension in its place.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5723

• 29 Mar 2019Conditional

  To erect a dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4772

• 4 Mar 2019Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4508

• 16 Nov 2016Conditional

  To alter and raise the roof of existing calf house, alter and raise the roof of existing store house, alter raise the roof of existing dairy, alter and raise the roof of existing cattle house, permission to construct an extension to existing cattle house, construct three no. slatted slurry tanks, construct an extension to existing milking parlour, construct a cattle holding yard with slatted slurry tank, construct a calf house, construct a soiled water tank and carry out associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6867

• 27 Apr 2016Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4970

• 14 Apr 2016Incompleted application

  The construction of a dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4817

• 13 Nov 2008Conditional

  Alterations, ground and first floor extensions to dwelling, demolition of existing ground floor extension and installation of proprietary effluent treatment system to replace existing septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9668

• 30 Jun 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7579

• 10 Jun 2008Incompleted application

  Two storey dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7199

• 12 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of 2 no. extensions to existing cattle house, slatted slurry tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5901

• 22 Jul 2004Conditional

  Construction of store house, extension of milking parlour, construction of plant room, extension of cubicle house and construction of slatted slurry tank, extension of calf house and carry out associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5638

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 the townland of Kill.

Recorded monuments

• CO085-054001 Graveyard
  Description

  Roadside, atop hill; rectangular graveyard (c. 60m E-W; c. 35m N-S) enclosed by high stone wall. Just N of centre, fragmentary ruin of Knockavilly parish church (9504). In occasional use; numerous 18th- and 19th-century headstones, earliest noted dated 1795; also numerous low uninscribed gravemarkers. According to Hartnett (1939, 263), rounds were paid here at the grave of Rev. Patrick Murphy, who died in 1845. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO085-054002 Church
  Description

  Just N of centre in graveyard (9541); fragmentary ruins of rectangularstructure (c. 20m E-W; c. 8.4m N-S), formerly parish church of Knockavilly. E gable survives to near full height; central, window missing light surround and ingoings. To N of this window a flat rectangular stone projects from inner wall face (H 0.07m; Wth 0.3m; D 0.28m). Only other sections of walls surviving are c. 6.4m length of S wall, which has been repaired, and stump of SW corner; otherwise walls reduced to sod-covered foundations. Interior covered with burials, most marked by low uninscribed stones; earliest headstone noted here dated 1791, though Hartnett (1939, 263) noted one dated 1757. In repair in 1639 (Brady 1863, vol. 1, 199) bu tprobably went out of use shortly afterwards. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO085-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Circular area (diam. 37.5m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1m). According to Hartnett (1939, 262) 'fosse filled in' and 'its presence is indicated by the difference in the colour of the vegetation immediately surrounding the fort'. Interior planted with trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO085-116 Burial ground
  Description

  Shown on 1842, 1903 and 1940 OS 6-inch maps as small rectangular field (c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) c. 60m NW of C of I church (CO097-001---). Local tradition of burial ground; levelled during field fence clearance in early 1980s. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO097-001 Church
  Description

  In pasture, to N of road. Overgrown, low foundations of rectangular church (c. 16m NE-SW; 9.2m NW-SE; long axis NE-SW); SW corner clearly visible; wall thickness 0.54m. Interior infilled making it level with top of surviving walls. Built, according to Brady (1863, vol. 1, 199), in 1844 and 'consecrated under the name of St James' as the C of I parish church of Knockavilly. Hartnett (1939, 264) notes church 'dismantled in 1871'. Earlier C of I church, on site of medieval parish church of Knockavilly (9504), lies c. 400m to NW in the same townland. Possible burial ground (9366) c. 60m to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO097-002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, on N side of stream. Shown on 1942 OS 6-inch map as mound. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Kill, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Kill · An Chill

Area

910,313 m² (91.03 ha, 224.94 acres)

Civil parish

Knockavilly, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Knockavilly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

477 people lived in 145 households in the Knockavilly electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhandle, Belrose, Raheen, Russelhill

Placenames

Kill 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.