Killathy
Townland in the civil parish of Killathy, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Cill Aichidh
- Area
- 249.7 ha
- 617 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 3,714 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 30
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killathy, from 356 m² to 399,394 m² (39.94 ha, 98.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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
No zone of a development plan covers Killathy 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
27 Jan 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to demolish an existing single storey extension to the side of an existing single storey dwelling house and planning permission to erect a single storey extension to the rear of an existing single storey dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0149
30 Nov 2021Withdrawn
To construct a 2 storey dwelling, domestic garage, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7227
24 Apr 2020Conditional
Retention for a silage slab and planning permission for livestock housing with slatted slurry tank, manure pit with slatted slurry tank and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4832
28 Jan 2020Conditional
To renovate an existing derelict single storey dwellinghouse and erect a single storey extension to the rear of an existing derelict dwellinghouse, septic tank and percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4121
4 Dec 2018Conditional
Demolition of an existing dwelling house and existing shed and to erect a single storey dwelling house with detached garage, new site entrance, new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7182
1 Oct 2018Conditional
Retention of domestic garage situated on the eastern side of the existing dwellinghouse, including all associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6572
7 Aug 2018Incompleted application
Agricultural Slurry and rotation crop based Anaerobic Digestion Plant for the production of Renewable Energy and Fertilizer will comprise of the following: 1 No. single storey reception building with welfare facilities, staff and visitor carparking, truck delivery and pickup hardstanding area, 1 No. water storage tank, 1 No. Stream based wheel wash, 1 no. Weighbridge, 2 No. Digester Tanks, 2 No. Digester Storage Tanks, 2 No. Liquid Pre-tanks, 4 No. Feedstock Storage Clamps, 1 No. Biogas Flare, 1 No. Gas Boiler Container, 1 No. Pump & Control Room Container, 1 No. Biogas Cleaning & Upgrading Container, 1 No. Gas Compression Container, Surface water Attenuation Storage with discharge to ground incorporating pre-discharge surface water treatment, 1 No. Foulwater Treatment Unit & Pump Sump, 1 No. ESB Substation, external perimeter stockproof fencing and gates, internal cattle underpass, upgrading works to existing private access road including widening and provision of footpath, modification to existing access junction onto the N72 National Secondary Road to improve sightlines, landscaping, landscaping & tree screening and associated siteworks. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report/ Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6072
15 Feb 2018Refused
Construct a single storey dwelling, effluent treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4386
29 Sept 2009Conditional
Construction of a storey and a half style dwelling and wastewater treatment system (Change of plan from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 06/7616)
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7194
13 May 2009Refused
Construction of storey-and-a-half type dwelling, new site entrance & domestic wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5532
11 Nov 2008Application finalised
Dwellinghouse, garage, site entrance & installation of septic tank & percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9639
11 Mar 2008Withdrawn
Single storey dwelling, detached garage and installation of wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5356
13 Feb 2008Incompleted application
Single storey dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4737
12 Dec 2007Conditional
Extension to store and change of use of same to stables, snooker room and gym and retention of separate store including raising of roof
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13021
12 Dec 2007Incompleted application
Concreting of existing loose houses and construction of effluent storage tank and animal house incorporating slatted tank, calving pens, feed passage and ancillary concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13034
18 Oct 2007Incompleted application
Change of use of and extension to existing store to stables, snooker room and gym and retention of alterations to existing store
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11756
13 Aug 2007Incompleted application
Concreting of existing loose houses and construction of effluent storage tank and animal house incorporating slatted tank, calving pens, feed passage and ancillary concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10232
14 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of roofed hen manure store and ancillary concrete aprons
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8652
17 May 2007Incompleted application
Concreting of existing loose houses and construction of effluent storage tank and animal house incorporating slatted tank, calving pens, feed passage and ancillary concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7865
17 May 2007Refused
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7908
15 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Construction of roofed hen manure store and ancillary concrete aprons
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6074
29 May 2006Conditional
Single storey dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7616
24 Oct 2005Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse with attached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7773
5 Oct 2005Refused
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7280
24 Jun 2005Conditional
Milking parlour, collecting yard and slatted tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4436
The 25 most recent of 30 applications.
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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater Valley (Killathy Wood) 001795
Recorded monuments
- CO035-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842, 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps; fosse shown to NW on 1935 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; circular area (36m N-S) raised 0.35m above surrounding field level. Slight evidence for fosse as depression, difficult to trace due to long grass. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO035-004 Kiln - lime
Description
Built against natural slope; indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map in quarry. Overgrown, random-rubble limestone front wall (H 3.2m; Wth c. 8m) on S side retains earthen core. Lintelled corbelled recess (H c. 2.8m: Wth 1.8m: D c. 2.1m) with stoking hole. Recess and forecourt filled with rubble. Funnel infilled. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO035-005001 Graveyard
Description
On N side of Ballyhooly-Fermoy road. Rectangular graveyard (c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) enclosed by stone-faced earthen bank; gate at E end of S side approached by short passage from road. Ruin of parish church of Killathy (14432) off-centre to W. In use; some 18th-19th century headstones and low uninscribed gravemarkers occur, mainly to S of church; more recent headstones N of church. Large cut-limestone pedimented mausoleum of Jacksons on E side, facing entrance (Roche 1988, 12). Venerated grave of Reverend John Leonard, who died in 1803, marked by stone with Latin inscription (ibid., 26-7; Grove White 1905-25, vol. 1, 229; ibid., vol. 3, 296-9). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO035-005002 Church
Description
Off-centre to W in graveyard (14591). Ruin of church comprising nave (14.6m WSW-ENE; 8.6m NNW-SSE) and chancel (6.8m WSW-ENE; 5.2m NNW-SSE), built of random-rubble limestone. Remains densely overgrown. South wall of nave has ruined window embrasure near E end; wide gap W-of-centre (Wth c. 3m) may indicate position of doorway. North wall has doorway (Wth 1.4m) near E end covered by segmental arch, sides collapsed. West wall survives to height of side walls (H 3m). East wall of nave has narrow bluntly pointed chancel arch. Chancel has large burial vault inserted at W end. East gable stands to full height. Broken gap (Wth c. 1.2m) in S wall probably indicates window position. Remains of parish church of Killathy. Reported 'in ruins' in 1774 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 45). Power (1932, 30) identifies Killathy with Ceall Aichedh, subsidiary church of Tuath O Quain, in Crichad an Chaoilli. A church here listed in Papal Taxation of 1291 (Brady, ibid., 43) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO035-006 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage; land slopes down from site to Blackwater River c. 200m away to S. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W419). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO035-089 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of two concentric fosses of circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989); possible entrance to SSE. Linear cropmarks extending S and E from site are probably levelled field fences. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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
- Mausoleum, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached gable-fronted mausoleum, built c. 1820, now roofless and pedimented to front and rear elevations. Cut limestone eaves course to rear and side elevations, moulded limestone copings to pediment and cut limestone plinth to front elevation. Cut limestone walls to front elevation and rendered elsehwere. Rusticated carved limestone Doric-style pilasters to front elevation, having moulded plinths and capitals, with moulded limestone impost course. Round-headed entrance opening with double-leaf cast-iron gate and having railings above. Remains of medieval church to north-west. Square-profile piers to graveyard entrance, having rounded caps, wrought-iron gate and with stone stile to east side.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killathy.
- 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 Killathy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Killathy · Cill Aichidh
- Area
- 2,496,613 m² (249.66 ha, 616.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killathy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Killathy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killathy electoral division: 422 people in 144 households; 84% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhooly South, Ballymacallen, Ballymaclawrence, Gurteen, Inchinapallas, Johnstown West
- Placenames
- Killathy 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.