Killowen

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killowen, from 2,113 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 465,468 m² (46.55 ha, 115.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 Sept 2020Conditional

  (1)Permission to construct a new single storey side extension to existing dwellinghouse (2.) Permission for completion of alterations to existing vehicular access to comply with Planning Register No. 13/6289 (3.) Permission for retention of revised site boundaries (4.) Permission for retention of minor alterations to elevations of dwellinghouse and (5.) Permission for retention of roof light.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6051

• 6 Mar 2020Incompleted application

  (1) To construct a new single storey side extension to existing dwellinghouse (2) Retention of revised site boundaries (3) Retention of minor alterations to elevations of dwellinghouse and (4) Retention of roof light.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4466

• 12 Feb 2020Incompleted application

  (1) To construct a new single storey side extension to existing dwellinghouse (2) Retention of revised site boundaries (3) Retention of minor alterations to elevations of dwellinghouse and (4) Retention of roof light.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4253

• 19 May 2015Conditional

  Permission for retention of shed, carport and extension to existing dwelling. Permission is sought also for alterations and extensions to dwelling and raising of roof to provide additional first floor living accommodation and construction of new domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5039

• 21 Apr 2015Incompleted application

  To raise the existing roof and for the construction of extensions to existing dwelling and the construction of new domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4799

• 3 Dec 2013Conditional

  Construction of new dwelling house and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6289

• 6 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of slurry storage tower, underground reception tank, underground soiled water tank, milking parlour to include dairy, change of use of existing loose house to cubicle house, change of use of existing silage pit shed to cubicle house, calving house, loose house, easy feed shed and silage slab

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5693

• 18 Jul 2005Conditional

  Construction of slatted unit, calving house and soiled water tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5141

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 Killowen.

Recorded monuments

• CO039-023 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture. Depicted as pair of standing stones on 1842, 1904 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Single stone (H 1.7m; 1.2m x 0.4m) survives, roughly rectangular in plan and leaning slightly to ENE; long axis NNE-SSW. Some large stones including field clearance stones lying to SW. Broker (1937, 25) recorded 'two galláin 10 feet apart, one standing 8 feet high....the other thrown down, 10 or 12 ft long and 5ft in girth, rather flat....'. 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

• CO039-170 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  'Fort with public road going through it, levelled, partly in Pat Sullivan's' (Broker 1937, 44). Located beside holy well (9281), called 'Cill Eoghain' and was used as a burial place for children (9345) (ibid.,25, 34). No visible surface trace; waste ground to N of roadway. May be site of ringfort later used as burial ground. 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

• CO039-171 Burial ground
  Description

  According to Broker (1937, 25, 34), 'old baby cemetery' within possible ringfort (8730). In waste ground to N of road. No visible surface trace. Located beside holy well (9281). 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

• CO039-172 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On E side of N-S field fence. Located, according to Broker (1937, 34), 'just outside verge of old baby cemetery [(9345)] and fort' (8730).Enclosed on three sides by dry-stone wall (H 0.7m; diam. 0.75m) and toppedby capstone. Opening (H 0.55m; Wth 0.5m) to E with steps down into interior. Last recorded in holy use c. 1876 (ibid.). 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 Killowen.

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 Killowen, 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 high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Killowen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Killowen · Cill Eoin

Area

739,772 m² (73.98 ha, 182.8 acres)

Civil parish

Drishane, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Rathcool, the unit of the census

Census 2022

563 people lived in 201 households in the Rathcool electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinkeen, Coole, Coolnagillagh Lower, Coolnagillagh Upper, Drishane Beg, Laght

Placenames

Killowen 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.