Killowen

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killowen, from 79 m² to 281,056 m² (28.11 ha, 69.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Killowen 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.

• 1 Dec 2023Conditional

  Permission for retention of elevation alterations and extension of a detached dwelling house as constructed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 23/6410

• 17 Nov 2023Incompleted application

  Elevation alterations and extension of a detached dwelling house including all site works as constructed.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 23/6310

• 13 Oct 2023Refused

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6079

• 20 Mar 2023Conditional

  Construction of a cubicle house, slatted slurry tank and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4504

• 12 May 2020Conditional

  To demolish existing glazed link and to construct a new hall and sunroom.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4941

• 7 May 2020Conditional

  (A) Construction of an agricultural building consisting of livestock cubicles, milking parlour, dairy & ancillary rooms, livestock waiting yard and handling facilities and underground slatted slurry tanks. (B) Erection of an meal bin. (C) Construction of a silage pit. (D) Partial demolition of existing straw bedded agricultural building and all associated site works. Please note this site lies within the curtilage of a protected structure.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4909

• 4 Feb 2020Conditional

  The demolition of stable building and construction of cottage to be used in conjunction and ancillary to the main dwelling on site

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4184

• 23 Dec 2019Incompleted application

  The replacement of existing stable building with a 2 bedroom cottage.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/7086

• 10 Sept 2019Conditional

  To demolish existing dwelling house in ruin, 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, 19/6220

• 7 Aug 2019Incompleted application

  Demolish existing dwelling in ruin, to construct a dwelling ouse, 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, 19/5942

• 23 May 2019Conditional

  The construction of the following i) storey and a half dwellinghouse, ii) packaged waste water treatment and associated percolation area, iii) single storey cattle shed with slatted tank together with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5312

• 22 Mar 2018Conditional

  To construct a straw bedded cattle shed with slatted tank, dungstead, silage slab and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4704

• 2 Oct 2017Conditional

  Construction of a part single storey/part storey and a half dwelling house, vehicle access, wastewater treatment system & associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6542

• 18 Sept 2017Incompleted application

  Construction of part single storey/part storey and a half dwelling house, vehicle access waste water treatment system & associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6400

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  The construction of a storey/storey and a half style dwellinghouse, waste water treatment system and percolation area, ancillary site works with access off adjacent private roadway

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4907

• 22 Jun 2016Conditional

  Construction of two storey (dormer type) dwelling, detached single storey garage, waste water treatment unit, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5536

• 13 May 2016Conditional

  To construct a dwellinghouse with related site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5153

• 10 Jul 2015Conditional

  Demolition of farm buildings consisting of milking parlour and dairy, and construction of milking parlour, dairy, plant room, handling area, isolation/calving pens, roof overhang and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5518

• 14 Jan 2013Conditional

  Retention of existing bungalow, amended site boundaries, existing bored well, and a new revised wastewater treatment plant and percolation area

  Retention · Cork County Council, 13/4046

• 12 Nov 2012Incompleted application

  Retention of existing bungalow, septic tank, bored well, and amended boundaries

  Retention · Cork County Council, 12/6316

• 2 Jul 2010Conditional

  Construction of percolation area and associated site works and retention of miscellaneous farm storage building (e.g. storage of fencing posts, dry feed etc.) and associated septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5646

• 23 Apr 2010Conditional

  Dwelling house, wastewater unit & percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4974

• 4 Jun 2009Withdrawn

  Dormer dwellinghouse and installation of waste water unit and percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5820

• 1 Dec 2008Conditional

  Storey and a half style dwellinghouse & wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9898

• 15 Aug 2008Conditional

  Dwelling, garage and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8421

The 25 most recent of 37 applications.

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

• CO113-006 Country house
  Description

  Eighteenth century 2-storey gable-ended house. View front (SE) of 4 bays. Entrance front (NW) facing farm buildings; central doorway concealed by porch, flanked by sidelights. Round-headed window flanked by sidelights overhead. Double sandstone chimney stacks on each gable. Additions to both gable ends. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO113-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m), planted with trees; as arc of hachures S->N, open to E, on 1902 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO113-023 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  On edge of sheer cliff-face overlooking sea; severely damaged by sea erosion; around half site in existence on 1842 OS 6-inch map; diam c. 60m. Remaining interior D-shaped, almost completely fallen into sea; enclosed by two earthen banks (H 5m) with intervening flat-based fosse (D c. 1m). External fosse infilled but visible in cliff-face. Erosion still taking place here. Site was much less eroded when inspected by Westropp (1914, 97). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO113-027 Mill - corn
  Description

  On N bank of stream, overlooking Man of War cove to E. Ornate mid/late 19th century 3-storey mill (long axis E-W); roofless with gable ends. Front elevation (S) of 5 bays; central pedimented breakfront. Central wide door with brick arch. Wheel-pit (Wth 1.3m) along E gable; internally ironpit wheel with wooden cogs survives on remains or axle. Interior overgrown but quite a number of millstones (french burr) visible within. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO113-038 Enclosure
  Description

  Crop mark (CUCAP, AVL 24) shows circular univallate enclosure (diam. c. 45m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

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 Eoghain

Area

1,723,373 m² (172.34 ha, 425.85 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyfoyle, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Ballyfoyle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

404 people lived in 133 households in the Ballyfoyle electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindeasig, Reagrove, Reanieshouse, Ringroe

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.