Killeen

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeen, from 66 m² to 134,024 m² (13.4 ha, 33.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Killeen 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.

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  EXISTING STRUCTURE AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF EXISTING STRUCTURE AS A DRY AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050848

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 Killeen.

Recorded monuments

• DG107-085 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  This tomb stands in level pasture, 800m S of the River Erne and c. 3km SE of Ballyshannon. The all-round outlook from the site is now limited by trees and bushes. It consists of a gallery entered at the E between two jambs that support a large lintel and closed by a flat- topped backstone at the W. The gallery entrance is incorporated in a field wall. The monument lacks a court, and there is no trace of a surrounding mound. There is a considerable fill of stones in the outer half of the gallery, and the surface of its inner half is sunk c. 0.5m below that of the ground outside. The well-matched entrance jambs are 0.85m apart. The southern one, partly concealed, is set in line with the gallery wall and is 0.8m in exposed height. The northern one, set inside the line of the gallery, is also 0.8m high. The overlying lintel rests directly on the jambs. It is a large block with a flat base and a humpback upper surface. It is 1.7m long, 1.35m in greatest width and up to 0.75m thick. The gallery is 6.4m long and 1.8-2m wide internally. Two orthostats form its northern side, and four its southern side. The outer one of the two at the N, a very large slab, 4m long, overlaps the adjacent jamb. It is 1.8m high at its inner face and rises c. 0.8m above the top of the jamb. The adjoining orthostat is 1.65m in exposed height at its inner face. The outer faces of the first two orthostats at the S side are concealed. The first one is 0.85m in exposed height. It runs on behind the second orthostat, which is also 0.8m in exposed height. A corbel resting on this stone measures 1.5m by 0.95m by 0.4m thick. The third orthostat, slightly inside the line of the last, is 1.3m high at its inner face. The innermost one is 1.6m in exposed height. A small low stone, 0.3m in maximum dimension, in the gap between this and the backstone, is not set in the ground. The backstone, its N end overlapped by the inner orthostat on that side of the gallery, is 1.15m high at its inner face. Detailed accounts of this monument by Thomas Fagan (1845-8) and another in an OS Revision Name Book (1847-50) show that it was then in its present condition. On the basis of the length of the gallery a division into two chambers seems likely. OS Name Book, Kilbarron parish (1835-6), book 4, 3; Fagan 1845-8, book 17, 34-5 (sketch of lintelled entrance); OS Revision Name Book, sheet 107 (1847-50) 26; Allingham 1879, 109 ('Nearer Ballyshannon, and close to Fortwilliam, are the remains of a cromlech'); de Valera 1960, 110, DG. 30 (plan); Holly 1975-6, 193-5; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 22, no. 27; SMR 1987, 107:85; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; RMP 1995, 107:85. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

• DG107-086 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG107-087 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 27m. A circular area surrounded by a low earthen bank almost worn away in places. The interior is wet and marshy as is the surrounding land. It is situated in a valley between two hills. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, 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 Killeen.

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 Killeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Killeen · An Cillín

Area

916,410 m² (91.64 ha, 226.45 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Carrickboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrickboy electoral division: 389 people in 156 households; 86% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhanna, Camlin, Cherrymount, Clontyseer, Drumnagroagh, Lissacholly, Raheen

Placenames

Killeen 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.