Killougher
Killougher is a townland in the civil parish of Balscaddan, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Cill Uachtair.
- Area
- 130.6 ha
- 323 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 7,346 m² (0.73 ha, 1.82 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killougher, from 212 m² to 192,281 m² (19.23 ha, 47.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 30 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Jun 2025Grant permission
Permission sought for a single storey extension to side of two storey
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0534
20 Dec 2024Grant permission
The development will consist of a 10-year permission for a solar farm
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/1182E
24 Jun 2024Grant permission
Planning permission soughtfor two storey dormer extension to side
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0323
15 Jul 2020Grant permission
Permission for a bungalow dwelling & detached garage to incude the ins
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0339
25 Jan 2019Grant permission
Permission is sought for the construction of a single storey extension
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19B/0014
18 Jun 2013Grant permission
New single storey extension to accommodate a Family Flat
Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0419
13 Feb 2012Refuse permission
To construct a new one and a half storey house complete with secondary
Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0030
12 Dec 2011Refuse permission
The construction of a storey and a half dwelling with a detached garag
Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0446
25 Feb 2011Refuse permission
To construct a new 1½ storey house complete with secondary treatment s
Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0062
11 Feb 2011Grant permission
Material alterations of the existing front and rear parapet to the mid
Permission · Fingal County Council, F11B/0025
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killougher.
Recorded monuments
- DU004-060 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
A series of enclosures which may be centered on a single circular enclosure 9diam. c. 76m) visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). See attached drone aerial images courtesy of Ian Lennon Compiled by: David O’Connor Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 27 July 2023
- DU004-095 Earthwork
Description
Located in a large arable field the N boundary of which forms the townland boundary with Hazardstown, stream 60m to W which also forms townland boundary. Enclosure (DU004-060----) 580m to NE. Cropmark of two conjoined earthworks (DU004-096/097----) 115m to SSE. Sited on top of low hillock defined by a 200ft contour on Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Positive cropmarks visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 21/07/2021 indicate the presence of a palimpsest of subsurface features, enclosures and linear cropmarks in this large field. In N quadrant of the field there is the cropmark of a sub-rectangular shaped earthwork (ext. dims. 32m E-W x 37m N-S; int. dims. 19m E-W x 15m N-S) defined by two widely spaced cropmarks transected at W by a linear cropmark. Outline of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 21/07/2021. Cropmark of possible levelled moated site. See attached drone aerial images courtesy of Ian Lennon and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Ian Lennon Date of upload: 27 July 2023
- DU004-096 Earthwork
Description
Located in a large arable field the N boundary of which forms the townland boundary with Hazardstown, stream to W also forms townland boundary with Kitchenstown. Cropmark of rectangular-shaped earthwork (DU004-095----) 115m to NNW. Positive cropmarks visible on aerial image and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 21/07/2021 indicates the presence of a palimpsest of subsurface features, enclosures and linear cropmarks in this large field. In the centre of the field there is the cropmark of a circular shaped area (diam. c. 22m) defined by a cropmark which is transected at S by the cropmark of a sub-circular shaped area (DU004-097----). Outline of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 21/07/2021. Cropmark of possible conjoined enclosures. See attached drone aerial images courtesy of Ian Lennon and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Ian Lennon Date of upload: 27 July 2023
- DU004-097 Earthwork
Description
Located in a large arable field the N boundary of which forms the townland boundary with Hazardstown, stream to W also forms townland boundary with Kitchenstown. Cropmark of rectangular-shaped earthwork (DU004-095----) 140m to NNW. Positive cropmarks visible on aerial image and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 21/07/2021 indicates the presence of a palimpsest of subsurface features, enclosures and linear cropmarks in this large field. In the centre of the field there is the cropmark of a circular shaped area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a cropmark which is transected at N by the cropmark of a sub-circular shaped area (DU004-096----). Outline of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 21/07/2021. Cropmark of possible conjoined enclosures. See attached drone aerial images courtesy of Ian Lennon and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Ian Lennon Date of upload: 27 July 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killougher.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Killougher, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killougher.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Killougher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Killougher · Cill Uachtair
- Area
- 1,305,741 m² (130.57 ha, 322.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balscaddan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Balscadden, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 743 people lived in 229 households in the Balscadden electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curragh East, Haystown, Hazardstown, Kitchenstown, Priorland, Whitestown, Winnings
- Placenames
- Killougher 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.