Killeen
Townland in the civil parish of Leitrim, barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway; in Irish An Cillín
- Area
- 111.9 ha
- 277 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 4,113 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeen, from 137 m² to 229,919 m² (22.99 ha, 56.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Aug 2026N/a
for renovation and proposed amendments to an existing derelict house/shed building which includes proposing a change of use of the shed area to dwelling use by extending into the attached barn/shed. The Permission sought is to include demolition of derelict annex to the building and the removal of a nearby slatted shed/haybarn and all proposed associated services including an upgrade to wastewater tank and percolation
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661409
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 Killeen.
Recorded monuments
- GA116-063 Children's burial ground
Description
In undulating grassland, on a trigonometrical point with extensive views in all directions. An elongated, grass-covered stony mound (14m N-S; 8.5m E-W) is truncated along the E side where it is steepest (H 2.6m). Field-clearance boulders are visible on the NW side. No grave-markers are visible but the site is locally regarded a children's burial ground. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 August 2019 The following image has been uploaded: GA116-063----_01.jpg
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Killeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Killeen · An Cillín
- Area
- 1,119,120 m² (111.91 ha, 276.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Leitrim, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Leitrim, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Leitrim electoral division: 553 people in 179 households; 87% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowkeel, Dalystown Demesne, Grallagh, Kilmacrah, Leitrim More
- 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.