Kilkneedan

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilkneedan, from 1,037 m² to 424,235 m² (42.42 ha, 104.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Kilkneedan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Kilkneedan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE058-015 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In pasture, on top of the W-facing slope of a ridge. In the 1840s it was recorded that a small disused burial ground was attached to Kilcredane Church (KE058-015001-) (OSNB, Kilcredane, no. 1, 20). This burial ground is known locally as a children's burial ground. There are no visible remains of any graves or grave-markers in the vicinity of the church. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE058-015001 Church
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a ridge. The collapsed remains of a two-phase church. The remains consist of the low loose rubble limestone walls (H c 0.6m) of the E end of the church (int. 7.4m N-S; 3.76m E-W) with the upstanding remains of the N and S wall (H c. 2.5m; L c. 3m) at the W end. The low walls of a slightly wider addition to W (9.55m E-W; 6.7m N-S) give the church a nave and chancel layout. The remains of the upstanding S wall at the E end butts onto and overlaps the external wall of the earlier church by c. 1m. There is a splayed window ope embrasure at the E end of the S wall. The level interior is overgrown at the E end with lots of loose rubble stones scattered about. During a subsequent inspection in 2003, it was noted that the wall to the W of the window embrasure had collapsed. According to local information, there was an altar at the E end. There is a children's burial ground (KE058-015----) in the immediate vicinity of the church. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE058-015002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture, to E, S and W of Kilcredane Church (KE058-015001-). Sub-rectangular area (dims. c. 45m WNW-ESE; c. 25m NNE-SSW) defined by scarp (Wth 2.5m; H 0.25m) ENE->W; appears to represent an inner enclosure in close proximity to the church. A potential outer enclosure is traceable as a sub-rectangular area (dims. c. 90m WNW-ESE; c. 60m NNE-SSW) defined by scarp (Wth 3.5m; H 0.2m) ENE->S and SW->WNW; Curvilinear cropmark WNW->NW evident upon modern aerial photography (Bing 2015). Fosse (overall Wth 5.0m; basal Wth 1.0m; D 0.1m) traceable ENE->SE. Interior of both enclosures is generally level and grass covered. Both enclosures are bisected by a field boundary (long-axis NNE-SSW) which is to immediate E of Kilcredane Church. Not visible in field to N due to dense overgrowth of vegetation. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 9 October 2015

• KE058-235 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  This potential feature was reported by Michael Connolly, County Archaeologist, Kerry County Council. It was identified by him during the course of an assessment of a 40 square mile area for the purpose of choosing a road route in 2000 to the north of Killarney. In level, impenetrable coniferous plantation, at base of a steep N-facing slope; Gweestin River to N. Access not gained. Reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as the cropmark of a barrow. No potential feature evident at this location upon historic mapping. This area is obscured by forestry upon modern aerial photography indicating that the area of the potential feature may have been planted (OSi 2010; Bing 2015).

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Kilkneedan.

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 Kilkneedan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Kilkneedan · Cill Chríodáin

Area

435,989 m² (43.6 ha, 107.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcredane, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Ballyhar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyhar electoral division: 200 people in 74 households; 86% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydeenlea, Cloonydonigan Upper, Coolbaun, Glebe, Leamnaguila

Placenames

Kilkneedan 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.