Killaha

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killaha, from 245 m² to 179,094 m² (17.91 ha, 44.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Killaha 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.

• 25 Jun 2025Conditional

  (a) construct an extension to the existing premises which will contain a new kitchen, entrance lobbies and internal layout changes (b) elevational changes including all ancillary services and areas

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560542

• 27 Feb 2025Conditional

  Full planning permission to construct a new dwelling house with attached carport, detached garage, install a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2560126

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE067-057 Church
  Description

  In the N half of a graveyard (KE067-057001-). A rectangular church (int. 17.6m E-W; 7.6m N-S) built of random rubble sandstone with roughly shaped quoins and limestone detail around the opes. The church is entered through a recent door ope with a concrete lintel at the W end of the S wall, with a single chamfered-edged jamb remaining. In 1841, a pointed door surround formed by chiselled limestone was described (OSL, 187). A round-headed niche built into the wall adjacent to the door contains a stoup (diam. 0.24m; D 0.13m) hollowed out of a single block of sandstone. There is an overgrown splayed window with a blocked ogee-headed light (Wth 0.19m; H 0.55m) at the E end of the S wall. A narrow lintelled window embrasure at the W end of the S wall has a narrow rectangular light (Wth 0.1m). There are the remains of a window (Wth 1.4m) with chamfered jambs in the E wall. In 1841, the E window was described as having two lights (OSL, 187). The overgrown W gable has a rectangular splayed window embrasure with a rectangular light c. 2.5m above ground level. Wall-presses occur at the E end of the S wall, the S end of the E wall and the W end of the N wall. Corbels at the W end of the N and S walls indicate a possible gallery at the W end. The interior is used as a burial ground and the headstones date mainly to the 20th century though there is a medieval cut-stone slab on the ground at the W end of the S wall. This is the remains of the late medieval parish church of Killaha, in ruins for 250 years (ITA). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE067-057001 Graveyard
  Description

  In pasture, on a NE-facing slope in the valley of the Flesk River. The graveyard is roughly rectangular in plan (50m N-S; 30m E-W) and enclosed by a random rubble stone wall with vertical stone coping. The SE corner is rounded. The oldest inscribed headstones are at N (the earliest is dated 1793) around the church (KE067-057----); several uninscribed grave-markers and chest-tombs are also in this area. More recent burials occur at S. The entrance gate is in the W wall. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE075-016 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a low rise, in the grounds of Killaha House (Bary 1994, 152). A four-storey rectangular tower (15.08m E-W; 11.1m N-S) built of random-rubble limestone bonded by a gritty lime mortar. It stands to full height except for the NE corner which has collapsed. The spiral stairs, which gave access to the first, second and third floors was situated in the NE corner but only its basal courses now survive. Each floor was divided between a main chamber to the W and a subsidiary chamber to the E. All the internal floors were wooden with supporting stone corbels, except for the rounded vault which covers the guardroom. The tower is entered through a ground-floor doorway in the E wall. This has lost most of its surround though a yett-hole remains in the S jamb. The entrance lobby (4.49m E-W; 1.73m N-S) gives access to a guardroom to the S, and to the base of the stairwell and the main ground-floor chamber to the N. The lobby is defended by a double-cross gun loop in its W wall. The guardroom has a small window in its E wall and a gun loop in the NE corner. The main ground-floor chamber (8.07m E-W; 7.34m N-S) is lit by a single window in the W wall and two in the S wall. These have lintelled embrasures with splayed sides; similar widow opes occur throughout the tower. A large fireplace (L 2.8m; D 1.43m), with a stone-lined domed bread oven (diam. 0.8m) on its E side, occurs at the W end of the N wall. The main first-floor chamber is lit by a window in the S, N and W walls. The W window has a flat-headed light and the N window has an external hood-moulding over a missing light. A fireplace at the S end of the W wall has chamfered jambs. The main second-floor chamber has a window at the W end of the S wall, whose rectangular light has two mullions and is covered by a hood-moulding. There is a small window at the N end of the W wall, and another window at the W end of the N wall- at this level much of the N wall is missing. A narrow ope in the NW corner leads to a bartizan. All that survives of this bartizan is part of its sloping stone roof and a pair of tapering corbels on either side. There is a fireplace in the S wall with a cut-limestone surround; moulded jambs rise to rounded corbels which supported a lintel, now missing, though part of a moulded cornice survives- the corbels have panels with geometric designs. The main third-floor chamber has two surviving window opes at the W end of the N and S walls. A fireplace, with a similar limestone surround to that on the floor below, occurs in the wall. There is also an attic floor with a low gable on the W wall. It has a small fireplace to the N, and a narrow window to the S, of a central plain rectangular chimney stack. The wall survives to wall-walk level but none of the crenellations survive. A tall square chimney stack rises from the centre of the S wall. Due to the collapse of the NE corner only the S end of the subsidiary chambers survive. At first and third floor levels, but not on the second floor, a doorway connected to the main chamber. The second floor chamber has a short passage in its SE corner leading to a corner bartizan that is now missing. There was a 4th floor subsidiary chamber and its S wall survives rising higher than the rest of the S wall- this also has a small gable. The tower is late 16th/early 17th-century in character with its rectangular mullioned windows, absence of vaults and numerous fireplaces. It was a castle of the O'Donoghue of Glenflesk (Barrington 1976, 216). It is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map as a tall tower with a lower and wider extension on its side; there are now no evident remains of this extension. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE075-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on top of a knoll, with views restricted by a deciduous wood. In the 1990s a fort was recorded near Mrs Margaret O'Donoghue's house (CPCK 2002, vol. 4). This possible rath has been levelled but the summit of the knoll is level and roughly oval (c. 30m N-S; c. 20m E-W). It is covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_291 (ZIP).

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

Name

Killaha · Cill Átha

Area

1,134,532 m² (113.45 ha, 280.35 acres)

Civil parish

Killaha, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Flesk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Flesk electoral division: 426 people in 157 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brewsterfield, Curraglass, Gortahoosh, Shronaboy

Placenames

Killaha 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.