Killahan

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killahan, from 250 m² to 283,709 m² (28.37 ha, 70.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Killahan 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.

• 19 Aug 2025Conditional

  retain dwelling as constructed within revised site boundaries and permission to decommission existing septic tank and install mechanical wastewater treatment system with sand polishing filter, and all associated site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560717

• 29 Jun 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, DOG KENNELS AND DOG RUN WITH MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22692

• 22 Jul 2020Conditional

  RETAIN (A) EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WHICH IS SERVED BY AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION ONTO THE REAR AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING WITH ATTIC DEVELOPMENT, WHILE ALSO CONVERTING PART OF THE ATTIC OF THE EXISTING DWELLING FOR BEDROOM PURPOSES AND (C) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL A NEW MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT WITH SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20656

• 23 Mar 2020N/a

  (A)RETAIN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WHICH IS SERVED BY AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES; (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION ON TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING; (C) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL A NEW MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT WITH SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY WORKS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 20278

• 23 Apr 2019N/a

  (A) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION ONTO THE REAR AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, (C) PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER SYSTEM AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY WORKS ON SITE

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 19410

• 8 Apr 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A GARAGE TO THE REAR OF MY DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19358

• 5 Apr 2017Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING AND SHED, POSITION OF DWELLING , SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALL WITHIN REVISED BOUNDARIES AND ALSO TO RETAIN DWELLING WITH MODIFIED CONDITIONS (CONDITION NO.2 OF PLANNING REG NO. 2551/07)

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17298

• 20 Feb 2017N/a

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING AND SHED, ALSO POSITION OF DWELLING, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALL WITHIN REVISED BOUNDARIES

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 17145

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 Killahan.

Recorded monuments

• KE015-107 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This large circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 OS map and is situated WNW of Tonaknock stone cross (878). It does not appear on the 1916 edition map and no trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 576. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Killahan.

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

Name

Killahan · Cill Laithín

Area

1,426,567 m² (142.66 ha, 352.51 acres)

Civil parish

Killahan, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Killahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killahan electoral division: 395 people in 146 households; 89% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore South, Ballincloher West, Ballymacaquim East, Tonaknock

Placenames

Killahan 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.