Killeen
Killeen is a townland in the civil parish of Narraghmore, barony of Narragh and Reban East, Co. Kildare.
- Area
- 216.3 ha
- 535 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 7,668 m² (0.77 ha, 1.89 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential / Infill
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeen, from 122 m² to 640,702 m² (64.07 ha, 158.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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
- R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Narraghmore, Kildare · 2 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
18 Jun 2025Conditional
for the installation of 4 no. lighting poles 12m high with LED floodlights to illuminate the juvenile pitch, and retention permission is sought for 8 no. existing lighting poles 18m high and 8 no. lighting poles 16m high associated with the two senior pitches, onto which new LED floodlighting units will be installed. Retention permission is also sought for 13 no. streetlights 5.2m high located within the site and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560680
18 Oct 2024Conditional
of extensions to previously granted house (ref 72/1081) as follows (a) front single storey porch as constructed to existing house. (b) Side single storey garage as constructed to existing house. (c) Rear and side single storey extension as constructed to existing house and all associated site and development works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2461071
16 Oct 2024N/a
for extensions to previously granted house ref 721081 as follows (a) front single storey porch as constructed to existing house. (b) Side single storey garage as constructed to existing house. (c) Rear and side single storey extension as constructed to existing house and all associated site and development works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2461060
26 Mar 2024Conditional
of alterations to the elevations of an existing previously approved extension (Planning Ref. 17/735) to the rear of an existing thatched cottage which is a protected structure
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460263
19 Mar 2024N/a
of alterations to the elevations of an existing previously approved extension (Planning Ref. 17/735) to the rear of an existing thatched cottage which is a protected structure
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460237
11 Aug 2021Conditional
for a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, recessed residential entrance, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211156
18 Dec 2019Conditional
a new recessed agricultural entrance
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191403
18 Dec 2019Conditional
a part single storey with part two storey dwelling, domestic garage, recessed residential entrance, wastewater treatment system and raised sand polishing filter and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191404
31 Aug 2018Conditional
a dormer bungalow, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181072
19 Jul 2017Conditional
a single storey extension to side and rear of existing cottage which is a protected structure, re-thatching of existing cottage, Aswa Flow SBR wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17831
23 Jun 2017Conditional
for a single storey extension to rear of existing cottage which is a protected structure, re-thatching of existing cottage, Aswa Flow SBR wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17735
23 Feb 2017Conditional
to extend existing ball stop wall by 13m at 2.5m high and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 17193
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
- KD032-086 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 27m) visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the enclosure based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Anthony Murphy Date of upload: 19 February 2019
Architectural heritage
- House, farm house, 1700–1837 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two- or four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan. Hipped and pitched oat straw thatch roof, rope twist ridge with paired exposed hazel stretchers having exposed scallops, chicken wire-covered red brick Running bond dwarf chimney stack having stringcourse below capping, rendered coping to gable (west), and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed rubble stone battered wall to front (north) elevation; limewashed rendered surface finish (side elevations); limewashed roughcast surface finish to rear (south) elevation. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window opening (east) or pair of square-headed window openings (west) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set in own grounds.
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 Killeen, about 1 in 10 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 Killeen.
- 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 Killeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Killeen
- Area
- 2,163,477 m² (216.35 ha, 534.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Narraghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban East
- Electoral division
- Narraghmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 867 people lived in 257 households in the Narraghmore electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyadams, Ballynagussaun, Battlemount, Castlefarm, Lipstown Upper, Narraghmore, Narraghmore Demesne, Oldgrange
- 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.