Killyguire
Killyguire is a townland in the civil parish of Rathangan, barony of Offaly East, Co. Kildare.
- Area
- 257.4 ha
- 636 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 66,764 m² (6.68 ha, 16.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killyguire, from 1,841 m² to 762,468 m² (76.25 ha, 188.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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
No zone of a development plan covers Killyguire 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
2 Jun 2020N/a
(ABP Decision http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/307279.htm Case is due to be decided by 05/10/2020 by ABP) Application to An Bord Pleanála for Substitute Consent to regularise the status of historic peat extraction (and ancillary works) on the milled peat production bogs of the Allen Bog Group located in counties Offaly, Westmeath, Laois and Kildare
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 Killyguire.
Recorded monuments
- KD017-045001 Enclosure
Description
Visible on an aerial photograph (GSI N442-1) as the westernmost of three small, circular enclosures (est. diam. c. 20m); with a second enclosure (KD017-045002-) c. 150m to the NE and a third (KD017-045002-) c. 120m to the E. On level improved pasture with the surrounding field boundaries, as shown on the latest ed. (1910) of the OS 6-inch maps, removed by the landowner who recalled filling in a small pond in this area, but who had no knowledge of any monuments here. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD017-045002 Enclosure
Description
Visible on an aerial photograph (GSI N442-1) as the northernmost of three small, circular enclosures (est. diam. c. 20m); with a second enclosure (KD017-045001-) c. 150m to the SW and a third (KD017-045003-) c. 60m to the S. On level improved pasture with the surrounding field boundaries, as shown on the latest ed. (1910) of the OS 6-inch maps, removed by the landowner who remembers filling in a small pond in this area, but who had no knowledge of any monuments here. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD017-045003 Enclosure
Description
Visible on an aerial photograph (GSI N442-1) as one of three small, circular enclosures (est. diam. c. 20m); with a second enclosure (KD017-045001-) c. 120m to the W and a third (KD017-045002-) c. 60m to the N. On level improved pasture with the surrounding field boundaries, as shown on the latest ed. (1910) of the OS 6-inch maps, removed by the landowner who remembers filling in a small pond in this area, but who had no knowledge of any monuments here. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killyguire.
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 Killyguire, about 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2347 (ZIP).
- 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 Killyguire with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Killyguire
- Area
- 2,574,258 m² (257.43 ha, 636.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathangan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly East
- Electoral division
- Killinthomas, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 385 people lived in 121 households in the Killinthomas electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappanargid, Killinthomas, Lullybeg, Newtown, Rathangan
- Placenames
- Killyguire 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.