Killaree

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killaree, from 2,594 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 507,150 m² (50.72 ha, 125.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Killaree 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.

• 31 Jul 2026Conditional

  for the change of use of a greyhound kennels to a commercial dog boarding kennels, together with associated fencing and site works at the site situated

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2660483

• 10 Nov 2023Conditional

  to retain alterations to existing farm access road to include for road widening to 4 metres and surface improvements to accommodate the movement of farm machinery servicing farm lands

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2360513

• 6 Oct 2023Refused

  to construct a single-storey dwelling house with roof terrace, new effluent treatment system, new site entrance, bored well and all associated site development works. This application will also include for the demolition of existing sub-standard sheds and a derelict dwelling house (in-ruin)

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360445

• 2 Oct 2023N/a

  TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ROOF TERRACE, NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, BORED WELL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360435

• 13 Mar 2023Conditional

  1.Continuance of use of the existing permitted quarry site and all existing ancillary site and welfare facilities, storage areas, and provision for crushing and screening of unsuitable dimension stone rock, authorised by the previous grants of planning permissions P. Ref. 04/1867 (which superseded P. Ref. P538/96) and P. Ref 16/474, which are due to expire on the 1 January 2025; 2. Lateral extension of the existing quarry void by c. 5.3 hectares to give an overall quarry footprint of c. 9.3 hectares. The final extraction depth will be c. 56m AOD similar to the existing quarry floor level permitted by P. Ref. 04/1867; 3.Provision of screening berms to proposed quarry extension boundary; 4.Provision of a new site maintenance shed (c.10m x 16m = 160m²) adjacent to the existing processing factory with an overall height of c. 11.2m; 5.Restoration thereafter to a combination of ecological habitat site and agricultural lands; 6.All associated site works within an overall application area of c. 15.8 hectares. The proposed operational period is for 25 years plus 2 years to complete restoration (total duration sought 27 years). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of this planning application.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360097

• 29 Nov 2021Conditional

  for development of a single-storey rear extension in lieu of extension as previously granted under planning register reference 20/100; together with associated site works including construction of a car port

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21972

• 22 Nov 2021N/a

  for development of a single-story rear extension in lieu of extension as previously granted under planning register reference 20/100; together with associated site works including construction of a car port, all

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21960

• 7 Oct 2021Refused

  Retention of existing building as constructed, and Permission for the use of the retained building as a dwelling house, alterations to the building, a new wastewater treatment system and all site ancillary works. This application includes for Permission for change of use of existing farm house to a permanent farm storage building

  Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21843

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  for construction of a livestock underpass and effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21231

• 21 Feb 2020Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension measuring 78.1 sq. m. to rear of existing dwelling house

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20100

• 13 Feb 2020Conditional

  retention of existing building as constructed, and permission for the use of the retained building as a dwelling house, alterations to the building, a new waste water treatment system and all site ancillary works. This application includes for permission for change of use of existing farm house to a permanent farm storage building

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2084

• 15 Nov 2017Conditional

  for proposed two-storey residence detached single storey garage, septic tank and percolation area, access drive and vehicular entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17749

• 25 Jul 2017Refused

  Retention of offices as constructed, parking area and existing septic tank and Permission to upgrade the existing percolation area and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17496

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 Killaree.

Recorded monuments

• KK014-046 Souterrain
  Description

  At a break between steep upper slopes and lower cultivated slopes on the W side of a small stream valley. Indicated as 'cave' on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map. This may be a natural cave or could be a souterrain. The 'cave' could not be identified with certainty when visited in 1987. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 June 2020

• KK014-048 Burial
  Description

  Listed as 'Cemetery site' in the RMP (1996). A number of extended inhumations in unlined graves discovered in gravel debris during quarrying in 1971. The burials were in rows and were oriented E-W. The site was extremely disturbed and the exact number of burials was unclear. Finds included an iron knife and a decorated whetstone. A sample of human remains was dated to 1445+/- 40 BP or AD550-657. Black Castle (KK014-049----) lies c. 300m to the S and a church (KK014-050003-) and ecclesiastical enclosure (KK014-050001-) are c. 300m to the NE. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 70-72). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 6 February 2013

• KK014-049 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Set by a small stream in very marshy area at a point where a small N-S river valley narrows onto a near gorge. The castle commands the valley at this point. The sides of the valley rise steeply to the E, S and W, while to the N the valley opens out to a flat reclaimed floor. The Ordnance Survey letters (1839) record, 'part of the east side of a Castle called the Black Castle in the same townland; the wall was nine feet [c. 2.7m] thick' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 203). Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 269), describes it as, 'now a broken fragment, [which] was the residence of the Rochefords till the Cromwellian confiscations'. The 25-inch OS map depicts Black Castle as a roofless rectangular building (dims. c. 11m x c. 4.5m) orientated NE-SW, with gables to the NW and SE. In 1987 the only visible remains consisted of a massively thick wall sandwiched between two derelict farm buildings. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 December 2016

• KK014-050001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On the flat floor of a small N-S stream valley, the sides of which rise quite steeply, in grassland. There are very poor views except N and S along the valley. The OS Letters (1839) describe, 'a large Rath in the Townland of Killeree from which the townland is said to have had its name. It is ninety yards [82m] in diameter, the mound about seven feet [2.1m] in height; it was surrounded by a trench, traces of which remain on the south east. The inside is nearly level with the top of the mound. There are several little heaps of stones and thorns scattered over the surface and the neighbours affirm that these heaps mark the sites of stone builidings and say farther that there are three of the Kings of Ireland buried in it, whence the name Kileree or the Cell of the Kings' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 203 (67-8). Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 268-9) gives a translation of the townland name as 'Cill Láithrigh, the Church of Laithreach' and states that the, 'ancient name of the townland was Laithreach, which appears as "Lavertach" in a document of 1247. The Kyle, or church, has long disappeared'. The enclosure consists of a large, roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 85m) defined by earthen bank (Wth c. 4m; int H 1.5m; ext H 2.5m) except at the NE where it has been removed. There is no evidence of the fosse or 'trench' mentioned by the OS Letters in the SE quadrant, but it may have been filled in. The entrance (Wth 4m) in the SE quadrant is likely to be original. There are raised features in the interior but no pattern could be discerned. It is possibly that these are the remains of an early medieval church (KK014-050003-) and other buildings (KK014-050002-) and that the surrounding enclosure has ecclesiastical associations. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 4 June 2020

• KK014-050002 Building
  Description

  On the flat floor of a small N-S stream valley, the sides of which rise quite steeply, in grassland. There are very poor views except N and S along the valley. The OS Letters (1839) describe, 'a large Rath in the Townland of Killeree from which the townland is said to have had its name. It is ninety yards [82m] in diameter, the mound about seven feet [2.1m] in height; it was surrounded by a trench, traces of which remain on the south east. The inside is nearly level with the top of the mound. There are several little heaps of stones and thorns scattered over the surface and the neighbours affirm that these heaps mark the sites of stone builidings and say farther that there are three of the Kings of Ireland buried in it, whence the name Kileree or the Cell of the Kings' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 203 (67-8). Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 268-9) gives a translation of the townland name as 'Cill Láithrigh, the Church of Laithreach' and states that the, 'ancient name of the townland was Laithreach, which appears as "Lavertach" in a document of 1247. The Kyle, or church, has long disappeared'. Within a large roughly circular enclosure (KK014-050001-) there are raised features but they do not form any discernible pattern. It is possibly that these are the remains of an early medieval church (KK014-050003-) and other buildings (KK014-050002-) and that the surrounding enclosure has ecclesiastical associations. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 4 June 2020

• KK014-050003 Church
  Description

  On the flat floor of a small N-S stream valley, the sides of which rise quite steeply, in grassland. There are very poor views except N and S along the valley. The OS Letters (1839) describe, 'a large Rath in the Townland of Killeree from which the townland is said to have had its name. It is ninety yards [82m] in diameter, the mound about seven feet [2.1m] in height; it was surrounded by a trench, traces of which remain on the south east. The inside is nearly level with the top of the mound. There are several little heaps of stones and thorns scattered over the surface and the neighbours affirm that these heaps mark the sites of stone builidings and say farther that there are three of the Kings of Ireland buried in it, whence the name Kileree or the Cell of the Kings' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 203 (67-8). Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 268-9) gives a translation of the townland name as 'Cill Láithrigh, the Church of Laithreach' and states that the, 'ancient name of the townland was Laithreach, which appears as "Lavertach" in a document of 1247. The Kyle, or church, has long disappeared'. Within a large roughly circular enclosure (KK014-050001-) there are raised features but they do not form any discernible pattern. It is possibly that these are the remains of an early medieval church (KK014-050003-) and other buildings (KK014-050002-) and that the surrounding enclosure has ecclesiastical associations. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 4 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Killaree, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killaree.

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.

No address of the register names Killaree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Killaree · Coill Áirí

Area

2,652,083 m² (265.21 ha, 655.34 acres)

Civil parish

Odagh, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Odagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

486 people lived in 161 households in the Odagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydaniel, Bonnetstown, Cloranshea, Dunningstown, Keatingstown, Kingsland East, Knockgrace, Lushkinnagh, Simonsland, Threecastles

Placenames

Killaree 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.