Kilcoran

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcoran, from 1,169 m² to 561,343 m² (56.13 ha, 138.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Kilcoran 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.

• 24 May 2019Conditional

  construct and complete, for a period of 5 years, a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 67.6 hectares, to include two single storey, 38KV electrical substation buildings & associated infrastructure within a compound, inverter station modules, spare parts container, solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works including vehicular access works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18674

• 30 Oct 2018N/a

  construct and complete, for a period of 5 years, a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 67.6 hectares, to include two single storey, 38KV electrical substation buildings & associated infrastructure within a compound, inverter station modules, spare parts container, solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works including vehicular access works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18660

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 Kilcoran.

Recorded monuments

• LA028-057003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A circular area (diam. c. 43m) defined by a scarp from SW-E and elsewhere by an earthen bank (Wth c. 2.8m, int. H c. 0.3m, ext. H c. 1.4m). Remains of an external fosse (Wth c. 3.5m) are visible. Tradition of church site (LA028-057001-) in interior. Described by Carrigan as 'The church (LA028-057001-) of Kilcoran stood a quarter of a mile from Rathdowney, within what is now commonly known as "Kilcoran Rath". The rath (LA028-057003-) is a circular mound 65 yards in diameter, rising irregularly from 2 to 8 ft. in height, with an almost obliterated rampart, and the usual fosse. Running east and west, partly through the centre of the rath, there are traces of a curved earthen fence, which divided it into two almost equal parts. In the southern division human bones were dug up in 1889, and appears to have been the site of an ancient churchyard (LA028-057002-). The church stood in the northern division. Its walls have been gone for ages, but the foundation still marked by the withered grass in very dry summers, show that they were about 30 ft. long; a very large limestone marks the position of the west gable. The tradition of a church having been ever here has almost died out.' (Carrigan 1905,vol. 2, 341). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_1913 (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 Kilcoran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Kilcoran · Cill Chuaráin

Area

1,209,802 m² (120.98 ha, 298.95 acres)

Civil parish

Rathdowney, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Rathdowney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathdowney electoral division: 1,317 people in 524 households; 64% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolnaboul West, Creelagh, Levally, Rathdowney, Rathpiper South

Placenames

Kilcoran 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.