Killeshin

298 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeshin, from 6 m² to 256,302 m² (25.63 ha, 63.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential 1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 125 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Residential 2 (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 30 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Educational and Institutional (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 15 Apr 2026N/a

  construct 1 new 4 bed house. this application includes a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) report and is further to Planning Application 25/84 and Permission 19/535

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2622

• 25 Mar 2026N/a

  Construct 1 new 4 bed house at The Quakers Killeshin Co Laois. The application includes an NIS report and is further to planning application 25/04 and permission 19/535

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2616

• 16 Mar 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY SIDE EXTENSION TO EXISTING TWO STOREY DETACHED HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660140

• 13 Mar 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY SIDE EXTENSION TO EXISTING TWO STOREY DETACHED HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660137

• 12 Mar 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY SIDE EXTENSION TO EXISTING TWO STOREY DETACHED HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660133

• 10 Feb 2026Conditional

  construct a Gym to the front of the existing Killeshin GAA Clubhouse and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660067

• 17 Sept 2025Refused

  extend duration of planning permission Ref. 19/535

  Extension of duration · Laois County Council, 2584

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  Retain a storey and a half dwelling with an adjacent shed and a vehicular entrance and upgrade the existing septic system and install a waste water treatment system

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560455

• 18 Jul 2025N/a

  upgrade the existing septic system and install a waste water treatment system

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560442

• 15 Jul 2025N/a

  to upgrade the existing septic system and install a waste water treatment system.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560432

• 9 Jul 2025Refused

  retain the garage/storage as built and retain the garden recreation room and a metal storage unit as built

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2550

• 3 Jul 2025Conditional

  remove ditch line on both sides of the road. Installation of 1.2meter V Mesh fencing along road side and installation of road kerbing

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560402

• 2 Jul 2025N/a

  remove a ditch line on both sides of the road. Installation of 1.2meter V Mesh fencing along road side and installation of road kerbing

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560394

• 24 Jun 2025N/a

  remove the ditch line on both sides of the road, construct a 1.2meter Pallistrade fencing along the road, new pedestrian access points to both pitches at the proposed pedestrian crossing and a pedestrian ramp to existing pitch

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560370

• 20 Mar 2025Refused

  Retain the garage/store as built and to retain the garden recreation room and a metal storage unit as built at number 39 Sruth Na Ghleanna Killeshin Co. Laois. This is further to permission planning reference 22/181

  Retention, 3 homes · Laois County Council, 2525

• 11 Mar 2025N/a

  construct a four-bedroom storey and half dwelling with a shed, a vehicular entrance and a septic tank with a percolation area

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560115

• 26 Feb 2025Conditional

  Retain 4 houses as built including materials change to all 4 houses at the front elevations and the rear extensions to house no's 1-4 at Rath Mor, Killeshin Co. Laois. This is further to permission register reference 21/551

  Retention, 4 homes · Laois County Council, 2515

• 20 Feb 2025N/a

  The 4 houses as built including materials change to all 4 houses at the front. Elevations and the rear extensions to house no's 1 & 4 at Rath Mór Killeshin co.Laois. This is further to permission register reference 21/551.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2513

• 13 Feb 2025N/a

  retain the garage/store as build and to retain the garden recreation room as built.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 259

• 7 Jan 2025Conditional

  construct a single storey extension to the front, side & rear elevations of our existing dwelling and all associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560005

• 10 Dec 2024Conditional

  construct a single storey extension to the Southeast elevation of my existing dwelling and all associated site works at 32 Rathglen, Killeshin, Co. Laois

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460750

• 7 Aug 2024N/a

  retain the existing rear elevation the changes to the front elevation(brickwork and new roof profile) side elevations (new window - bay removed) and rear elevation (new window and new profile of the house. This is further to Planning Register Reference 16/475 and 22/348

  Retention · Laois County Council, 24112

• 7 Aug 2024Conditional

  retain the existing rear extension, the garage, including a new access and the changes to the front elevation (Brickwork) side elevations (new windows) and rear elevation (new sliding door and windows). This is further to Planning Register Reference 16/475 and 22/348

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 24114

• 26 Jul 2024N/a

  retain the changes to the front elevation (brickwork), side elevations (new windows, bay removed) and rear elevation (new double door and windows and new roof profile

  Retention · Laois County Council, 24105

• 26 Jul 2024N/a

  retain the existing rear elevation , the changes to the front elevation (brickwork and new roof profile), side elevations (new window bay removed and rear elevation (new window and new roof profile)

  Retention · Laois County Council, 24107

The 25 most recent of 69 applications.

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 Killeshin.

Recorded monuments

• LA032-020001 Castle - motte
  Description

  Situated on a ridge with commanding views of the surrounding countryside. Medieval church ruins (LA032-020002-) and graveyard (LA032-020004-) 110m to NW. Present remains consist of a flat-topped conical-shaped earthen mound (summit diam. c. 18m; base diam. c. 33.8m, H c. 8m) the base of which has been scarped. The mound is covered in briars and thorn bushes making detailed examination impossible. Traces of low barely discernible earthworks in field surrounding the base of the motte which may be remains of a possibly bailey area. Placed on the Register of Historic Monuments on the 5th of February 1975. 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. Updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 March 2015

• LA032-020002 Church
  Description

  National Monument No. 115. A monastery in the territory of Uí Bhairrche was reputedly founded here by St Comghán before 500 AD (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 39). Comghán abbot of Glenn Uisean [Killeshin] died in the second half of the sixth century (ibid. 39). He was the son of Diarmuid of the Dál gCais of Thomond (Ó Riain 2011, 220). The saint’s feastday falls on the 27th of February (Fitzgerald 1910, 187). The Martyrology of Donegal records his family pedigree as ‘Comdhan [Comghán], of Glenn Uissen, son of Diarmaid, son of Deghadh, of the race of Cormac Cas, son of Oilill Oluim; and Ethnee, daughter of Feidhlimidh, son of Tighernanch, was his mother’. The first reference to Killeshin in an the annals dates from 843 when the death is recorded of ‘Aedhan of Gleann-Uisean [Killeshin]’ (AFM, 465). In 874 the annals recorded the death of ‘Diarmaid, Abbot of Gleann-Uissean [Killeshin]’ (AFM, 521). In 1024 the annals recorded that a ‘slaughter was made of the men of Munster by Donnchadh, son of Aedh, in Gleann-Uisean [Killeshin], through the miracles of God and Comhdan [Comghán]’. In 1041 the annals recorded that ‘Gleann-Uisean was plundered by the son of Mael-na-mbo, and the oratory was demolished, and seven hundred persons were carried off [as prisoners] from thence, in revenge of the plundering of Fearna-mor, by the son of Brian, and Murchadh, son of Dunlaing, and in revenge of his brother, Domhnall Reamhar’ (AFM, 841). The Ordnance Survey letters of 1838 recorded that ‘about 40 feet [12.2m] of the eastern part had been converted into a modern church 120 years before (c. 1718); that at this period the choir arch of the original church was pulled down and the greater part of the south wall removed’ (Crawford and Leask 1925, 86). Leask (1925, 86) stated ‘that many of the ornamented stones of the choir arch might be seen built into the modern wall, and that the south wall of the modern church contained two small rude windows, and a pointed one which might be as old as the fourteenth century. The last was evidently in the pre-existing portion of the chancel wall and probably matched the present east window; it is now destroyed. O’Donovan also mentioned that the south wall (of the ancient church), then nearly destroyed, had been standing within the memory of an old man, not many years dead, who said that it contained two windows with semicircular heads, narrow on the outside and broad inside; these were placed directly opposite to two other windows of the same style and form, then remaining in the north wall’. The church was described in 1910 as following ‘The west gable end and a portion of the north wall are all that remain of the building of this period. Up in the west gable is a narrow, round-headed window of cut granite, surmounted by a triangular pediment; a similar window, somewhat larger, is in the north wall; both of them internally are round-arched, with a wide splay, The south wall is completely down; while the east end, with its ogee-headed window of two lights, belongs to a far later date, when a Protestant church stood on this portion of the old site. At the north corner of the west wall is a pilaster, or narrow buttress, which was always a feature in these early Irish churches. The western doorway is one of the best specimens in Ireland of the Hiberno-Romanesque art; it is of four orders, and elaborately carved with a great variety of patterns, the second arch being ornamented with representations of animals and birds; while the keystone of the outer arch consists of a human head in relief, its moustache and beard being arranged in peculiarly curled locks. Each of the eight pillars is topped by a human head, some clean-shave, others with twisted moustaches and curled beards and whiskers; the hair over the brow is in some cases waved, and in others fringed with curls. The features of the face are badly damaged; but judging by that on the keystone, above mentioned , the nose was more flat than prominent’ (Fitzgerald 1910, 194-7). Present remains consist of the W end of nave (int. dims. 7.47m N-S; wall T 1m) and E end of chancel (int. dims. 6.04m N-S) survive of this twelfth-century church (overall int. L c. 27.07m) composed of sandstone with granite quoins. The W gable (ext. Wth 13m' wall T 1.11m) with antae at NW angle, contains an elaborately decorated Romanesque doorway which has four receding orders with capitals bearing human heads with intertwined hair. The arch surmounted by a hood, is decorated with animal and foliage motifs, and its keystone, carved in relief, also bears a human head. Two inscriptions are visible; one on N side reads 'a prayer for Diarmait, King of Leinster' (Harbison 1970, 140). A granite window, pointed externally and round-headed internally, lies above doorway; a similar but larger window is visible in the adjoining section of N wall (int. L 11.9m). The S end of the adjoining S wall (int. L 5.4m) has a later buttress. The later chancel (ext. Wth 8.25m) has a slight base batter. The original E window has been replaced by a square two-light ogee-headed window, probably dating to the sixteenth century. An aumbry is visible in SE corner. Surviving sections of the adjoining N wall (int. L 5.2m) and S wall (int. L 1.4m) are featureless. Some cut and dressed stone lie in NE and SE angles. Modern burials have been placed within the church. A round tower (LA032-020003-) to NW of church was destroyed in 1703 (Fitzgerald 1910, 189, 198). To N of doorway lies a circular granite font (LA032-020005-). (Crawford and Leask 1925, 83-94; O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 257-64) 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. Updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 March 2015

• LA032-020003 Round tower
  Description

  A round tower to SW of church (LA032-020002-) (Crawford and Leask 1925, 84) was destroyed in 1703 (Fitzgerald 1910, 189, 198). Fitzgerald (1910, 189) recorded that on 'Monday ye 8th Day of March 1702/3, that day the Steeple of Killeshan undermined and flung down by one Bambrick, imployed by Captain Wolseley, in Three Days Works. 1702/3, 8th March at 3 of the clocke in ye afternoon ye Steeple fell to ye ground, being measured it was 105 feet [32m] high, or in length'. A second reference to the round tower dating from 1709 recorded that 'near the foot of the Mountain stands the old church of Killeshen, of which is a very old building. Here lately stood over again the Doore of the Church, one of the old round steeples which, I am told was very high old and well built, so that when the owner of the place had it fallen, it came to the ground in one solid piece, and was not even by the fall against the ground so broke, but that several pieces yet remain sticking together, so that you can easily discover what this building was. It plainly appears to be of the same building & age with the adjacent Church (LA032-020002-)'. No visible surface remains of any round tower in NW quadrant of graveyard (LA032-020004-). 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. Updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 March 2015

• LA032-020004 Graveyard
  Description

  Rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 34m N-S; 53m E-W) enclosed by an 18th century stone wall with medieval church ruins (LA032-020001-) standing in N quadrant of graveyard. Gateway with 12th century cut stone incorporated into base of wall on W side located at N end of W wall of graveyard. Stone stile located at E end of S wall of graveyard. Datestone incorporated into S wall of graveyard located off centre to W bears an inscription which reads 'Pray for James Fitzgerrald who built this wall and planted the trees 1787'. Unlocated 17th century graveslab (LA032-020009-) in S quadrant of graveyard. Headstones date to post 1700 AD and some un-inscribed grave markers are also visible. 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. Updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 March 2015

• LA032-020005 Font
  Description

  Located immediately W of Killeshin church (LA032-020002-) close to NW angle of church. A circular, granite font (diam. c. 0.8m) with cone shaped basin and aperture in the centre with a small hole on the rim of the font which may have been related to a cover. A narrow incised line visible halfway down runs around the outside of the font (Crawford and Leask 1925, 83-94; O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 257-64). According to Fitzgerald (1910, 199) 'formerly a bulb-shaped granite font lay sunk in the ground on the north-east side of the church (LA032-020002-) ruins; it is now placed at the western wall of the church. The interior of the bowl is cone-shaped, and of such rude workmanship that it strikes one it was intended to hold a metal vessel or was lined with lead. The aperture is in the centre; on the rim is a circular hole, and beside it a small socket 4½ inches [0.11m] long, which both probably had some connexion with the fittings of a lid or cover'. The font was described in 1925 as measuring '29 inches (0.73m) in diameter and 22 inches (0.55m) in height. It is undecorated except that the exterior is divided into three broad swelling bands, the funnel-shaped basin is unusual, its breadth and depth are alike 16 inches (0.4m). The base is hollowed and connected with the basin by a narrow aperture; a small socket, 1 inch (0.02m) in diameter and 2 inches (0.04m) deep, in the upper surface of the rim, probably held the hinge of a lid' (Crawford and Leask 1925, 94). LA032-020005-_05.jpg attached drawing of section of font at Killeshin taken from Crawford and Leask 1925, 93. 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. Updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 March 2015

• LA032-020006 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Reference to a possible castle here (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 262). No visible surface remains. St Dermot founded an Early Christian church (LA032-020001-) here but the patron is St Comhdan or Comgan who is commemorated on 27th of February. Killeshin was plundered and the oratory demolished in 1041, and it was burnt in 1077 (FitzGerald 1910, 185-205). (Crawford and Leask 1925, 83-94; O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 257-64) 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

• LA032-020009 Graveslab
  Description

  Unable to locate recumbent 17th century graveslab located S of Killeshin church (LA032-020002-) in S quadrant of graveyard (LA032-020004-). According to Fitzgerald (1910, 198) ‘the oldest tombstone appears to be dated 1688; it is a flat slab on the south side of the churchyard and was erected to the memory of John Dodd’s and Bryan Hogan’s families’. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 March 2015

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Holy Cross, church/chapel, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay Georgian Gothic style Catholic church, c. 1820, with tower, corner turrets on octagonal plans and gabled sacristy projection. Renovated, c. 1985, with interior remodelled.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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_2358 (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 Killeshin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Killeshin · Cill Uisean

Area

2,893,709 m² (289.37 ha, 715.05 acres)

Civil parish

Killeshin, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Ballickmoyler, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballickmoyler electoral division: 848 people in 296 households; 92% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballickmoyler, Cappalug, Clonmore, Cloonaloo, Curragh, Lambstown, Shanvally, Springhill, Towlerton

Placenames

Killeshin 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.