Killinaparson

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killinaparson, from 614,793 m² (61.48 ha, 151.92 acres) to 2,711,863 m² (271.19 ha, 670.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Killinaparson 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Killinaparson in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC 000412
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments

• LA002-014 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  Whitethorn bush marked as Fairy Bush on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA006-001 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  The site, in a clear-felled area of forest, lies just uphill from a stream on the W slope of Barradoos Mountain which is on the N side of the Slieve Bloom range. A stone, 2.30m long, 70cm thick and 70cm high, aligned N-S, seems to be set. Alongside to the W are four prostrate stones measuring 1.50m to 2.10m in maximum dimension and a fifty partly-buried. There may have been some form of megalithic structure here but its nature is notknown. According to a local story the stones were dislodged by the soldiery in 1798. (de Valera and O Nuallain 1972, 97, No. 1.). 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

• LA006-002 Enclosure
  Description

  In upland afforested area, not located. Depicted on the 1910 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a mound with enclosing feature (max. diam. c. 35m E-W), possibly a barrow. Not located. 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 Killinaparson.

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 Killinaparson, 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 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 Killinaparson.

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 Killinaparson with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Killinaparson · Coillín an Phearsúin

Area

3,322,520 m² (332.25 ha, 821.01 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmanman, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Castlecuffe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

423 people lived in 136 households in the Castlecuffe electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahimmy, Ballynahown, Barlahan (Co. Offaly), Castlecuffe, Coolacrease (Co. Offaly), Garryhedder, Sheskin (Co. Offaly)

Placenames

Killinaparson 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.