Killinure
Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish Cill an Iúir
- Area
- 217 ha
- 536 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 11,441 m² (1.14 ha, 2.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killinure, from 33 m² to 288,730 m² (28.87 ha, 71.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Killinure 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
12 Mar 2026N/a
Retain 2 No. Existing Agricultural Sheds and Stables and to include all Associated Ancillary Works
Retention · Laois County Council, 2660135
11 Mar 2026N/a
Retain 2 No. Existing Agricultural Sheds and Stables and to include all Associated Ancillary Works
Retention · Laois County Council, 2660132
12 Sept 2025Conditional
carry out renovation, extensions, alteration and partial demolition of an existing derelict two storey dwelling house, installation of a new septic tank, percolation area and bored well, upgrade of existing site entrance, boundary treatments and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560580
4 Sept 2025N/a
renovate, extend, alter and partially demolish an existing derelict two storey dwelling house, installation of a new septic tank, percolation area and bored well, upgrade of existing site entrance, boundary treatments and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560556
26 Aug 2024Conditional
renovate, make alterations and partial demolition of an existing single-story cottage along with the construction of a two-storey extension to the existing cottage, installation of a new septic tank system and percolation area along with alterations to an existing site entrance at Killinure, Mountrath, Co. Laois.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460494
17 Jul 2024Conditional
construct a bungalow, a domestic garage, a septic tank & percolation area, new entrance and all necessary and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460424
24 Aug 2023Conditional
construct new dwelling house, domestic shed, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360330
16 Mar 2018Conditional
construct a new dormer style bungalow with proprietary treatment system and to modify existing domestic entrance with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18159
6 Mar 2018N/a
construct a new dormer style bungalow with proprietary treatment system and to modify existing domestic entrance with all ancillary site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18127
1 Dec 2017Conditional
construct proposed dormer style dwelling, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank system, percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17647
11 Oct 2017Conditional
construct a part-one and part-two storey dwelling house with integrated garage; wastewater treatment unit and associated percolation area; alterations to the existing site entrance; and associated site development works and below ground on site
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17545
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
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killinure.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killinure.
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
- About 1 in 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killinure.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Killinure with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Killinure · Cill an Iúir
- Area
- 2,169,663 m² (216.97 ha, 536.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Offerlane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Upperwoods
- Electoral division
- Lacka, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lacka electoral division: 309 people in 96 households; 96% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drim, Drimmo, Lacka, Mountainfarm, Paddock, Rossadown, Rossalee, Roundwood, Whitefield
- Placenames
- Killinure 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.