Kilvahan

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilvahan, from 438 m² to 445,186 m² (44.52 ha, 110.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Kilvahan 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 Kilvahan 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilvahan.

Recorded monuments

• LA018-017001 Church
  Description

  An old ruined church , possibly associated with St Meathon, stood within an almost circular graveyard until the early 1900s, however, not a trace of it survives (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 188-89). Situated on a slope in a low-lying marshy area. A raised burial ground (LA018-017002-) with no evidence of a church. All headstones visible date from the eigtheenth century onwards. Modern wall surrounds burial ground. No early remains visible. The Poor Law Guardians built a wall around the graveyard which was originally enclosed by a fosse. Headstones postdate 1700. Architectural fragments from the church are incorporated in a nearby tuck mill. Described in the History of Queens County as 'The graveyard (LA018-017002-) of Kilvahan occupies an elevated situation and its surrounded by a nearly circular fosse (LA018-017003-), which was formerly entered by an old road leading from the adjoining village of Moneeenafullagh, the little marshy spot of blood' on the direction from Ballyknockan Castle. The passage of funeral processions to the cemetery, at present, leads along a headland of the adjacent field to the boreen, where traces of the old road (LA018-017004-) are to be seen. Of late a wall of enclosure has been built around the cemetery by the Poor Law Guardians. Formerly and indeed to the beginning of the present century, an old ruined church was to be seen within the burial enclosure of Kilvahan. From a perfect local knowledge of the spot, the writer has not been able to trace a single vetsige of those ancient walls' (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 189). 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

• LA018-017002 Graveyard
  Description

  Reference to church and graveyard here , possibly associated with St Meathon, stood within an almost circular graveyard until the early 1900s, however not a trace of it survives (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 188-89). Situated on a slope in a lowlying marshy area. A raised burial ground with no evidence of a church (LA018-017001-). All headstones visible date from the eighteenth century onwards. Modern wall surrounds burial ground. No early remains visible.No visible surface remains. Described in the History of Queens County as 'The graveyard of Kilvahan occupies an elevated situation and its surrounded by a nearly circular fosse (LA018-017003-), which was formerly entered by an old road leading from the adjoining village of Moneeenafullagh, the little marshy spot of blood' on the direction from Ballyknockan Castle. The passage of funeral processions to the cemetery, at present, leads along a headland of the adjacent field to the boreen, where traces of the old road (LA018-017004-) are to be seen. Of late a wall of enclosure has been built around the cemetery by the Poor Law Guardians. Formerly and indeed to the beginning of the present century, an old ruined church (LA018-017001-) was to be seen within the burial enclosure of Kilvahan. From a perfect local knowledge of the spot, the writer has not been able to trace a single vetsige of those ancient walls' (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 189). D-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 39m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall as indicated on current ed OS 6-inch map. 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

• LA018-017003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Reference to an enclosure here (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 188, 189). No visible surface remains. Described in the History of Queens County as 'The graveyard of Kilvahan occupies an elevated situation and its surrounded by a nearly circular fosse, which was formerly entered by an old road leading from the adjoining village of Moneeenafullagh, the little marshy spot of blood' on the direction from Ballyknockan Castle. The passage of funeral processions to the cemetery (LA018-017002-), at present, leads along a headland of the adjacent field to the boreen, where traces of the old road (LA018-017004-) are to be seen. Of late a wall of enclosure has been built around the cemetery by the Poor Law Guardians. Formerly and indeed to the beginning of the present century, an old ruined church (LA018-017001-) was to be seen within the burial enclosure of Kilvahan. From a perfect local knowledge of the spot, the writer has not been able to trace a single vetsige of those ancient walls' (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 189). 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 Kilvahan.

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 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 Kilvahan.

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

Name

Kilvahan · Cill Mheáin

Area

507,176 m² (50.72 ha, 125.33 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolmanbane, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Cullenagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cullenagh electoral division: 151 people in 50 households; 90% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyheyland, Cullenagh, Pass

Placenames

Kilvahan 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.