Killaphort
Killaphort is a townland in the civil parish of Drumreilly, barony of Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Coill an Phoirt.
- Area
- 86.8 ha
- 214 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 17,752 m² (1.78 ha, 4.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killaphort, from 141 m² to 89,116 m² (8.91 ha, 22.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Killaphort 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 Jun 2026Conditional
construct a slatted/dry agricultural livestock shed and all ancillary works.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2660154
19 Dec 2025Conditional
1. To construct a two storey type domestic dwelling. 2. To construct a domestic garage. 3. To construct a new site entrance. 4. To construct a wastewater treatment system to current EPA code of practice and all ancillary works.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560315
13 Oct 2020Conditional
erect a 4 bay single slatted shed with attached creep area, underground slurry storage tank and all associated site works and to create a new entrance onto the public road
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 20177
25 May 2020Refused
(a) erect a 4 bay slatted shed with attached creep area, underground slurry storage tank and all associated site works and; (b) to create a new entrance onto the public road
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2077
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killaphort.
Recorded monuments
- LE025-053 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the bottom of the NW-facing slope of a drumlin with a small NE-SW section of a N-S stream c. 70m to the NW. This is a grass-covered oval platform (dims 42m N-S; 35m E-W; H 0.8-1.2m) defined by a scarp planted with mature trees and with a ramp entrance (Wth 2.2m) at WSW. There is no visible fosse and the monument is circumscribed by a lane NE-S. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE025-054 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a drumlin in mixed woodland. This is a subcircular area (int. dims 26.5m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m at N to 1.6m at E) W-N-E which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.9-1.3m) elsewhere, and an external fosse (Wth of top 3-4.5m; Wth of base 1.5-2m; D 0.4m) which is curtailed by field banks NW-N-SE. The entrance (Wth 3.6m) is at E. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killaphort.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Killaphort, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killaphort.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Killaphort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Killaphort · Coill an Phoirt
- Area
- 867,714 m² (86.77 ha, 214.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumreilly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carrigallen
- Electoral division
- Garadice, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 586 people lived in 237 households in the Garadice electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corramahan, Cully, Drumreilly, Garadice
- Placenames
- Killaphort 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.