Killooman
Killooman is a townland in the civil parish of Killarga, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Cill Úmáin.
- Area
- 292 ha
- 721 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 36,509 m² (3.65 ha, 9.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killooman, from 928 m² to 367,239 m² (36.72 ha, 90.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Killooman 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
No planning application touches the townland of Killooman 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Boleybrack Mountain SAC 002032
Recorded monuments
- LE016-035 Sweathouse
Description
Located on the S bank of a WNW-ESE stream, and c. 50m W of an abandoned farmhouse on the N bank. Marked only on the latest edition of the OS 6-inch map. A circular hollow (diam. c. 2m; H c. 3m) is visible in the stream bank, but no stonework survives. See attachment: • LE016-035----_1 Photo of sweathouse in 1992. G. Burns 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 update: 16 November 2022 Updated by: Gearóid Conroy
- LE016-036 Sweathouse
Description
Reported (5-10-2021) by Mr Aidan Harte, Project Co-ordinator, Leitrim Sweathouse Project. Indicated - though incorrectly named ‘Well’ - on the OS 25-inch map and indicated but not named on the later, Cassini edition of the OS 6-inch map. Another sweathouse (LE016-035----) stands c.650m to the ESE. In rough pasture, built into a steep SE-facing slope just S of a small, SE-flowing stream, c. 44m NE of a recently abandoned farmhouse. A drystone, rectangular structure (L 1.28m; Wth 1.1; H 1.62m) with a corbelled roof and an entrance at SE (Wth 0.42m; H 0.62m). See attached image: LE016-036----_1 View from south-east (Photo credit: D. McCarthy 5-1-2021) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 4 November 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killooman.
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 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, low (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 Killooman.
- 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 Killooman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Killooman · Cill Úmáin
- Area
- 2,919,668 m² (291.97 ha, 721.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killarga, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Killarga, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Altavra, Boleybrack, Coollegreane, Dergvone, Gowlaun, Greaghnaglogh, Tullintowell
- Placenames
- Killooman 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.