Killyfea

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killyfea, from 17 m² to 251,401 m² (25.14 ha, 62.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Killyfea 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.

• 10 Aug 2021Conditional

  erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 21160

• 25 May 2020N/a

  erect storey & a half type dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2075

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 Killyfea.

Recorded monuments

• LE029-022001 Burial ground
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying position in an undulating landscape with a small N-S stream from Lough Donogher c. 40m to the W. This is a subrectangular area (dims 63m N-S; 24m E-W), defined by an earthen field bank, containing 19th- and 20th-century headstones. Outside the perimeter at W is a square enclosure (dims 10.5m N-S; 7m E-W) defined by wire fences and coniferous trees containing a drystone-built subcircular well (dims 1.3m E-W; 1m N-S; D 1m) dedicated to St Patrick, which is open to the S and still venerated. A pattern with rounds may have continued into the 1930s as recorded in the Schools Manuscripts, for which see this web-page accessed on 18/04/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4662105/4657246 (MacNamee 1954, 544) 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

• LE029-022002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located outside the perimeter of Cavan burial ground (LE029-022001-) at W is a rectangular enclosure (dims 10.5m N-S; 7m E-W) defined by wire fences and coniferous trees containing a drystone-built subcircular well (dims 1.3m E-W; 1m N-S; D 1m) dedicated to St Patrick, which is open to the S and still venerated. A pattern with rounds may have continued into the 1930s (IFC Schools’ Collection, vol. 0757, 242-3). (MacNamee 1954, 544.) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 April, 2017 Amended; 11 December 2019

• LE029-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a small drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered circular platform (diam. 31m N-S; 28.5m E-W; H 0.3m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.9m; ext. H 0.55m) at S which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m) elsewhere, and an external fosse (Wth of base 1.2m; D 0.1m) which is largely represented by a band of rushes. The original entrance is not identified, and the monument is surrounded by field banks. 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 Killyfea.

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 Killyfea, 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 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 Killyfea.

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 Killyfea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Killyfea · Coillidh Feá

Area

2,211,965 m² (221.2 ha, 546.59 acres)

Civil parish

Cloone, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Aghavas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

321 people lived in 127 households in the Aghavas electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Aghalough, Agharann, Corraneary, Dromore, Drumgunny

Placenames

Killyfea 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.