Killeenoghty

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeenoghty, from 4,481 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres) to 268,821 m² (26.88 ha, 66.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Killeenoghty 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 Apr 2026Refused

  the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660411

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Tory Hill SAC 000439
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tory Hill 000439

Recorded monuments

• LI022-054 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level pasture with moderate views in all directions, 105m E of townland boundary with Ballygriffin, 156m W of townland boundary with Fearoe and 271m SE of townland boundary with Ballylusky. Present remains consist of slightly raised oval shaped area (25m N-S x 38m E-W) defined by relic stone wall from NW to E (dims. int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m; Wth 4.5m) and stone wall from E to SW, a farm track running N-S truncates site at W. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth. The monument is visible as a D-shaped tree-lined enclosure with interior clear of overgrowth on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 2020. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 4 August 2020

• LI022-057001 Church
  Description

  Medieval church of Cill Fhíonnachta / church of Fíonnachta, anglicised Killeenoghty stood in the centre of a rectangular-shaped graveyard (LI022-057002-) both of which lie in the S quadrant of a large oval-shaped ecclesiastical enclosure (LI022-057003-). Described in 1840 as 'Teampal na Sgeach is a local name signifying, "the church of the whitethorn bushes". It received this name because several large white thorn bushes stand here. These ruins are about 46 feet [14m] long and about 20 feet [6m] broad. The walls are razed to the ground. There is a small graveyard around them' (OSNB, 1085). The Ordnance Survey letters recorded that the name of this parish is in 'Irish Cill Fhionachta which signifies the Cell or Church of Fionachta [Fionshneachta], who is believed to have been a Saint' (OSL, 148). Westropp (1904-5, 381) recorded the following details on Killeenoghty; ‘Parish in Pubblebrian. Kyllanatan, 1201; Killanajan, Keilinoghtan, or Keilnaghan, separate from Killonaghan, 1410; "Ec. de Killynatan vendicabatur perprebendarium de Kylbekan sed fuit in man. Epi.," 1418; Kyllynoghtie, 1584 (O'Brien's Inq.); Killentaten, 1615 b.; Killinaten "mearing with Knockdrowmessill" (Petty, 69; D.S. (B) 21; Civil Survey, p. 5). Cillpionpneacca Called Teampull na Sceac, or "Church of the Bushes," 1840. Site - The foundations measured 46 feet [14m] by 20 feet [6m]; no other trace was found in 1840 (O.S.L. 14, E. 8, p. 381). Outline of church visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 January 2019

• LI022-057002 Graveyard
  Description

  Medieval church site (LI022-057001-) known locally as 'Teampull na Sceac', or 'Church of the Bushes' stood in the centre of a rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 33m N-S x 49m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate in centre of W wall. The church and graveyard lie in the S quadrant of a large oval-shaped ecclesiastical enclosure (LI022-057003-). The Ordnance Survey letters recorded that the name of this parish is in 'Irish Cill Fhionachta which signifies the Cell or Church of Fionachta [Fionshneachta], who is believed to have been a Saint' (OSL, 148). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 January 2019

• LI022-057003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Medieval church of Cill Fhíonnachta / church of Fíonnachta, anglicised Killeenoghty (LI022-057001-) stood in the centre of a rectangular-shaped graveyard (LI022-057002-) both of which lie in the S quadrant of a large oval-shaped ecclesiastical enclosure (LI022-057003-). Described in 1840 as 'Teampal na Sgeach is a local name signifying, "the church of the whitethorn bushes". It received this name because several large white thorn bushes stand here. There is a small graveyard around them' (OSNB, 1085). The Ordnance Survey letters recorded that the name of this parish is in 'Irish Cill Fhionachta which signifies the Cell or Church of Fionachta [Fionshneachta], who is believed to have been a Saint' (OSL, 148). Present remains consist of a large oval-shaped area (approx. dims. 154m NNE-SSW x 100m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Traces of a possible inner enclosing element may be visible as a curving field boundary running N off NE angle of graveyard wall. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 January 2019

• LI022-147 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture on a slight N-facing slope 95m S and 193m W of the townland boundary with Drumloughan South. Ecclesiastical enclosure (LI022-057003-) lies 430m to SW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. Shown as a small field and not as an antiquity on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a roughly circular-shaped area (20m E-W) defined by a bank mainly reduced to a scarp (Wth 6.1m; H 0.8m) from NW-N-E-ESE. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth. Field boundary intersects site from SW-W-NW. Known locally as a 'fort', the site was mostly levelled in the 1980’s with the interior levelled to compensate for slope. Levelled monument visible on the OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012 and Digital Globe orthoimage 2011-2013. Faint trace of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 2018 and 2020. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 14 August 2020

• LI022-266 Enclosure
  Description

  In NE corner of pasture field, low bank enclosing sub-circular area (c. 79m N-S x 74m E-W). Visible on Google Earth photograph taken 20/09/2020.See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Matt Kelleher based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload/revision: 15 March 2022

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killeenoghty.

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 5 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_911 (ZIP).

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 Killeenoghty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Killeenoghty · Cill Fhíonnachta

Area

818,747 m² (81.87 ha, 202.32 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenoghty, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Garrane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Garrane electoral division: 317 people in 108 households; 95% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycahane Upper, Ballygriffin, Ballylusky, Coologe, Dromloughan South, Fearoe, Garrane

Placenames

Killeenoghty 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.