Killeheen
Killeheen is a townland in the civil parish of Kilscannell, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cill Eichín.
- Area
- 140.6 ha
- 347 acres
- Land parcels
- 94
- registered freehold, median 4,052 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeheen, from 18 m² to 132,917 m² (13.29 ha, 32.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Killeheen 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
17 Sept 2026N/a
a new dwelling house, detached garage, waste water treatment system, system percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 26213
20 Feb 2026Conditional
partially constructed dwelling house permitted under planning reference number 05/3683 and planning permission to complete the said dwelling house, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660182
24 Mar 2025N/a
partially constructed dwelling house permitted under planning reference number 05/3683 and planning permission to complete the said dwelling house, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560237
4 Feb 2025Conditional
A dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works. Outline Planning Ref. No. 21/856
Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2522
11 Oct 2024Conditional
a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works. Planning Permission is also sought for a detached domestic garage. Ref. No. of Outline Permission 21/814
Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24397
3 Sept 2021Conditional
demolition existing shed, entrance and concrete block and plaster boundary wall. Erect an extension to the existing dwelling and a new entrance and boundary wall to the west side of the site and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211240
17 Jun 2021Conditional
dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 21856
10 Jun 2021Conditional
a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21814
28 May 2021Conditional
a dwelling house, entrance, boundary walls, an onsite waste water treatment system and all associated works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 21747
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 Killeheen.
Recorded monuments
- LI029-052 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on SSE-facing slope below brow of limestone hillock, immediately S of public road. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killeheen.
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 Killeheen, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_514 (ZIP).
- 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 Killeheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Killeheen · Cill Eichín
- Area
- 1,405,756 m² (140.58 ha, 347.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilscannell, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilscannell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 612 people lived in 185 households in the Kilscannell electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardbohil, Ballinlyny, Islandboy, Reens East
- Placenames
- Killeheen 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.