Killasona

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killasona, from 57 m² to 164,771 m² (16.48 ha, 40.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Killasona 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.

• 25 Jul 2023Conditional

  proposed retention and completion of partially constructed development which consists of a new single storey type dwelling house, new domestic detached car garage/fuel store. New septic tank and associated percolation area. Completion of new site access, new gates, piers & wing walls and all ancillary site works. All of which was previously granted planning permisision under PL04/301 on site

  Permission, 2 homes · Longford County Council, 2398

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 Killasona.

Recorded monuments

• LF016-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 46m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.7m; H 0.1-0.6m), a wide deep intervening fosse (Wth 6.8m; D 1.4m) from W-NW-N and an outer bank (Wth 4-3.8m; H 0.5m). The inner bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from SW-WSW and has been largely levelled at NW and at N. The rath is divided into unequal portions by a modern NE-SW roadway. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012

• LF016-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. A raised oval area (c. 39m WNW-ESE; c. 30m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.9m; max. H 0.3m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.4m). The latter is identifiable only at S and W. From NW-N-NE the bank has been levelled but its outline is still identifiable. From NE-E-ESE the rath has been partially destroyed due to the construction of a modern NW-SE roadway. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF016-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a natural terrace above the flood-plain of a stream to the SW. This raised D-shaped area (50m NW-SE; 37.5m NE-SW), with a straight SW side, is enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.5-5.9m; H 0.6-1.25m), a shallow intervening fosse (Wth 6.8-8m; D 0.3-0.65m) from WNW-N-SSE and an outer bank (Wth 4-4.5m; H 0.4-1.05m). Elsewhere the defining element is a steep, natural drop (H 3-5m) to the flood-plain below. A break (Wth 5m) in the bank at NE probably marks the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012

• LF016-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a terrace with a stream a short distance to the SW and W. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised subcircular area (c. 43m N-S; c. 40m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. The original entrance was at E. The ground level rose from the perimeter to the NW of the centre of the interior where there was a small platform. The rath has since been quarried away. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF016-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised subcircular area (c. 34m E-W; c. 30m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. The original entrance was at E. The rath has since been levelled and only the outline of its perimeter, marked by a low scarp (H 0.3-0.6m), is identifiable at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF016-025 Earthwork
  Description

  In demesne lands of Killasona House located immediately to E. Cropmark of circular-shaped bivallate earthwork (diam. c. 46m) visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Could be the cropmark of a designed landscape feature associated with Killasona House. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 16/03/2021 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 11 July 2022

Architectural heritage

• Killasona House, country house, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey country house, built c. 1770 and altered c. 1810, now disused. Pitched natural slate roof with cut stone eaves course, rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west) and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone sills having three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to second storey, Wyatt windows with six-over-six pane central lights and two-over-two pane sidelights to ground and first floors, and central round-headed window opening at first floor level, having three-over-six pane timber sliding sash window, all with stone sills. Central round-headed door opening to main elevation (north) having carved limestone door surround with blocks to base, fluted keystone, moulded lintel and flanking pilasters, and having timber panelled door with recessed panels. Original fanlight now missing. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the south of Abbeylara. Rendered garden wall to front garden with rendered gate piers (on square-plan). Wrought-iron flat bar gate to west gable end giving access to complex of outbuildings (13401603) to the rear.

• Killasona House, farmyard complex, 1800–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings associated with Killasona House (13401602), built c. 1820 and c. 1860,and altered c. 1930, arranged around two yards to the rear (south) of main house. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to the east side of complex (built c. 1820 and altered c. 1930) to north having pitched (south end) and hipped (north end) natural slate roof with rendered verges to gable ends, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls (exposed to east and south elevations) and square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows and battened timber doors. External concrete staircase to centre of front elevation (west) having access to first floor level. Single-bay two-storey block attached to north end of east range having hipped slate roof, tall rendered brick chimneystack, roughcast rendered walls and recent square-headed carriage arch with corrugated-metal sliding door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the south end of east range, facing north, having pitched slate roof with brick eaves course and a rendered chimneystack to the west gable end, rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Detached five-bay single-storey outbuilding to the southwest corner of north yard having pitched natural slate roof with rendered verges and a rendered chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods, coursed squared rubble stone walls, square-headed door openings with brick voussoirs and timber battened doors, and a segmental-headed carriage arch to the east end of the main elevation (north) having brick voussoirs and timber battened double-doors. Rubble stone boundary wall to the east side of yard. Entrance gates to the northwest side of yard comprising a pair of squared and roughly dressed rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having modern gate. Attached four-bay single-storey outbuilding, c. 1860, to the west side of yard to south having pitched slate roof with brick eaves course and a raised rendered verge to the south gable end, squared and roughly dressed rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with red brick voussoirs to the north end of main elevation (east), and having three segmental-headed carriage arches to the south end of the main elevation (east) having red brick voussoirs. Attached three-bay single-storey outbuilding, c. 1860, to the south side of south yard having pitched slate roof with brick eaves course and a raised rendered verge to the south gable end, squared and roughly dressed rubble stone walls, and having three segmental-headed carriage arches having red brick voussoirs. One carriage arch retains timber battened double-doors, another now infilled. Wrought-iron flat bar gates to the southwest corner of south yard. Remains of walled garden on sub rectangular-plan to the southeast of complex having rubble limestone boundary walls. Located to the rear of Killasona House, and to the south of Abbeylara.

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 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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killasona.

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 Killasona with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Killasona · Cill Ó Sona

Area

2,198,217 m² (219.82 ha, 543.19 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Firry, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Aghabrack, Aghamore, Ballymaurice, Castlenugent, Kilfintan, Lisnaneane, Queensland, Rinroe, Rossan, Toneen

Placenames

Killasona 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.