Killeen

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeen, from 247 m² to 203,087 m² (20.31 ha, 50.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Killeen 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.

• 14 Jun 2023Conditional

  permission for change of use of existing agricultural lands to use as truck parking area, upgrade of entrance and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2360052

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  for proposed construction of a bungalow dwelling, detached garage, timber post & rail fence, proprietary treatment system & percolation area as per submitted drawings and all ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21194

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 Killeen.

Recorded monuments

• LF020-033 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On the gentle E-facing slope of a low ridge. Described in 1976 (SMR file) as a circular earthwork (c. 47m E-W; c. 45m N-S) defined by a slight earthen bank; a small section at W had been dug away. The interior was roughly equally divided by a NE-SW field boundary. The enclosure is now defined by a scarp (H 0.5-1.3m). It has been levelled from S-SSW-SW where it is skirted by a pathway. Possibly an ecclesiastical enclosure as it is known locally as a children's burial ground (LF020-033001-), and a pillar stone (LF020-033002-) and a cross-inscribed stone (LF020-033003-) are associated. (Crawford 1913, 326; 1926, 124-5; English 1971, 147) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF020-033001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Associated with a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (LF020-033----). It is locally believed that the enclosure is the site of a children's burial ground, a suggestion reinforced by the townland name. However, no grave-markers are visible. (Crawford 1926, 124-5) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

• LF020-033002 Pillar stone
  Description

  Within the SE half of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (LF020-033----). Described by Crawford (1926, 124-5) as a tall pillar stone 'spike-like' in appearance, located 'on the top and rather to the south' of the children's burial ground (LF020-033001-). It was set into a rectangular socket within a circular flat base stone (diam. c. 0.9m; T 0.25m) that was broken into two pieces. These were drawn by du Noyer (1864, vol. VI (20)). A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted the socket stone but no visible surface trace of it or the pillar stone survives. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF020-033003 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  Originally located within the SE quadrant of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (LF020-033----). Crawford (1913, 326; 1926, 125) recorded a cross-inscribed stone at the base of a low mound of stones within the enclosure. The stone (H 0.90m; Wth 0.42m; T 0.25m) was originally rectangular in plan. On one face are two incised Greek crosses within incised circles, which are connected by a linear bar. Both crosses and the bar are defined by incised bands. Now in the National Museum of Ireland (see DU018-182----). (English 1971, 147) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 June 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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).

No address of the register names Killeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Killeen · An Coillín Crúbach

Area

2,961,023 m² (296.1 ha, 731.68 acres)

Civil parish

Rathreagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Foxhall, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Carnan, Carrigeen, Clontymullan, Corrabola, Crossea South, Foxhall, Foxhall Glebe, Killinagh (Co. Westmeath), Sleehaun, Sleehaun (sankey)

Placenames

Killeen on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.