Killinbore
Killinbore is a townland in the civil parish of Taghshinny, barony of Shrule, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is An Coillín Bodhar.
- Area
- 70 ha
- 173 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 5,084 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killinbore, from 190 m² to 148,582 m² (14.86 ha, 36.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Killinbore 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
27 Aug 2026N/a
detached living accommodation ancillary to main dwelling and retention of farm general storage buildings and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660267
18 Dec 2025Conditional
an existing self-service farm shop structure together with existing polytunnels all of which are used in conjunction with existing onsite fruit farm. Revised plans now also proposes to seek retention permission for existing 5 no. mobile homes onsite together with increasing the site boundary outlined in red so as to facilitate the proposed installation of a suitable onsite wastewater treatment system with associated percolation area and ancillary works
Retention · Longford County Council, 2560303
17 Feb 2022Conditional
for 1 no. single storey residential dwelling; with associated carport, garden shed, approved wastewater treatment system and percolation area to EPA standard and creation of new vehicle entrance
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2229
4 Dec 2019Conditional
proposed construction of 1 no. bell mouth entrance with access road so as to facilitate access into existing forestry plantation for the removal of timber and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19314
21 Aug 2019Conditional
proposed construction of an attached sun room extension to the south-western façade of existing dormer bungalow type dwelling house and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19217
13 Jul 2017Conditional
for proposed dormer type dwelling, detached garage, new entrance, boundary wall/fence, new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 17193
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 Killinbore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killinbore.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, having single-storey lean-to extension to the northeast gable end. Pitched slate roof with slightly overhanging eaves having timber brackets. Central rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Raised rendered verge to east gable end. Rubble limestone walls, formerly rendered, with some roughcast rendered sections remaining to rear elevation (southeast). Square-headed window openings with mixed two-over-two pane and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation (southeast), having timber lintels and limestone sills. Timber casement windows to front elevation (northwest). Central square-headed door opening to front elevation (northwest) with timber battened door having plain overlight. Outbuilding to rear (southeast) with pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble limestone walls and square-headed openings. Located adjacent to small country lane, to the east of Barry and to the southwest of Legan.
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 Killinbore, about 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1794 (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 Killinbore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Killinbore · An Coillín Bodhar
- Area
- 700,063 m² (70.01 ha, 172.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghshinny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shrule
- Electoral division
- Kilglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 730 people lived in 280 households in the Kilglass electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacshane, Ballynamanagh, Colehill, Killeenboy, Knockagh, Ratharney, Streamstown
- Placenames
- Killinbore 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.