Killyfad

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killyfad, from 11 m² to 195,339 m² (19.53 ha, 48.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Killyfad 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.

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  the erection of lighting poles with lighting & all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2521

• 19 Sept 2022Conditional

  to extend the existing cemetery including new boundaries, boundary planting, caretakers shed, lighting and general landscaping and siteworks

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22222

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 Killyfad.

Recorded monuments

• LF014-008 Moated site
  Description

  On a prominent NW-SE ridge in otherwise wet, low-lying pasture. A raised approximately oval area (33.1m NNE-SSW; 32.4m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarp (H 1.1m), an intervening wide, deep, waterlogged fosse (Wth 4.8-5.9m; D 2m) and a massive bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.3m; H 2.1m). An entrance gap at E appears to be modern. The enclosing elements are overgrown with scrub. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 3 May 2012

Architectural heritage

• Saint Oliver Plunkett's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Roman Catholic chapel, built 1826 and altered c. 1830, 1928 and in 1976. Comprises single-bay gabled nave to the southwest, gabled single-bay transepts to the northwest and southeast, and a shallow chancel to the northeast. Recent single-bay single-storey extension to southwest elevation of transept to northwest. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge crestings, raised render verges with quasi kneeler stones to gable ends, and cross finials to transept gable apexes and to chancel gable apex (east). Round-headed open work bellcote over west gable apex having cross finial over. Painted roughcast rendered walls over rendered plinth course. Cut stone date plaque to the southeast side of nave, dated 1826. Round-headed window openings having painted moulded rendered surrounds and painted stone sills with lattice stained glass windows. Figurative stained glass windows to east elevations of transepts, flanking chancel. Round-headed doorway to the southeast elevation of nave and to the southwest elevation of southeast transept having rendered surrounds, replacement timber doors and plain glass overlights. Interior reordered c. 1976 with modern alter goods. Round-headed blind arch to the chancel gable. Set back from road in own grounds to the northeast of Longford Town with graveyard to the north with mainly upstanding twentieth-century grave markers. Chapel surround on three sides by rendered boundary walls, low split concrete block wall to road-frontage to the southeast.

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

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Killyfad · An Choilleach Fhada

Area

840,925 m² (84.09 ha, 207.8 acres)

Civil parish

Killoe, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Cloonee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloonee electoral division: 767 people in 271 households; 80% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygarve, Carrickglass Demesne, Creeve, Drumhaughly, Farraghroe, Killoe Glebe, Kiltyreher

Placenames

Killyfad 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.