Killaconner

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killaconner, from 538 m² to 70,492 m² (7.05 ha, 17.42 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Killaconner 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Killaconner in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumcah, Toprass And Cortial Loughs 001462

Recorded monuments

• LH006-042 Souterrain
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Local tradition of a 'cave' in a field known as the 'Cave Field'.

• LH006-101001 Church
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Fragmentary remains of small church which was completely levelled between 1966 and 1985. It was featureless in 1985 and defined only by heaps of rubble.

• LH006-101002 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with church site (LH006-101001-) and contained two cross inscribed slabs (LH006-101003- and LH006-101004-). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• LH006-101003 Cross-slab
  Description

  A small tapering flagstone bearing a deeply incised, roughly executed, plain Latin cross and bordered by a thin, lightly incised line (max. L 0.8m, Wth 0.33m). In 1966 the slab was to be seen lying against the wall of Killaconner church which was subsequently levelled and at that time the stone was removed to Iniskeen Museum. The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007

• LH006-101004 Cross-slab
  Description

  Found on the surface of the church site (LH006-101001-) shortly before 1970 and deposited in the National Museum of Ireland. A roughly rectangular stone broken at the top and bottom (present L 32cm; Wth 24.5cm; T 6-7cm). Decoration consists of an equal-armed cross set in a circle, with arms extending from circle and decorated with semi-circles. The decoration was executed by pecking the design in double lines. Drawn and described by Raftery (CLAJ 1970, 113, Fig. 2). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 23 November 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Killaconner, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Killaconner with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Killaconner · Cill Chonaire

Area

435,899 m² (43.59 ha, 107.71 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Barronstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

752 people lived in 255 households in the Barronstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh (Boltons), Annagh (McCanns), Drumsinnot, Edenagrena, Gorteen, Toprass

Placenames

Killaconner 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.