Killally
Townland in the civil parish of Ballybarrack, barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth; in Irish Cill Alaidh
- Area
- 45.8 ha
- 113 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 3,348 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning
- O1
- Strategic Reserve
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killally, from 481 m² to 377,277 m² (37.73 ha, 93.23 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C3Business and Technology (Office, business/technology park and related)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Killally 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.
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 Killally.
Recorded monuments
- LH007-077 Burial ground
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 Enclosed rectangular area of rough ground with a few stones marking graves. (CLAJ 1936, 354).
- LH007-108001 Enclosure
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 Circular cropmark ring suggesting levelled enclosure, associated with souterrains (LH007-108002- and LH007-108003-).
- LH007-108002 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 Situated on summit of E-W ridge. Discovered during ploughing in 1987 and reclosed. Two lintels of drystone-built passage, completely blocked by collapse, were seen in sides of modern entrance gap. Traces of a fosse, visible as a cropmark at ground level, are recorded (see enclosure LH007-108001-). This souterrain and souterrain LH007-108003-, 18m to the SE, were probably originally within this enclosure. Tradition of souterrain in adjacent field. (See LH007-109----).
- LH007-108003 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 Situated on S slope of E-W ridge, 18m SE of souterrain LH007-108002-. Discovered during ploughing in 1987. Modern entrance at SE end of passage. The souterrain consists of a drystone-built passage (L 9.9m, Wth 0.8m, H 1m) sloping from N-S-SE. The passage is deliberately blocked at the N end, where it is directly under the modern field fence. Original entrance most probably at this point. Traces of enclosure (LH007-108001-) visible as surface cropmark. Tradition of further souterrain downslope to S in same field (see LH007-109---).
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay two-storey former farmhouse, built c. 1860. Rectangular-plan with single-storey flat-roofed porch to west, square-profile single-storey flat-roofed bay windows, square-profile two-storey hipped roof bay to east, attached house built c. 1830 to north. Pitched and hipped slate roofs, red clay crested pierced ridge tiles, clay hip tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, decorative terracotta chimney pots, rendered eaves course, moulded cast-iron gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes. Unpainted pebbledash walling to west, painted pebbledash walling to east, smooth rendered plinth; unpainted smooth rendered walling to square-profiled bay windows, projecting plinths. Square-headed window openings, unpainted moulded render surrounds, granite sills, one-over-one timber sliding sash windows; shouldered moulded surrounds to bay windows, multiple-paned timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening, painted timber porch, timber panelled double doors flanked by engaged paired Tuscan pilasters with sidelights. Set within gravelled drive, lawn to west, cast-iron railings on rendered plinths. Former farmyard to east.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2992 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Killally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Killally · Cill Alaidh
- Area
- 457,809 m² (45.78 ha, 113.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballybarrack, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Upper
- Electoral division
- Haggardstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Haggardstown electoral division: 9,301 people in 3,293 households; 77% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybarrack, Carnanbregagh, Crumlin, Fairhill, Gibstown, Haynestown
- Placenames
- Killally 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.