# Killylea, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Bekan, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Cillín Liath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 418,879 m² (41.89 ha, 103.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 184,351 m² (18.44 ha, 45.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Bekan, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/bekan.md - Barony: Costello - Electoral division: Bekan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Bekan electoral division: 776 people in 281 households; 90% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/36096 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152067 - Centre: latitude 53.781585, longitude -8.853946 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killylea, from 2,012 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 232,088 m² (23.21 ha, 57.35 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 991367: 232,088 m² (23.21 ha, 57.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/991367.md - Parcel 910969: 184,351 m² (18.44 ha, 45.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910969.md - Parcel 918727: 2,012 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/918727.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Killylea in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 8 Aug 2025, Mayo County Council 25328: N/a. Permission. Section 5 Declaration: refurbish derelict farmhouse as per the vacant property refurbishment Grant Croi Coonaithe Towns Fund. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/25328/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killylea. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA092-053: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA092-053----. In average pasture, located on a rise with good views. There is a farmstead 25m to N. Raised roughly oval area (29.6m N–S; 36.6m E–W) defined NNE–W by a scarp (H 1.2m; Wth slope 1.4m) outside which at SSE–W there is a fosse (Wth 3m) and outer bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.45m). Slight undulations at N probably represent levelled remnants of the levelled fosse and outer bank. At NW–N the scarp and most of the NW quadrant of the interior have been quarried away. On the NE arc the scarp has a broad terraced slope. The interior is highest to NW of centre, sloping outwards from there to the enclosing scarp. There is a ramp-like slump (Wth 4m) in the scarp at SSE which may indicate the original entrance. Grass cover. A farm road lies within a few meters of the E side of the rath leading to the farmyard at N. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 May 2022 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killylea. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killylea. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/killylea.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/killylea.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/killylea.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Killylea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyroe: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballyroe.md - Cloonacurry: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonacurry.md - Cullentragh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cullentragh-151296.md - Lisbaun West: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lisbaun-west.md - Lispatrick: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lispatrick.md - Reask: https://everytownland.com/mayo/reask.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/killylea - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/killylea