Killygone

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killygone, from 2,173 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 90,268 m² (9.03 ha, 22.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Killygone 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 Killygone 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killygone.

Recorded monuments

• MO017-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a shelf towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope. This rath is described as ‘Old fort’ in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and it is depicted as a hachured feature on the 1907 edition. It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.5m E-W; c. 33m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.2-2.2m) SE-W-NE that is incorporated into a field bank and hedge ESE-W-NW. There is no indication of a fosse or of an original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 8 May 2018

• MO017-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a rise towards the bottom of the S-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge. This rath is probably the feature depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) W of Corkeeran townland, and it is depicted on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is an oval grass-covered area (dims 41m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an earthen bank incorporated into a field bank and hedge (ext. H 1.8m at SE) that is reduced to a scarp overlain by a field wall and hedge WNW-NNE. There is no visible fosse, and the outer face of the bank is stone-lined SE-WNW. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 8 May 2018

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch railway bridge, built c.1855, carrying Great Northern Railway over road. Three-centred arch, having rock-faced rusticated and margined stepped limestone voussoirs, and cut-stone soffit. Tapered projecting buttresses and curved wing walls to abutments to each elevation. Coursed rock-faced rusticated limestone to spandrel walls, abutments and buttresses. Cut limestone blocks to parapet walls. Dressed limestone platbands at impost level and running over arch-ring. Dressed limestone copings to wing-walls, terminating in square-plan piers.

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 Killygone, 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 Killygone.

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 Killygone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Killygone · Coill Uí Ghabhann

Area

393,556 m² (39.36 ha, 97.25 acres)

Civil parish

Killeevan, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Killeevan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

330 people lived in 125 households in the Killeevan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynure, Cappog, Ellinure, Latroe, Lisnagore

Placenames

Killygone 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.