# Killygone, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeevan, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Coill Uí Ghabhann. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 393,556 m² (39.36 ha, 97.25 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 38,811 m² (3.88 ha, 9.59 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeevan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/killeevan.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Killeevan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40164 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171173 - Centre: latitude 54.166112, longitude -7.174038 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 340175: 90,268 m² (9.03 ha, 22.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340175.md - Parcel 332027: 90,056 m² (9.01 ha, 22.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332027.md - Parcel 324503: 54,190 m² (5.42 ha, 13.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324503.md - Parcel 325347: 46,511 m² (4.65 ha, 11.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325347.md - Parcel 344538: 38,811 m² (3.88 ha, 9.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344538.md - Parcel 357128: 36,209 m² (3.62 ha, 8.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357128.md - Parcel 328786: 18,107 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328786.md - Parcel 335760: 7,596 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335760.md - Parcel 5213772: 2,173 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5213772.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Killygone in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Killygone. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO017-007: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO017-007----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO017-008----. 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 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) - Bridge, 1850–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41401705, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401705. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 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/monaghan/killygone.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killygone.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killygone.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Killygone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynure: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ballynure.md - Cappog: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cappog-170217.md - Ellinure: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ellinure.md - Latroe: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/latroe.md - Lisnagore: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnagore.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/monaghan/killygone - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/killygone