Killykeeragh
Townland in the civil parish of Clones, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Coillidh Chaorach
- Area
- 45.4 ha
- 112 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 3,226 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killykeeragh, from 235 m² to 148,580 m² (14.86 ha, 36.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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
No zone of a development plan covers Killykeeragh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Nov 2024Conditional
permission to demolish existing single storey extension and construct a proposed new single-storey addition to the rear of existing two storey dwelling house including elevational changes/internal alterations and associated site works situated at Killykeeragh, Smithborough, Co. Monaghan, H18 AH52
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460425
27 Jul 2017Conditional
The retention of changes and alterations made to the storey and a half artists studio and living accommodation with mechanical aeration system and raised percolation area of previously granted planning permission reference number 06/176. The main changes consist of; 1.The changed position and size of 5 number roof windows to west elevation and elevational changes. 2. One roof window to the east elevation and new location for insulated flue terminal through roof. 3. Single storey porch to the western side. 4. Elevational changes to the north elevation. 5. Length of building reduced with change to ridge height of the building. The development is also to consist of change of use from artist studio and living accommodation to a dwelling house including use of existing wastewater treatment plant and raised mound percolation area and existing service road leading to existing domestic entrance to the public road and all associated site works
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 17362
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 Killykeeragh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killykeeragh.
Architectural heritage
- Lock, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Canal lock on former Ulster Canal, built c.1840. Sluice gates absent and lock no longer in use. Cut stone to base of canal to west, openings for ground sluices to side walls, with tooled stone to sill. Coursed, peck-dressed limestone and sandstone walls with tooled copings, and lock gate emplacements visible to each end. Recesses to tail-gate emplacements to west, to accommodate open sluice gates. Stop-grooves to each side wall to west of tail-gate emplacements. Curved walls to west of lock visible.
- Lock keeper's house, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey former lock keeper's house, built c.1840, having central canted projecting entrance bay to front (north) elevation. No longer in use. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, timber eaves brackets, rendered ridge-tiles and red brick octagonal-plan chimneystack. Coursed dressed limestone wall to front, east and west elevations, roughly coursed rubble and squared limestone to rear, with dressed limestone block-and-start quoins throughout. Dressed stone plinth course to front. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone lintels and sills, timber fittings. Square-headed door opening to west elevation of canted bay with tooled stone lintel, surround and timber fittings. Square-headed door opening to rear having tooled stone lintel, red brick surround, blocked up to lower half. Rendered and red brick fireplaces and timber roof supports visible to interior.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killykeeragh.
- 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 Killykeeragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Killykeeragh · Coillidh Chaorach
- Area
- 453,872 m² (45.39 ha, 112.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clones, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dartree
- Electoral division
- Drumhillagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumhillagh electoral division: 716 people in 234 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolatty, Cornafaghy, Gortmore South, Killina, Naghill, Skervan
- Placenames
- Killykeeragh 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.