Kilkeeran
Kilkeeran is a townland in the civil parish of Clonyhurk, barony of Philipstown Upper, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Cill Chiaráin.
- Area
- 203.9 ha
- 504 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 8,305 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilkeeran, from 45 m² to 730,190 m² (73.02 ha, 180.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilkeeran 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
18 Oct 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER, NEW ROADWAY AND BORED WELL
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23403
19 Sept 2023N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER, NEW ROADWAY AND BORED WELL
Permission · Offaly County Council, 23379
30 Aug 2022Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, NEW ENTRANCE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22447
28 Feb 2022Conditional
(A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHEDS AND UNDERGROUND SLATTED TANK. (B) CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL CUBICLE SHED AND UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY STORAGE TANKS. (C) CONSTRUCTION OF A SILAGE PIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2289
26 Oct 2021Conditional
DORMER DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, ENTRANCE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RAISED BED PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21665
8 Jul 2020Conditional
EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING 1. CONVERT EXISTING ROOF ATTIC AREA TO USAGE AS HABITABLE ROOMS, BUILD NEW GABLE EXTENSIONS AT FIRST FLOOR TO THE REAR 2. BUILD NEW GROUND FLOOR KITCHEN/DINING AREA, SINGLE STOREY, 3. ERECT DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 20282
3 Jul 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20268
16 Oct 2019Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING, GARAGE, NEW ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19490
10 Jul 2019Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19336
4 Jun 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE-WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER, NEW BORED WELL AND NEW SITE ENTRANCE
Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19260
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 Kilkeeran.
Recorded monuments
- OF033-007 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Small tree-covered area defined by a bank (c. 0.5m H, 1.50m - 2.0m W) and is almost certainly a tree ring. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilkeeran.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kilkeeran, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2177 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilkeeran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Kilkeeran · Cill Chiaráin
- Area
- 2,039,068 m² (203.91 ha, 503.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonyhurk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Philipstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Hammerlane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 590 people lived in 205 households in the Hammerlane electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Kilkeeran 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.