Killavilla
Townland in the civil parish of Roscrea, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cill an Bhile
- Area
- 217 ha
- 536 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 1,934 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killavilla, from 100 m² to 118,182 m² (11.82 ha, 29.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Killavilla 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
5 Jul 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF MILKING PARLOUR INCORPORATING DAIRY, PLANT, STORAGE, MEAL BIN, RAIN WATER STORAGE TANK, HOLDING YARD WITH CRUSH/ DRAFTING YARD, UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANK WITH FLOW CHANNEL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 22338
7 Aug 2018Conditional
A PROPOSED 4G ALL WEATHER PLAYING PITCH, BALL WALL, PITCH LIGHTING, & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18344
6 Apr 2018N/a
A PROPOSED 4G ALL WEATHER PLAYING PITCH, BALL WALL, PITCH LIGHTING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18157
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roscrea Bog 000583
Recorded monuments
- OF043-055 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Landscape feature such as a tree-ring associated with Killavilla House of post-1700 date. 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
- OF043-056 Stone sculpture - iconic
Description
Glacial limestone erratic (H 1.45m; Wth 1.3m; T 0.27-0.65m) that has a stone head carved onto its surface which originally was located in a field near to Killavilla House and has since been removed from its original location and is now housed in the National Museum of Ireland (see DU018-209----) when it was acquired from the landowner in 1944. The adjoining field to where the stone was located was known locally as the cillín and in this field there was a low mound (diam. 41m; H 0.6m) surrounded by a shallow fosse (OF043-057----). The upper part of the stone head is pointed and rises to a peak above the forehead (Roe 1945, 263-66). 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
- OF043-057 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on flat land in upland area. Raised circular area (diam 41m; ext. H 0.5m) enclosed by shallow fosse with possible entrance gap (Wth 3.5m) at S. Known locally as the cillin (OF043-057001-) which would suggest that this ringfort was reused as a childrens burial ground (Roe 1945, 263-6). 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
- OF043-057001 Children's burial ground
Description
Situated on flat land in upland area. Raised circular ringfort (OF043-057) enclosed by shallow fosse with possible entrance gap at S. Known locally as the cillin which would suggest that this ringfort was reused as a childrens burial ground (Roe 1945, 263-6). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
- OF043-066 Enclosure
Description
Not visible at ground level. Depicted as small circular enclosure on 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map. 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
- Killavilla House, house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with pedimented central entrance bay, entrance porch and additions to rear and side elevations. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and open eaves with paired brackets. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed window opening over entrance porch with coloured sidelights. Segmental-headed door opening to house within entrance porch with timber panelled double doors flanked by clustered colonnettes and sidelights and with glazed fanlight. Rear yard accessed through rendered arch with incorporated bellcote. Cobbled yard to rear with two-storey outbuildings with hipped slate roofs and random coursed walls with red brick and sandstone dressings. Walled garden to north-east of house with two-stage tower to south. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to entrance with hipped slate roof and rendered walls. Projecting entrance bay is flanked by chamfered bays. Decorative cast-iron double entrance gates supported by tooled limestone piers and flanked by pedestrian gates and railings. Site is enclosed by a boundary wall.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1764 (ZIP).
- 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 Killavilla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Killavilla · Cill an Bhile
- Area
- 2,169,536 m² (216.95 ha, 536.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Roscrea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballybritt
- Electoral division
- Gorteen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gorteen electoral division: 291 people in 101 households; 90% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Killavilla 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.