Killoughy

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killoughy, from 398 m² to 540,755 m² (54.08 ha, 133.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Killoughy 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.

• 29 Apr 2026N/a

  reconstruction and extension to house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660229

• 6 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. DWELLING, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA, UTILISNG EXISTING ENTRANCE ONTO PUBLIC ROAD & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21621

• 27 Jul 2018Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK, ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18325

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 Killoughy.

Recorded monuments

• OF032-006 Moated site
  Description

  In pasture on top of low natural ridge. Raised roughly square area (22m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by low earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.25m) with partial fosse (Wth 1m; ext. D 0.25m) which survives at W only with field boundary intercepting site at S and E. No visible entrance feature. Depicted as a roughly square shaped earthwork and annotated as a 'Fort' on the Ordnance Survey Fair Plan 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 25 November 2014

• OF032-030 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in tillage field. Not indicated on any ed. OSi historic maps. No surface remains visible. Cropmark of circular shaped area (diam. c. 44m) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth orthophotos taken August 2022 and on aerial images taken 18/03/2009. Possibly the remains of a ploughed out ringfort. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Ed Lyne Date of upload: 16 August 2022

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1905, with ER VII royal cipher with crown motif. Located at Killoughy Crossroads. Maker's name 'W.T Allen & Co. London' on base.

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

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 Killoughy.

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.

No address of the register names Killoughy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Killoughy · Cill Achaidh

Area

1,056,684 m² (105.67 ha, 261.11 acres)

Civil parish

Killoughy, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyboy

Electoral division

Rathrobin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathrobin electoral division: 461 people in 152 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghbrack Glebe, Brogherla Big (Co. Laois), Castlecuffe (Co. Laois), Clonseer, Coolagh (Co. Laois), Rathrobin

Placenames

Killoughy 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.