Killowen

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killowen, from 53 m² to 537,457 m² (53.75 ha, 132.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Oct 2025Conditional

  a new machinery shed to the existing farmyard and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560507

• 21 Oct 2025N/a

  a new machinery shed to the existing farmyard and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560499

• 9 Aug 2024Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF ONE NUMBER DETACHED DWELLING, ONE NUMBER DETACHED GARAGE, TO UPGRADE EXISTING ENTRANCE ONTO PUBLIC ROAD, TO INSTALL A TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH COCO FILTER AND RAISED INFILTRATION BED AND TO CONNECT TO PUBLIC WATERMAIN AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460304

• 5 Jul 2022Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22342

• 11 Mar 2019Conditional

  RENOVATION & EXTENSION OF EXISTING COTTAGE INCLUDING (A) CONSTRUCT A DORMER EXTENSION TO REAR, (B) RAISE RIDGE HEIGHT OF EXISTING COTTAGE TO INCORPORATE 2 NO. 1ST FLOOR BEDROOMS, (C) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK & INSTALL NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, (D) UPGRADE EXISTING ENTRANCE, (E) ALL INTERNAL ALTERATIONS & MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING & ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19104

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 Killowen.

Recorded monuments

• OF004-004 Enclosure
  Description

  Large enclosure (int. dims. c. 40m E-W, 51m EW) situated on NW end of a prominent ridge. Almost square in plan with rounded angles and defined by a large bank (base of fosse to top of bank H 2.75m) of earth and stone with a fosse (max. W. 8.10m) outside it. Dome-shaped interior. Ramp entrance at NE. recently described in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland as following; 'Near the village of Castlejordan, a sub-rectangular partial contour fort with a total site footprint of approximately 0.4ha is positioned in a commanding position on the NW edge of a prominent hill ridge surrounded by low-lying terrain and overlooking the Yellow River to the N. Univallate for the entire circuit, with a simple entrance gap in the NE. No evidence for any internal features on the surface. The enclosing elements have been damaged at the SW where quarrying has encroached upon the monument. The external ditch has been in-filled and is not visible at the N or W. The surviving sections of the enclosing elements are under dense tree cover. The interior is under pasture. First map depiction in first edition Ordnance Survey mapping. More detailed earthwork survey in second edition Ordnance Survey mapping. Site survey by O'Brien and Sweetman in 1997.' (http://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/records/IR0986.html) 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 and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 6 February 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killowen.

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 Killowen.

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 Killowen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Killowen · Coill Eoghain

Area

4,137,648 m² (413.76 ha, 1,022.44 acres)

Civil parish

Castlejordan, and its townlands

Barony

Warrenstown

Electoral division

Clonmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonmore electoral division: 508 people in 168 households; 94% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfore (Co. Meath), Ballyheashill, Castlejordan (Co. Meath), Clonmore, Corbetstown, Stonehouse, Tooreen, Wood

Placenames

Killowen 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.