# Killowney Beg, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Gallen, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cill Urnaí Bheag.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 421,436 m² (42.14 ha, 104.14 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,126 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Gallen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/gallen.md
- Barony: Garrycastle
- Electoral division: Cloghan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,044 people lived in 375 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41207
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180830
- Centre: latitude 53.235182, longitude -7.872962 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killowney Beg, from 35 m² to 96,166 m² (9.62 ha, 23.76 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 301527: 96,166 m² (9.62 ha, 23.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301527.md
- Parcel 2485936: 88,568 m² (8.86 ha, 21.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2485936.md
- Parcel 308918: 50,091 m² (5.01 ha, 12.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308918.md
- Parcel 292051: 38,847 m² (3.88 ha, 9.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292051.md
- Parcel 294179: 22,788 m² (2.28 ha, 5.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294179.md
- Parcel 276749: 16,268 m² (1.63 ha, 4.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276749.md
- Parcel 273144: 14,442 m² (1.44 ha, 3.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273144.md
- Parcel 298152: 13,850 m² (1.38 ha, 3.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298152.md
- Parcel 297095: 13,546 m² (1.35 ha, 3.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297095.md
- Parcel 274525: 13,439 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274525.md
- Parcel 272644: 11,126 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272644.md
- Parcel 296801: 8,834 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296801.md
- Parcel 312759: 7,535 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312759.md
- Parcel 310398: 6,780 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310398.md
- Parcel 304893: 5,604 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304893.md
- Parcel 5725459: 4,946 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5725459.md
- Parcel 312814: 4,503 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312814.md
- Parcel 6230769: 793 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6230769.md
- Parcel 6075763: 422 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6075763.md
- Parcel 6075782: 333 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6075782.md
- Parcel 6230756: 35 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6230756.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Killowney Beg in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 21 Feb 2024, Offaly County Council 2460047: Conditional. Permission. construction of a set of stables, a shed for feed and fodder, a fenced horse arena, an isolation stables, a roofed horse walker/ lunging ring, a roofed manure pit, a gallops and ancillary works (new farm access road, concrete yards, effluent tank etc.) in new farmyard area, with new farm entrance onto public road. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460047/0
- 21 Sept 2023, Offaly County Council 23381: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23381/0
- 6 May 2020, Offaly County Council 20165: Conditional. Retention. SHED EXTENSION AS CONSTRUCTED AND PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SILAGE SLAB WITH APRON AND AN EFFLUENT TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20165/0
- 8 Apr 2020, Offaly County Council 20129: N/a. Retention. SHED EXTENSION AS CONSTRUCTED. PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SILAGE SLAB WITH APRON AND AN EFFLUENT TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20129/0
- 24 Apr 2018, Offaly County Council 18182: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18182/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killowney Beg.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- OF022-012001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF022-012001-. No church is depicted in the townland of ‘Killcourny’ which at the time was Protestant lands on the 1654 Down Survey map of Garrycastle Barony (NLI Ms. 716). No church is depicted in ‘Killoerny’ on Sir William Petty’s map of 1685. Recorded by the Ordnance Survey in 1838 as ‘the ruins of Killowny old Church’ (Herity 2008, 122). The church remains were described in 1942 as ‘The ruins consist of the remains of the side and end walls of a rough stone building. Length of original building about 33 ft. [10m], breadth of original building about 18 ft. [5.5m], height not possible to estimate’ (ITA Survey 1942). Present remains consist of the poorly preserved ruins of a rectangular church (13.1m E-W; 5.5m N-S; wall T 0.9m) with only portions of the N and S walls, along with half of the E gable surviving above ground with no evidence of the W wall of the church. The N wall of the church has been partially rebuilt and repointed in places but is the best preserved where it stands c. 1.2m high. In the 19th century this wall of the church formed part of the N wall of the graveyard. Only the lower three courses of the central section of the S wall (H 0.6m) of the church remains upstanding with footings of the foundations of the E end of the S wall visible along with grass covered footings of the foundation of the levelled E wall of the church. At E end of church ruins a modern altar covered by a stone shelter has been constructed in recent times on top of the wall footings of the E wall of the church. There are no surface remains visible of the W end of the S wall or of the W wall of the church. N wall of church was used as part of N wall of graveyard (OF022-012002-) which contains 18th/19th-century headstones. In recent times the graveyard has been extended to the N and E of the older smaller graveyard. Irregular earthworks outside W wall of graveyard may be associated with church. A lugged mortar has been built up against the E face of the S wall of the old graveyard which has now been extended to the E. Traces of possible ecclesiastical enclosure (OF022-012005-) in fields to N, NE and SW of church. 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 revision: 27 November 2014
- OF022-012002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF022-012002-. Poorly preserved ruins of a rectangular church (OF022-012001-) stand in N quadrant of graveyard. The N wall of the church formed part of the N wall of the graveyard which was built in the 19th century. The graveyard has been extended to the N and E in recent times. A lugged mortar has been built up against the E face of the S wall of the old graveyard boundary. Graveyard contains 18th/19th-century headstones and is entered from through a gateway located in S wall. Remains of a coffin stand and stile are incorprorated into the graveyard wall to the W of this gateway. Large car park has been built in field to S of graveyard. Irregular earthworks outside W wall of graveyard may be associated with church. Traces of possible ecclesiastical enclosure (OF022-012005-) in fields to N, NE and SW of graveyard. 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 revision: 27 November 2014
- OF022-012005: Ecclesiastical enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF022-012005-. Curving arc of townland boundary c. 100m to N and NE of church (OF022-012001-) and graveyard (OF022-012002-) along with curving arc of field boundaries to SW of graveyard may indicate possible remains of an ecclesiastical enclosure of Early Christian date (Fitzpatrick 1998, 121). The partial remains of an enclosing bank which may have formed part of an inner enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI June 1973 N. 521/520) was levelled in the early 1990s. This enclosing bank was located in the field to the E of Killowney church (OF022-012001-) and graveyard (OF022-012002-) and was levelled by a machine driver when the graveyard was being extended c. 1990 (SMR file 1997). The circular curving field banks indicated on the current edition of the OS 6-inch maps 150m to the SSW of the church (OF022-012001-) may be the remains of the original ecclesiastical enclosure (int. diam. c. 290m) associated with an Early Christian monastery at Killowney. This field boundary no longer survives but a portion of an upstanding curving field boundary located 100m to the N of the church (OF022-012001-) may be the only surviving surface remains of the possible ecclesiastical enclosure. This upstanding section of the ecclesiastical enclosure acts as the townland boundary between Killowney Beg and Killowney More. The curving shape of the 19th century graveyard wall may suggest the presence of an inner enclosure with the graveyard wall following the curve of the earlier inner enclosure. See attached word document for annotated sketch plan showing circuit of possible ecclesiastical enclosure. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revision : 27 November 2014
- OF022-012006: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF022-012006-. Situated on wet grassland that has been reclaimed and coverted into a car park with modern graveyard extension immediately to the S and SE of a church (OF022-012001-) and graveyard (OF022-012004-). The remains of a fulacht fia were levelled in the early 1990s by a machine driver when the graveyard (OF022-012002-) was being extended c. 1990 (SMR file 1997). The fulacht fia was located in the field 50m to the SE of the graveyard in the area where the present car park is located. A second fulacht fia (OF022-012007-) now covered over by landscaping works is located c.50m to the E. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 18 April 2012
- OF022-012007: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF022-012007-. In poorly drained grassland, 110m south of a church (OF022-012001-) and graveyard (OF022-012004-), with levelled fulacht fia (OF022-012006-) c. 50m to W. A well preserved horseshoe-shaped mound (7.1m NW-SE; 9.3m NE-SE; H 0.3m) of burnt material, with the opening (2m NE-SW; 2.7m NW-SE) facing SE. A rescue excavation was carried out on the site of this fulacht fiadh in 2013 by David Sweetman under license No. 13E0119, when the field where the site was located was used as a landfill site for dumping of soil associated with groundworks on the adjacent public road carried out by Offaly Co. Co. The mound of burnt stone was relocated underneath the dumped soil. The site was recorded and photographed by the excavator and was then covered over with protective material but was not fully excavated. No evidence of any trough was found in association with the burnt stone material. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revision: 27 November 2014

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Killowney Beg, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killowney Beg.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killowney-beg.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killowney-beg.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killowney-beg.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Killowney Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Coolreagh or Cloghanhill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolreagh-or-cloghanhill.md
- Creggan and Glosterboy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/creggan-and-glosterboy.md
- Drishoge or Strawberryhill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/drishoge-or-strawberryhill.md
- Killeenboy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killeenboy.md
- Killowney More: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killowney-more.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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