Killeen West

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeen West, from 47 m² to 275,961 m² (27.6 ha, 68.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Killeen West 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.

• 2 Mar 2026Refused

  for a Two-Storey Type Dwelling, with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area With New Vehicular Entrance, Horse Gallop, Sand Arena, 3 No. Stable Blocks, 2 No. Horse Walkers, Hay/Feed Storage Building, Dung Stead with Appropriate Holding Tank and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660222

• 13 Jun 2025Conditional

  for proposed single storey type dwelling with new vehicular entrance, septic tank with percolation area and secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works (within the curtilage of a protected structure); Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of the PERMISSION for proposed single storey type dwelling with new vehicular entrance, septic tank with percolation area and secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works (within the curtilage of a protected structure)

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560666

• 15 Nov 2021N/a

  for 1) the sensitive restoration of an existing derelict cottage (a protected structure (RPS no. B26-18)) and 2) the extension of same cottage with single storey rear extension, ancillary alteration to all elevations, detached garage, on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soak aways, vehicular access via an existing entrance & laneway and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211618

• 22 Oct 2021N/a

  sought for a single storey dwelling, detached garage, on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soak aways, vehicular access via an existing entrance and laneway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211528

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 Killeen West.

Recorded monuments

• KD026-022001 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on an aerial photograph (GSAP N 345) as the cropmark of a small circular enclosure. On a gentle W-facing pasture slope. No visible surface trace survives. A possible rectangular enclosure (KD026-022002-) lies c. 35m to the SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 29 August 2012

• KD026-022002 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on an aerial photograph (GSAP N 345) as the cropmark of a small rectangular enclosure. On a gentle W-facing pasture slope. No visible surface trace survives. A possible circular enclosure (KD026-022002-) lies c. 35m to the NW. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 29 August 2012

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1837 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan. Hipped oat straw thatch roof, rope twist ridge with paired exposed stretchers having exposed scallops, part rendered red brick Running bond chimney stack having stepped capping, and exposed stretchers to eaves having exposes scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings including timber lintel framing timber boarded half-door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings having splayed reveals framing six-over-three timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in own grounds.

• Farm house, 1700–1837 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1837, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey windbreak abutting single-bay single-storey projecting end bay; two-bay single-storey rear (north) elevation. Hipped and pitched oat thatch roof on an L-shaped plan, rope twist ridge with paired exposed stretchers having exposed scallops, rendered dwarf central chimney stack having chamfered capping, and exposed stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to lane with roughcast piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting wrought iron "farm gate".

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

At the centre of the townland of Killeen West, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killeen West.

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.

No address of the register names Killeen West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Killeen West

Area

845,483 m² (84.55 ha, 208.92 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybrackan, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Ballybrackan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

660 people lived in 223 households in the Ballybrackan electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derryoughter East, Gorteen, Killeen East, Riverstown

Placenames

Killeen West 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.