Killelan

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killelan, from 8 m² to 100,064 m² (10.01 ha, 24.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Killelan 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.

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  Permission for the renovation of and single storey rear extension to an existing detached rural cottage, associated alterations to all cottage elevations, construction of a detached garage, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, demolition of an existing out building and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211833

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 Killelan.

Recorded monuments

• KD038-006 Church
  Description

  A fortified church whose present remains consist of a substantial tower with a circular turret projecting from the N wall near the NW angle, with the foundations of a nave extending to the W. The tower now consists of high barrel vault with large two-centred windows in the E and S walls. There is a piscina in the S wall and a cupboard opposite it, both at the W end of the church. Access to the upper floor is via a spiral staircase in the turret. There are two small lintelled chambers on either side and within the curtain of the vault. Above this level, the tower does not survive. The walls show signs of repair and rebuilding. Situated on top of slight rise in graveyard. O'Donovan states that the church was known as the Castle of Killelan, and was believed to have belonged to an abbey which originally stood here (OSL 1837, 88). Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-006001 Graveyard
  Description

  Polygonal shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 41m N-S; 57m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 wall with fortified church (KD038-006----) in centre and medieval graveslab (KD038-006002-) to SSW of church. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-006002 Graveslab
  Description

  On the foundation line of the S wall of the nave of a church (KD038-006----) in a graveyard (KD038-006001-). An upright granite slab (dims. H 0.75m; Wth 0.49m; T 0.29m) carries a Latin cross carved in relief and traces of a possible roll-moulding survive along the upper edge and right hand side of the slab. (Corlett 2003, 95, 100-101) Date of upload: 15 September 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Killelan, about 1 in 10 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 Killelan.

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 Killelan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Killelan · Cill Fhaoláin

Area

197,569 m² (19.76 ha, 48.82 acres)

Civil parish

Killelan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Carrigeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

644 people lived in 235 households in the Carrigeen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Commonstown, Newtown, Simonstown East, Simonstown West

Placenames

Killelan 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.