Killycroney

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killycroney, from 412 m² to 348,309 m² (34.83 ha, 86.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Killycroney 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 Nov 2019Conditional

  Permission for the construction of an external slatted tank (33m x 4m x 2.4m deep) to an existing farm complex and all associated site development works. This development is within the curtilage of Protected Structures LHS006-009 and LHS006-010

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19971

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 Killycroney.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-051001 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Cropmark arc probably representing roughly circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 38m NE-SW) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYM 38). Some 50m SE of site are linear cropmarks (LH006-051002-) of uncertain significance.

• LH006-051002 Linear earthwork
  Description

  Linear cropmarks of uncertain significance visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYM 38). Located c. 50m SE of enclosure (LH006-051001-).

Architectural heritage

• Killycroney Bridge, bridge, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge, built c. 1880, carrying road from Knockbridge to Forkhill over former Great Northern Railway. Snecked limestone walling, ashlar limestone string course and coping to parapet, rendered parapet to east. Segmental-arch, rock-faced voussoirs, ashlar limestone impost to arch. Red brick vaulting. Squared-and-snecked limestone sloping revetments to east and west terminating in square-profile pillars.

• Killycroney House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820. L-plan, return and flat roof extension to north-east. Hipped slate roof, crested clay ridge tiles, terracotta finials to apex of hips, clay hip tiles; smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks with clay pots; profiled cast-iron gutters supported on corbels, circular cast-iron downpipes. Painted smooth rendered walling to south, east and west, plinth course and block-and-start quoins, roughcast-render to north elevation. Square-headed window openings, painted and unpainted tooled limestone sills, painted moulded lugged architraves to south elevation, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows, two-over-two sliding sash windows to return. Segmental-headed door opening, channelled painted smooth rendered surround with prominent keystone, painted timber doorcase comprising fluted engaged Doric columns on limestone bases surmounted by frieze, cornice and plain-glazed fanlight with central circular light; painted timber door with two vertical raised-and-fielded panels, door accessed by limestone step. House situated in own grounds, outbuildings to north-east, simple wrought-iron pedestrian gate to west, square-profile smooth rendered ruled-and-lined gate piers, pyramidal stone caps, cast-iron gates to south giving access to house.

• Killycroney House, outbuilding, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ranges of stone outbuildings, dated 1800, to Killycroney House. Seven-bay two-storey north range , six-bay single-storey L-plan west range. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, uPVC gutters. Random coursed stone walling to north range, painted stone walling to west. Square-headed window openings, red brick surrounds, painted timber casement windows, segmental-headed openings to first floor north range, red brick surrounds, painted timber vertically-sheeted shutters. Square-headed door openings, some red brick surrounds, some doors to north range. Segmental-headed carriage arch and oculus to north range. Part of north range converted to living space. Steps to first floor west elevation north range. Date stone "1800" to south-west corner. Modern farm buildings to north. Ruined granary to south-west of yard. Yard located to east of house.

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 Killycroney, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2926 (ZIP).

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 Killycroney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Killycroney · Cill Chróine Bheag

Area

637,987 m² (63.8 ha, 157.65 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Louth

Electoral division

Castlering, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,092 people lived in 352 households in the Castlering electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickallan, Cortial, Crossabeagh, Mullabohy, Palmersland

Placenames

Killycroney 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.