Killinaboy

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killinaboy, from 1,020 m² to 119,728 m² (11.97 ha, 29.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• S1Community (Education)
  Kilnaboy Settlement Plan, Clare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Kilnaboy Settlement Plan, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilnaboy Settlement Plan, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Village Growth Area (General)
  Kilnaboy Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community (Community facilities)
  Kilnaboy Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Kilnaboy Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Village Growth Area (General)
  Killinaboy Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Killinaboy in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL017-020001 Church
  Description

  Situated to S of centre in a graveyard (CL017-020002-) on a low E-W ridge in pasture, overlooking a shallow valley to the S. Drawn as a rectangular building and named ‘Killinaboy Church (in ruins)’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Founded by (or dedicated to) Iníon Baoith, the daughter of Baoth/Baoith, a local saint of possible early medieval date (Macnamara 1907; MacMahon 2000). The construction of this currently roofless but otherwise well-preserved oblong church (22.25m E-W; 7.9m N-S) has been dated to between the 11th and 13th centuries, with a largescale rebuild in the late-15/16th century and further repairs in the early-18th century (Westropp 1894, 29; Harbison 1976; Swinfen 1992, 76; MacMahon 2000, 15). Much of the masonry in the N and W walls is original, although possibly rebuilt during later medieval modifications (Westropp 1900-1902, 139; Harbison 1976).    The W part of the N wall (L 13.57m) is original to a height of 3-4m; of cyclopean construction and incorporating a course (2.4m above ground level) of large stones set alternately with thin slabs (Harbison 1976, 3). The newer portion of the wall is identifiable by the prevalence of smaller stones and the top of the wall has an external overhang for drainage. The E part of the wall (L 8.68m) projects slightly (0.18m) to the N from the wall’s original line and has a slight external base-batter. This projection may mark the divide between the church’s nave and chancel after its 15th-century modification, although there is no visible dividing line on the inner wall-face. At the top of the N wall’s inner face is a neat overhang of continuous dressed corbels, one of which bears a mason’s mark (Ua Cróinín 1994). There is a large, probably 17th-century rectangular window (Wth 0.77m; H 1.65m) with a lintelled embrasure in the E part of the N wall while farther to the E is a small round-headed and rubble-blocked doorway (Wth 0.67m; max. D 0.25m), most which is now below present ground level. This is traditionally said to be an entrance to an O’Quin tomb or vault but may originally have led to a sacristy (MacMahon 2000, 15). It has also been suggested that the doorway may have been taken and reused from the nearby round tower (CL017-020003-), c. 15m to the N (Barrow 1979, 63).   The exterior of the E gable wall has two base-buttresses which appear to be original: one (Wth 1m; H 1.5m) at the N end of the wall and another (Wth 1.2m) at the centre. The latter is positioned below a window with four lights in its lower section, a three-light upper panel, an unusual transom/cross-bar (Westropp 1900-1902, 139-140; Swinfen 1992, 76; Large 2011), and an elaborate arch with three circular opes (now filled in). The window heads appear to be of ogee or cusped-ogee form – pointed on the exterior, rounded on the interior (see also Comber 1997, 12; Westropp 1900-1902, 140; Large 2011). On the window interior there are bar-slots (min. D 0.2m) to close shutters, while the window embrasure has a round head.    The S wall appears to have been entirely rebuilt, probably in the 15th century, and is rendered externally. Like the N wall opposite, the top of the S wall’s inner face has an overhang of continuous dressed corbels. It contains a plain round-headed doorway (Wth 1.22m; H 2.15m) set in a flat arched embrasure and there is a sheela-na-gig (CL017-020014-) above on the outer wall face. Inside the doorway, at the top of the W jamb, the wall-plaster is missing, exposing a stone (L 0.57m; H 0.21m; min. D 0.13m) carved with a high-relief grotesque Hiberno-Romanesque figure - a double coil ending in a beast’s head, although the stone does not appear to be in its original position (Ua Cróinín 1994). There is a narrow light (Wth 0.17m; H 0.85m) toward the W end of the wall while in the E part there are two pointed windows in splayed embrasures. Each window once held tracery which has been almost totally removed. Westropp (1900-1902, 140) considered these windows ‘very late’, noting their brick arches.   The W gable wall is original except for the apex, with a clear distinction between the older cyclopean masonry and the new upper section of smaller stones. Two antae (Wth 0.46-0.5m) survive up to c. 1m below the gable, above which the wall was rebuilt. Built into the outer face of the W wall is an unusual double-armed cross (Harbison 1976) with its base 2.2m above ground level and projecting in low relief (H c. 0.05m) from the wall-face. The inner wall-face has a tall batter (H c. 3m) which appears to date to the church’s 15th-century remodelling.   Within the church, in the N wall, a large tomb recess (Wth 2.3m; H 1.9m; D 0.5m) with a trefoil head and simple moulding has been in use by the McGann family apparently since the late-19th century (Westropp 1894, 27). Also against the N wall, the 19th-century table tomb of Rev. Patrick Hare has a possible 17th-century inscription to husband and wife Melaghlin Oge O’Hehir and More Hogan on the wall above (Neylon 1998). At the N end of the E wall’s inner face is an ambry filled with stone debris (Westropp 1900-1902, 140; Large 2011) and there is a corbel in the NE corner. The S wall is plastered internally. At the E end of this wall-face is an O’Neilan memorial (CL017-0200012-). Between the two pointed windows in the E part of the S wall is an O’Flanagan memorial (CL017-020011-) and just W of the doorway is an incised O’Hehir memorial (dated 1711).    There are the remains of a round tower (CL017-020003-) c. 15m to the N, within the graveyard (CL017-020002-) which also contains is a medieval graveslab (CL017-020005-) in the SW corner and a medieval architectural fragment (CL017-020006-) reused in the graveyard’s E wall.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott    Date of upload: 9-10-2025

• CL017-020002 Graveyard
  Description

  On a low E-W ridge in pasture overlooking a shallow valley to the S. Drawn and labelled ‘Graveyard’ on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map and the OS 25-inch plan 1897.This polygonal graveyard (50m N-S; 36m E-W) is defined by a stone wall (Fisher 1990, 32; Large 2011), with a gate at the W side from which steps lead down to the public road. Graves date from the medieval period into modern times (Swinfen 1992, 76), with markers ranging from uninscribed rough headstones to flat graveslabs, chest tombs and vaults. The highest concentrations of graves are on the S and E sides of the medieval church (CL017-020001-) which is situated to S centre. There is a possible 13th/14th-century graveslab (CL017-020005-) in the SW corner and an architectural fragment (CL017-020006-), possibly 12th/13th century in date, is reused in the graveyard’s E inner wall-face. Graves within the church date back to at least 1644 (Swinfern, op. cit.). There is a round tower (CL017-020003-) at the N end of the graveyard. A mound (CL017-02007-) lies c. 40m to the W of the graveyard, a barrow (CL017-020008-) c. 67m to the N, the site of a tower house (CL017-020004-) c. 70m to the ENE, and a bullaun stone (CL017-020013-) c. 109m to the S. Reference: Fisher, I. 1990 A 13th-century architectural fragment at Killinaboy, Co. Clare. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 32, 32-34. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 23 August 2023

• CL017-020003 Round tower
  Description

  Standing at the N end of a graveyard (CL017-020002-) on a low E-W ridge in pasture, overlooking a shallow valley to the S. Drawn as a circular building and named ‘Cloigtheach (Round Tower)’ on the both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Traditionally said to have been destroyed by Cromwellian forces, with cannon damage reputedly still visible in 1839 (Barrow 1979, 62; Comber 1997, 13; Westropp 1894, 28). The monument was first documented in 1808, when it was in a similar condition to its present state (Barrow, 1979, 62.). Westropp (1894, 28) considered the tower ‘very well built of crag blocks, in irregular courses, with close joints.’ The OS Letters of 1839 record the tower’s then-surviving height as ‘13ft’ [c. 3.96m] (Comber 1997, 13).     This round tower (H 3.1-3.6m; int. diam. at top c. 2m; ext. diam. at base c. 5.08m; circumference 15.95m) is built of roughly squared, hammer-dressed limestone blocks (wall T 1.5m at top) which follow the wall’s curvature smoothly and survive up to eleven/twelve rough courses in height (Barrow 1979, 62-3; Lalor 1999, 117). The interior is filled with earth and stones (ibid.). In the 1990s, rubbish and debris had apparently accumulated in the interior, and the top was covered by ivy (Lalor 1999, 117). A graveslab is attached to the outer wall-face (ibid.). The medieval church (CL017-020001-) of Killinaboy stands c. 15m to the S and, according to Barrow (1979, 63), the small round-headed, blocked doorway (Wth 0.67m; max. D 0.25m) in the N wall of the church may have been taken from the round tower.    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott    Date of upload: 9-10-2025

• CL017-020004 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In pasture on a low E-W ridge overlooking a valley to the S. Drawn as a rectangular building and labelled ‘Castle (in ruins)’ on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map but indicated with a cross and labelled ‘Castle (Site of)’ on the later OS 25-inch plan (1897) and on the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. According to Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997), the castle was recorded as being owned in 1574 by ‘Sr. Donell Obrien’, the son of Conor O’Brien, king of Thomond, and they also note a 1613 reference to Edward Blood (Protestant rector of Kilnaboy) as being ‘of Kilnaboy Castle’, but it is unclear if this site or another residence was being referred to. The castle is shown on Pelham’s map of 1787, and is noted in Dutton’s survey (1808). Frost (1893) described it as entirely ruined by the time of his writing. Ua Cróinín and Breen (1993, 11; 1997) noted that typical medieval dressed stones have been identified in nearby farm outbuildings, including a window or loop jamb and a rounded corbel and that the field is still known locally as the “castle field”. When inspected in 1998, no visible surface traces were found. Killinaboy church (CL017-020001-), graveyard (CL017-020002-) and round tower (CL017-020003-) lie c. 70m to the WSW.    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott    Date of upload: 9-10-2025

• CL017-020005 Graveslab
  Description

  Lying flat on the ground near the SW corner of the church at Killinaboy (CL017-020001-) with the head to the E. A rectangular slab (L 2.11m; Wth at top 0.69m; Wth at base 0.70m; T 0.17m) with an incised tau-headed crozier (L 0.69m) with a bell (L 0.2m; Wth 0.16m) below it. According to Rynne (1967, 161) ‘The crozier has a three-knopped shaft and projecting knob-like ends to the cross-piece. The large size of the slab would seem to justify its attribution to the 13th or 14th century’. (Rynne 1967, 146-65) The following images have been attached: CL017-020005-_01.jpg View of graveslab from NW. CL017-020005-_02.jpg View of graveslab from E. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 16 June 2015

• CL017-020006 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Reused and built into the inner face of the E wall of the graveyard (CL017-020002-) containing Killinaboy medieval church (CL017-020001-) and round tower (CL017-020003-). Identified in 1985 by Ian Fisher (1990, 32).  This architectural fragment, possibly 12th/13th century in date (ibid.) is a weathered but well-squared and finely worked limestone block (H 0.42m; Wth 0.21m; min. D 0.4m), set in its original vertical orientation; its base horizontal and its top broken (ibid). A precisely carved ‘large three-lobed semi-palmette leaf’ (H 0.18m) is visible in bold relief on the narrow ‘outer’ face of the block (ibid.). The leaf’s thick curving stem curls upward at the end, reaching the left arris of the block where it twists around the stem of what is probably a mirror-image leaf on the partly exposed broad face of the block. The stem on the outer face then continues to the damaged top of the block as ‘parallel roll-mouldings, with a single piece of “dogtooth” ornament (and traces of a possible second piece) in the hollow between them’ (ibid.).  Between and below the two plant stems is carved a smaller palmette leaf. Fisher (ibid., 32) noted that the architectural fragment had recently been set in a fresh bed of mortar.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Conn Herriott   Date of upload:  29-10-2025

• CL017-020007 Mound
  Description

  At the W edge of a ridge in pasture, with land sloping down to S, W and, more gradually, to N. This is a low, subcircular (7m N-S; 4.8m E-W; H 0.2-0.8m), flat-topped and grass-covered mound. There are several levelled field boundaries nearby, including one 11m to the W which is visible as a W-facing scarp (L 20m) running N-S. Connected with this is another scarp which runs E-W, c. 36m N of the mound. A third scarp also runs E-W, c. 55m N of the mound. There is a modern E-W running field boundary nearby to the S. Killinaboy medieval church (CL017-020001-) lies c. 48m to the E. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 18 July 2023

• CL017-020008 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In a shallow depression in a gentle W-facing slope in pasture. This well-preserved barrow comprises a grass-covered circular platform (diam. of base 13.7m N-S; min. 12m E-W; diam. of top 10m N-S; 9.3m E-W) which is poorly defined NE-E-SSE, where the platform limits merge with the surrounding ground. However, a later N-S running field wall (and townland boundary) appears to follow the edge of the barrow on this eastern side. Several non-contiguous stones protruding through the sod at the edge of the platform may be kerbstones. At the centre of the platform is a low cairn (diam. c. 1.5m; H 0.1m). There is a graveyard (CL017-020002-) c. 69m to the S, enclosing Killinaboy medieval church (CL017-020001-). The site of a tower house (CL010-020004-) lies c. 93m to the SE. See attached image: CL017-020008-_01 Monument viewed from the N. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 18 July 2023

• CL017-020009 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL017-020010 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL017-020011 Memorial stone
  Description

  Placed between the windows in the S wall of Killinaboy church (CL017-020001-). This elaborate memorial stone (H 2.18m; Wth c. 2.18m) with a round head, hood-mould and returned mouldings (Gilmore 1999, 29-30) is carved with a low-relief representation of the Crucifixion and two Marys, as well as panels with foliate carvings, with the date 1644 at the top.  Lower down, Westropp (1894, 28) recorded the following inscription: ‘UNDER THESE CARVED MARBEL STONES  LIETH CONNOR O’FLANAGA [sic] BODY AND   BONES WHICH MON MENT WAS MADE BY ANABEL HIS WIFE ORATE PRO EIS. LAUS DEO’  In an off-centre lowermost panel, containing low-relief carvings of leaves and flowers, a small head with a finely carved face was identified by Gilmore (1999, 30) who suggested that it might be the mason’s mark. There is an O’Neilan memorial stone (CL017-020012-) nearby to the E on the same wall.    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott    Date of upload: 9-10-2025

• CL017-020012 Memorial stone
  Description

  On the inner face at the E end of the S wall of Killinaboy church (CL017-020001-). This memorial stone (H 2.44m; Wth 1.75m) comprises a square upper stone carved with a now lime-encrusted shield and mantling. Westropp (1894, 28) recorded the following inscription:  DERMOD O'NEILAN AND TEIG O'NEILAN HIS BROTH ER, FOR THEM AND THEIR H  EIRES, MADE THIS SEPULC HER, 1645. Above the inscription is a panel decorated with finely carved low-relief heads and foliate patterns. Beneath the ledge under the inscription is another finely carved low-relief decorative panel of geometric patterns, partly obscured by the edge of a modern grave (Gilmore 1999, 31-32). There is an O’Flanagan memorial stone (CL017-020011-) on the same wall, nearby to the W.    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott    Date of upload: 9-10-2025

• CL017-020013 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated c. 120m S of Killinaboy Church (CL017-020001-) in a field of rough grass on the W side of the road. A double bullaun stone found subsequent to field clearance (Killinaboy History and Heritage Group 2014, 68). A mound of field clearance material including very large stones lies c. 90m W of the bullaun. The stone is an irregularly shaped, earthfast, limestone, boulder (0.98m x 0.88m) with two circular, water-filled hollows on its upper surface. Each hollow is round at the base with sloping sides. The W hollow (diam. at top 0.24m; D 0.16m) and the E hollow (diam. at top 0.27m; D 0.17m) are 0.13m apart. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 3 February 2015

• CL017-020014 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  It is built into the outer face of the S wall of the medieval church (CL017-002001-) above the doorway. The image is described by Freitag (2004, 135) as a figure consisting of a ‘round head with a very grim mouth, an emaciated neck, no breasts and clearly marked ribs. The arms are in front of body with the hands around the genitals. Something seems to pour out of the pudenda. It is in a standing position with the legs apart and slightly bent at knees, feet turned outwards’. (Guest 1936, 115, No. 32; Andersen 1977, 149, No. 85) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien/Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June, 2012

• CL017-056 Bawn
  Description

  In pasture on the N bank of the river Fergus at the bottom of a S-facing slope of an E-W ridge on which Killinaboy church (CL017-020----) can be seen c. 400m to NE. Drawn and labelled as ‘De Clare’s house (in ruins)’ on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map, and as ‘Ruin’ on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. The OS Letters of 1839 (Comber 1997, 17) recorded a tradition (uncorroborated) that this was the home of the Norman lord Richard de Clare before his death in 1318, and was called Cobhail an Chlaraigh Mhuair [‘the great De Clare’s ruins’]. However, MacMahon (1992) and Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997) suggest it was the residence of the 17th-century protestant deans of Kilfenora (see also Westropp 1900, 409).    This well-preserved rectangular bawn (int. dims. 30.9m WNW-ESE; 25m NNE-SSW) of probable late-16th/17th-century date is defined by substantial walls of limestone rubble (H c. 3-4m; Wth c. 1.5m) with a base batter (Ua Cróinín and Breen, 1997). The walls survive almost to original height but are mostly covered in ivy, especially on their outer faces. A late-16th/17th-century house (CL017-056002-) appears to be integrated into the NW corner of the bawn. The bawn entrance, to W of centre in the N wall, is pointed-arched with wickerwork centering. On the W side of the entrance, a wall extends S into the bawn interior but disturbance has removed any evidence of a corresponding wall on the E side of the entrance. Just to the E of the entrance, the bawn wall’s inner face steps-in (L 2m). There is a second entrance doorway (Wth 1.05m; H 2.3m), badly damaged but retaining evidence of a lintel, near the W end of the S wall with a bar-slot on its E side, and two walls project N into the bawn interior on the E and and W sides this S doorway: the W wall (Wth 0.75m) may be the remains of a possible chamber in the SW corner of the bawn. The E wall opposite is largely removed but is bonded to the bawn wall.   At the N end of the bawn’s E wall, the inner face steps in (L 0.8m) to accommodate a small chamber within the wall (int. dims. 2.05m N-S; 1.1m E-W), the interior of which is full of debris. The chamber was lit by a narrow loop in a flat-arched, splayed embrasure with wickerwork centering in the E wall. Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997) recorded a circular staircase at the N end of the chamber.    At the SE corner of the bawn is a projecting rectangular tower (int. dims. 2.5m N-S; 1.25m E-W; H 2.95m) and a recessed parapet (H 1m). The tower is barrel-vaulted and there are simple lights with dressed stone surrounds in its E wall (Wth 0.55m) and W wall. The SE tower does not seem to have had a doorway and was accessed from within the bawn through a passageway (Wth 2.3m) formed, in part, on its E side by a stepping in of the bawn wall, and on its W side by the E wall (Wth 1.2m) of a rectangular building (int. dim. 5.8m N-S) built against the S wall of the bawn. While the foundations of this building’s N sidewall (Wth 0.6m) can be seen, its W end-wall is not traceable, but the building appears to have extended along most of the bawn’s S wall, on the inner face of which at least three corbels which supported the roof of this structure survive. A mound of material within the footprint of this building has formed a platform abutting the bawn wall. In the SW corner of the bawn is a possible chamber (int. dims. 6.05m E-W; 2.5m N-S), although there is no evidence of a N wall and its E wall (Wth 0.75m) is not bonded to the bawn wall.    A mound of rubble forms a rectangular platform (L 13m N-S) against the inner face of the bawn’s W wall. At its N end, the base of a wall (Wth 0.9m) is visible which may be the S wall of the late-16th/17th-century house (CL017-056002-) in the NW corner of the bawn. Near the opposite, S end of the platform is a gun loop in a squared embrasure.    Externally, a drystone wall runs parallel with the bawn’s W wall at a distance of c. 10m away and joins an overgrown lane (Wth c. 3-4m) running NNE (L c. 170m) and defined on its W side by a drystone wall (H c. 1.2m), which may be contemporaneous with the bawn.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott    Date of upload: 9-10-2025

• CL017-056002 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Situated in the NW corner of a bawn (CL017-056----). Depicted as a small square structure on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map. This poorly preserved rectangular building (int. Wth c. 5.6m E-W; traceable L c. 7.5m N-S) is defined along the W and N by the bawn walls, into which the building appears to have been bonded, but only the bases of the internal E wall (Wth 0.7m) and the S wall (Wth 0.9m) survive. A platform (13m N-S) abutting the S wall, obscures this end of the structure, which may have continued further S. (A partly dotted line on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) indicates a narrow rectangular structure possibly running inside the full length (c. 25m) of the W bawn wall.) The pitch of the N gable is visible rising above the ivy-covered N bawn wall and suggests the house may only have been only been of one storey. There is also a large fireplace in the N wall, with a putlog to its E and a cupboard just to the W (described by Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997) as a loop in a splayed embrasure). In the W wall are two cupboards; one at the N end (Wth at base 0.85m; Wth at top 0.45m: H 1.07m) and a second towards the S end.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott   Date of upload: 9-10-2025

• CL017-056003 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Recorded (L c. 600m) on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map (1842) and similarly recorded on the OS 25-inch plan (1893) but with a short section (L c. 60) no longer apparently in use: a broad road or trackway (est. Wth 6-7m) is recorded running NNE from the ‘Cabhail Mór’, a 17th-century bawn (CL017-056---- / from c. ITM 526934 691419) for c. 160m (to c. ITM 526967 691570) and turning sharply W to run W and then WSW for c. 440m to where it meets the ESE-flowing River Fergus (at c ITM 526537 691506). There may have been a ford or bridging point (or ferry?) near its terminus since across the river, c. 200m to the W, another lane is recorded running S from the opposite bank of the Fergus.   The later, Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map shows a long section (L c. 440m) both partially removed and fallen into disuse but also records a substantial surviving section (L c. 160m) running NNE from the ‘Cabhail Mór’ (CL017-056----). When inspected in 1998, this section was found to be bordered along its W side by a drystone wall (H 1.2m) and while the opposite E side boundary had been removed, the route of the track (Wth 3-4m), though overgrown, was still obviously visible at ground level. The line of the road or trackway running W and then WSW (L c. 440m) is still largely preserved in overgrown field boundary walls.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy   Date of upload: 15-10-2025

Architectural heritage

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding double-height former Roman Catholic church, built c. 1850, with three-bay nave and porch to right gable. Now in use as outbuilding. Pitched slate roof with cut-stone bellcote, cast-iron rainwater goods and cut-stone gable copings. Roughcast rendered walls with cast-iron tie plates. Lancet openings with timber Y-tracery and stone sills. Square-headed opening inserted, c. 1975, to accommodate use as outbuilding. Rubble stone boundary walls to site.

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 Killinaboy, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Killinaboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Killinaboy · Cill Iníne Baoith

Area

647,090 m² (64.71 ha, 159.9 acres)

Civil parish

Killinaboy, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Killinaboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

347 people lived in 132 households in the Killinaboy electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunnanagat South, Commons South, Crossard, Elmvale, Leana, Nooan, Roughaun

Placenames

Killinaboy 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.