Killeen

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeen, from 204 m² to 212,507 m² (21.25 ha, 52.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 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.

• 18 May 2025Conditional

  a two-storey dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, entrance, and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560463

• 2 Apr 2024N/a

  the renovations to existing cottage, elevational alterations and for the construction of a new extension to the rear, installation of a septic tank and percolation area, proposed new entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460277

• 28 Oct 2022N/a

  the change of house type under permitted governing planning permission reference number 20/504 together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221164

• 12 Jun 2020Conditional

  the demolition of derelict cottage and the construction of a storey & a half dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, proposed new entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20504

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.

Recorded monuments

• LI049-114 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, 380m E of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Ballingarry. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp with fosse from N-E-SE and SW-W, truncated at NW by a road running N-S and at S by a post-1700 field boundary running E-W. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped area (diam. c. 45m NW-SE; 40m NE-SW) defined by a scarp and fosse incorporated into a field boundary. A trigonometrical station marking 499 ft. OD is depicted in the NE quadrant. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of ‘two small forts about the centre of the td., one called Rahasteen, the other has a Trigl. Station erected on it called Killeen and stand adjacent to an old road bearing N.’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 229). Faint trace of levelled monument visible as a circular cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 October 2021

• LI049-115 Church
  Description

  No surface remains visible of Ardarinnaghta Church. Westropp (1904-5, 454) recorded the following details about Ardorinnaghta/Ardarinnaghta Church; 'A church site'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 June 2019

• LI049-116 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, 120m W of Ahatemple Stream that runs N-S, a barrow (LI049-0268----) and enclosure (LI049-117----) lies 140m to the SE and 150m to the NE, respectively. Annotated 'Rahasteen' on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 29m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a scarp, with fosse at N. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of ‘two small forts about the centre of the td., one called Rahasteen (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 229). Monument visible as raised oval shaped area defined by a fosse on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Cultivation ridges are visible running across interior of monument on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 October 2021

• LI049-117 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, immediately S of the Ahatemple Stream, enclosure (LI049-116----) lies 140m to the SW. Not marked on historic OSi 6 maps. Potential enclosure identified as a D-shaped cropmark intersected at NE and E, by Ahatemple Stream running NW-SE on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; Site 3/26) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as a roughly D-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Cropmark of irregular-shaped earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 October 2021

• LI049-118 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, immediately W of an earthwork complex (LI049-119----). Not marked on historic OSi 6 maps. Potential enclosure identified as a D-shaped cropmark intersected at E, by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; Site 3/25) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as circular cropmark ( diam. c. 31m) truncated at E by a post-1700 field boundary on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Cropmark clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 2 November 2021

• LI049-119 Field system
  Description

  In pasture, immediately W of townland boundary with Spittle, an earthwork (LI049-118----) lies to the immediate W. Not marked on historic OSi 6 maps. Potential earthwork complex identified a number of linear banks and circular cropmarks on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; Site 3/40) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as linear and circular cropmarks on OSi orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Cropmark clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 2 November 2021

• LI049-268 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In wet pasture immediately W of the Ahatemple Stream. Enclosure (LI049-116----) lies 145m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (341) 14) dated 05-01-2003 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Outline of ditch-barrow clearly visible on Digital Globe orthoimage takane between 2011-13. See oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (341) 14) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 5 October 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Killeen · An Cillín

Area

2,046,586 m² (204.66 ha, 505.72 acres)

Civil parish

Ballylanders, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Ballylanders, the unit of the census

Census 2022

659 people lived in 257 households in the Ballylanders electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingarry, Ballylanders, Duntryleague, Knockaunavlyman, Newtown, Spittle

Placenames

Killeen 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.