Killeen

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeen, from 145 m² to 123,540 m² (12.35 ha, 30.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

• 22 Aug 2022Conditional

  for the following at the existing Glenlo Abbey Hotel (Protected Structures no. 3441 and 3952). Demolition of the existing driving range building and associated 22 No. driving range bays. Construction of new single storey Golf Academy to include 30 No. covered Driving Range Bays, Pro Golf Shop, Changing Facilities, High Performance Golf Training Facility, Restaurant, Retail Store, Kitchens, along with Hotel Administration Offices, Staff Canteen and Ancillary Accommodation, together with all associated services and ancillary site works, including alteration and extension of the adjacent carpark. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning authority with this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1102 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22992

• 18 Apr 2018Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works 292sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18469

• 10 Aug 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and sewage treatment system. Gross floor space of works Dwelling 346sqm, Garage 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171212

• 29 Jun 2017Conditional

  of dwelling and existing outhouses on altered site boundaries and for planning permission to construct a sewage treatment system (gross floor space 215sqm)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17953

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA082-051 Designed landscape feature
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Killeen House, country house, 1835–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding five-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, built 1837, substantially refurbished in 1963, having limestone two-storey box-bay with crenellated parapet, additional canted- and box-bay windows having flat-roofed balconies to front (south-east) elevation, return to south end of rear elevation, additional projecting bays to south-west side of return and various additions to rear linking house with converted outbuildings of rear yard. Double-pile pitched artificial slate roof to house, pitched artificial slate roofs to return and additions to south-west side and rear elevations, flat roofs to canted- and box-bay windows, glazed lean-to roof to lean-to addition, artificial slate-clad water tank, rendered chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with projecting chimneybreasts. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with moulded render cornice to canted-bay windows and channel to plinth level. Snecked rusticated limestone block walls to crenellated box-bay with ogee-headed recesses to side elevations, crenellated parapet wall with stone capping having single square-headed window opening with granite sill, tooled limestone hood-moulding with corbels and replacement timber casement window to ground floor and round-headed window opening to first floor having concrete sill and replacement timber casement window flanked by round-headed recesses. Square-headed window openings to main body of house having painted concrete sills and replacement timber casement windows throughout with single iron casement window to rear elevation. Square-headed door openings having rendered hood-mouldings on decorative stone corbels with flanking lion mask mouldings, replacement timber panelled door with overlight to front elevation, timber glazed door with overlight, double-leaf timber panelled door with overlight to north-east side elevations and glazed uPVC door to rear elevation. Stone paving surrounds house with occasional groups of tooled limestone octagonal slabs. Yard to rear of house having converted outbuildings to accommodation and storage areas. Crenellated rubble-stone enclosing wall with single-stage round tower and bellcote with cast-iron bell over segmental-headed arch with tooled limestone voussoirs and wrought-iron gate to south-east. Cast-iron lamp posts around driveway. Crenellated coursed stone block boundary walls with crenellated stone block piers having tooled stone finials, recent electric lamps and decorative wrought-iron gates.

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_429 (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 Killeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Killeen · An Cillín

Area

357,797 m² (35.78 ha, 88.41 acres)

Civil parish

Rahoon, and its townlands

Barony

Galway

Electoral division

Barna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,866 people lived in 1,287 households in the Barna electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brownville, Gortatleva, Kentfield, Tonacurragh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

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.