Killowen
Killowen is a townland in the civil parish of Garrycoyne, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cill Eoin.
Parcel 2300899
- Area
- 3,761 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Killowen
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 118.4 ha
- 293 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 3,534 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- City Hinterland
- Planning
- 30
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killowen, from 235 m² to 446,573 m² (44.66 ha, 110.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5City Hinterland (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation), Cork City · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 May 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for construction of a two storey dwelling house, single storey detached garage, installation of on-site effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1141
11 Apr 2025Conditional
Permission for Retention and Completion of the following – 1) The construction of a single storey extension to the southern side of the original dwelling. 2) Changes to the elevations of the original dwelling and changes to the elevations of the two storey extension from that granted under reference 23/4717.
Retention · Cork County Council, 25/4663
27 Mar 2025Application withdrawn
Planning permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4530
19 Apr 2024Refused
Permission for construction of a two storey dwelling house, construction of a single storey domestic garage, relocation of existing vehicular access to site, installation of wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4663
28 Mar 2024Incompleted application
Permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, construction of a single storey domestic garage, relocation of existing vehicular access to site, installation of wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4537
14 Apr 2023Conditional
1)The construction of a two-storey extension to their existing dwelling, including alterations to the existing elevations. 2)The construction of a detached domestic garage. 3)The decommissioning of an existing septic tank serving the dwelling and the installation of a treatment unit and polishing filter and carrying out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4717
3 Oct 2022Refused
Construction of a dwelling and detached domestic garage, installation of a treatment unit and percolation area and carrying out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6214
31 Jan 2022Conditional
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, installation of waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4167
24 Apr 2018Conditional
Construct roofed feeding passages with cubicles and slatted tanks and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5011
1 Sept 2016Conditional
Construcion of dwellinghouse (Alteration of house design and relocation of house on site as granted under Planning Permission Ref. No. 09/6488 and Extension of Duration Ref. No.13/6513), Permission for demolition of unauthorized domestic shed and Permission for construction of domestic garage/store
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6196
21 Aug 2015Conditional
Construction of new extension to side and rear of existing single storey dwelling along with alterations to existing facades, upgrade to existing sewerage system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5881
31 Dec 2013Unconditional
Dwellinghouse and installation of treatment plant and ancillary site works, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 09/6488
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/6513
11 Nov 2013Refused
Construction of a two storey dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6144
23 Oct 2013Incompleted application
Construction of a two-storey dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6029
4 Apr 2012Refused
Construction of a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4663
29 Sept 2011Unconditional
Completion of dwelling as permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 06/5287
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/6082
31 Aug 2011Withdrawn
Construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5878
10 Mar 2010Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4553
27 Nov 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7766
27 Nov 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7763
24 Jul 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse and installation of treatment plant and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6488
17 Jul 2009Incompleted application
Construction of dwelling house, installation of treatment plant & ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6380
7 Jul 2009Conditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse, garage, biocycle treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6258
18 Jun 2009Conditional
Dwelling with attached garage, septic tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5994
3 Jun 2009Incompleted application
Storey-and-a-half dwelling, garage, biocycle treatment unit & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5797
The 25 most recent of 30 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Shournagh Valley 000103
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killowen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killowen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Killowen, 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 Killowen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Killowen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Killowen · Cill Eoin
- Area
- 1,183,814 m² (118.38 ha, 292.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Garrycoyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Blarney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 683 people lived in 213 households in the Blarney electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dawstown, Knocknalyre, Knocknasuff, Loughane East
- Placenames
- Killowen 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.