Killowny
Killowny is a townland in the civil parish of Kilroan, barony of Courceys, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cill Uaithne.
Parcel 2328966
- Area
- 53,844 m² (5.38 ha, 13.31 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 540 m².
- 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
- Killowny
Planning applications on this parcel
9 Jun 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7173
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- 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.
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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
- 99.4 ha
- 246 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 13,375 m² (1.34 ha, 3.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killowny, from 949 m² to 220,576 m² (22.06 ha, 54.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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
No zone of a development plan covers Killowny 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission for; 1) Construction of a single storey pitched roof extension to the side of an existing dwelling, linking the dwelling to an existing unauthorised ancillary accommodation & 2) New pitched roof in place of the existing flat roof over the detached ancillary accommodation. Permission for retention of 1) Existing detached ancillary accommodation as an extension to the existing dwelling (joined via the proposed link extension above to form a single dwelling unit) & 2) Detached garage structure to the rear of the site.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6317
16 Oct 2023Conditional
Permission the construction of a new detached dwelling house, detached garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6087
28 May 2018Refused
Retention of change of use and conversion of garage into a one bedroom apartment, including elevational alterations
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/5387
9 Jun 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7173
27 Nov 2006Conditional
Re-roofing of cow shed and construction of extension incorporating slatted slurry storage to cover open soiled yard and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12719
1 Sept 2003Conditional
Installation of waste disposal unit for thermal destruction of animal materials and remains
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4369
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killowny.
Recorded monuments
- CO125-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Levelled; circular area (c. 34.5m N-S; c. 36m E-W) defined by low curving rise to N; slight rise to S; slight traces of fosse N->NE. According to landowner, large stones uncovered when site ploughed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killowny.
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 Killowny, 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 high, 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 Killowny.
- 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 Killowny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Killowny · Cill Uaithne
- Area
- 993,818 m² (99.38 ha, 245.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilroan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Courceys
- Electoral division
- Ballymackean, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 398 people lived in 138 households in the Ballymackean electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Courtaparteen, Dooneen Lower, Dooneen Upper, Knockgorm
- Placenames
- Killowny 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.