Killeen or Killeenlynagh

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeen or Killeenlynagh, from 51 m² to 341,736 m² (34.17 ha, 84.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 or Killeenlynagh 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.

• 16 Jul 2026Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660485

• 13 Dec 2023Refused

  construct Storey & A Half Type Dwelling & Domestic Garage with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area With New Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360531

• 20 Nov 2023N/a

  construct a Storey & A Half Type Dwelling & Domestic Garage with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area With New Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360495

• 12 Mar 2019Conditional

  realign road side boundaries as necessary to achieve sight lines at entrance to site and permission to retain (1) domestic garage/shed and (2) changed location of entrance to site

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19142

• 5 Mar 2018Conditional

  construct dwelling house, detached domestic garage/shed, septic tank , percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18116

• 7 Feb 2018Conditional

  construct a storey and a half dwelling house, attached garage, septic tank system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1855

• 6 Feb 2018N/a

  construct a storey and a half dwelling house, attached garage, septic tanbk system and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1853

• 30 May 2017Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation are, new splayed entrance and associated site works at Killeen, Mountmellick, Co.Laois.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17270

• 13 Feb 2017Conditional

  construct extension to private dwelling house to provide a hydrotherapy pool, associated external works and a metal storage shed

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1776

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 or Killeenlynagh.

Recorded monuments

• LA008-009002 Burial ground
  Description

  Depicted on first edition of the OS 6-inch map as a large square shaped graveyard indicated on OS 6-inch map as Killeen Grave Yd. No surface remains visible of graveyard located at base of gentle slope. Square shaped graveyard (int. dims. 85m N-S; 91m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall as indicated on current edition of the OS 6-inch map. The OS letters of 1838 record that 'An old burying place lies in Killeen Townland, where there is also a well called 'Cavagh's (Cavan's?) Well', a name not in general known among the neighbouring inhabitants' (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, p. 67). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 or Killeenlynagh, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Killeen or Killeenlynagh · An Cillín nó Cillín Laighneach

Area

1,949,608 m² (194.96 ha, 481.76 acres)

Civil parish

Ardea, and its townlands

Barony

Portnahinch

Electoral division

Shaen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,001 people lived in 326 households in the Shaen electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintaggart, Brittas, Carn or Curraghane, Coolbanagher, Eyne, Killeen or Killeenlynagh, Kilmainham, Knightstown or Ballinriddery, Shaen

Placenames

Killeen or Killeenlynagh 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.