Killavilla

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killavilla, from 100 m² to 118,182 m² (11.82 ha, 29.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Killavilla 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.

• 5 Jul 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF MILKING PARLOUR INCORPORATING DAIRY, PLANT, STORAGE, MEAL BIN, RAIN WATER STORAGE TANK, HOLDING YARD WITH CRUSH/ DRAFTING YARD, UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANK WITH FLOW CHANNEL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22338

• 7 Aug 2018Conditional

  A PROPOSED 4G ALL WEATHER PLAYING PITCH, BALL WALL, PITCH LIGHTING, & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18344

• 6 Apr 2018N/a

  A PROPOSED 4G ALL WEATHER PLAYING PITCH, BALL WALL, PITCH LIGHTING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18157

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roscrea Bog 000583

Recorded monuments

• OF043-055 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Landscape feature such as a tree-ring associated with Killavilla House of post-1700 date. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF043-056 Stone sculpture - iconic
  Description

  Glacial limestone erratic (H 1.45m; Wth 1.3m; T 0.27-0.65m) that has a stone head carved onto its surface which originally was located in a field near to Killavilla House and has since been removed from its original location and is now housed in the National Museum of Ireland (see DU018-209----) when it was acquired from the landowner in 1944. The adjoining field to where the stone was located was known locally as the cillín and in this field there was a low mound (diam. 41m; H 0.6m) surrounded by a shallow fosse (OF043-057----). The upper part of the stone head is pointed and rises to a peak above the forehead (Roe 1945, 263-66). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF043-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on flat land in upland area. Raised circular area (diam 41m; ext. H 0.5m) enclosed by shallow fosse with possible entrance gap (Wth 3.5m) at S. Known locally as the cillin (OF043-057001-) which would suggest that this ringfort was reused as a childrens burial ground (Roe 1945, 263-6). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF043-057001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated on flat land in upland area. Raised circular ringfort (OF043-057) enclosed by shallow fosse with possible entrance gap at S. Known locally as the cillin which would suggest that this ringfort was reused as a childrens burial ground (Roe 1945, 263-6). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF043-066 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted as small circular enclosure on 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Killavilla House, house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with pedimented central entrance bay, entrance porch and additions to rear and side elevations. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and open eaves with paired brackets. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed window opening over entrance porch with coloured sidelights. Segmental-headed door opening to house within entrance porch with timber panelled double doors flanked by clustered colonnettes and sidelights and with glazed fanlight. Rear yard accessed through rendered arch with incorporated bellcote. Cobbled yard to rear with two-storey outbuildings with hipped slate roofs and random coursed walls with red brick and sandstone dressings. Walled garden to north-east of house with two-stage tower to south. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to entrance with hipped slate roof and rendered walls. Projecting entrance bay is flanked by chamfered bays. Decorative cast-iron double entrance gates supported by tooled limestone piers and flanked by pedestrian gates and railings. Site is enclosed by a boundary wall.

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 Killavilla, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1764 (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 Killavilla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Killavilla · Cill an Bhile

Area

2,169,536 m² (216.95 ha, 536.1 acres)

Civil parish

Roscrea, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Gorteen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

291 people lived in 101 households in the Gorteen electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashbury (Co. Tipperary), Ballyduff, Coolanure, Dungar, Gorraun, Kilcreman

Placenames

Killavilla 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.