Killyrean Upper

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killyrean Upper, from 1,640 m² to 71,386 m² (7.14 ha, 17.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Killyrean Upper 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.

• 19 Mar 2025Conditional

  permission to construct a slatted shed with underground storage tank and all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560111

• 24 May 2023Conditional

  permission for retention and completion of derelict dwelling including new storey and a half extension to west, plus installation of waste water treatment system and percolation area and new vehicle entrance with associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360082

• 8 Oct 2018Conditional

  permission for the installation of a sewerage treatment unit and percolation area, to decommission and replace the existing unit that services the site presently and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18464

• 8 Mar 2018Conditional

  Permission to retain existing single storey building, formerly Killyrane National School, which is a proposed protected structure, as a residential building. Retention and use of existing entrance gates. Elevational changes and construction of a new single storey flat roofed extension to North West elevation. Elevational changes to South West elevation and all ancillary site development

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1897

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 Killyrean Upper.

Recorded monuments

• MO004-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of the E-facing slope of a N-S drumlin ridge and c. 200m NW of the NW angle of Monmurry Lough a subrectangular lake (dims c. 250m N-S; c. 100-140m E-W). A circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map as defined by a field bank but it is described in gothic lettering as a 'fort'. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 25 July 2017 Marked 'Fort' on 1835 OS 6-inch map. No visible surface traces.

Architectural heritage

• Killyrane National School, school, 1955–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached national school, dated 1958, consisting of six-bay double-height main block having U-plan seven-bay single-storey flat-roofed block to north-west elevation, end-bays of main block fronted by single-storey projections. Sprocketed pitched slate roof to main block with roughcast rendered central chimneystack, flat roof to single-storey block having smooth rendered eaves course. Cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. Harl rendered walls with smooth render plinth course. Inscribed painted name plaque to front (north-east) elevation. Square-headed window openings having raised render reveals, concrete sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Timber-framed clerestory windows to north-west elevation of main block. Timber-framed window to north-west elevation of projection to front. Square-headed door opening to front with concrete canopy on squared rubble limestone engaged pilasters flanking timber battened door. Door opens onto concrete platform having cast-iron boot-scraper, flanked by square-plan masonry walled flower beds. Square-headed door opening to recessed centre bay of single-storey block, with timber battened door opening on to masonry step. Concrete yard and single-storey flat-roofed shelter with roughcast-rendered walls, colonnaded front and adjoining square-profile water tower to north-west of school. Low roughcast rendered boundary wall to front having double-leaf vehicular gate flanked by piers and stiles.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killyrean Upper.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Killyrean Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Killyrean Upper · Coillidh Raithin Uachtarach

Area

696,710 m² (69.67 ha, 172.16 acres)

Civil parish

Donagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Emyvale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Emyvale electoral division: 1,158 people in 446 households; 67% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahone, Dernahatten, Knocknasave, Monmurry, Mullaghboy, Tonyshandeny

Placenames

Killyrean Upper 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.