Killard

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killard, from 1,857 m² to 413,459 m² (41.35 ha, 102.17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Killard 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.

• 4 Feb 2025Conditional

  a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2523

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 Killard.

Recorded monuments

• LI028-133 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. However, of earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.25m) survives WNW->NNW. Site was levelled in 1978 and described at that time as roughly circular area defined by low scarped edge SW->N, and enclosed elsewhere by low earthen bank except S->SSW where a section had been levelled some time previously (OPW top. files). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-135 Moated site
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope and just below top of low rise. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked trapezoidal enclosure (c. 60m NW-SE; c. 50m SW-NE) and as trapezoidal field on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. According to local information, enclosure and surrounding field boundaries levelled in 1979, with enclosing bank on N side c. 2m high with an external fosse. Slight rise noted in area of site with scarp (H 0.55m) evident NNW->NE. Listed as a moated site by Barry (Barry 1981, 84; site no. 25) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killard.

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 Killard, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_463 (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 Killard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Killard · Cill Ard

Area

819,971 m² (82 ha, 202.62 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Ardagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,037 people lived in 384 households in the Ardagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylahiff, Coolacokery, Dromrahnee, Farranatlaba, Garranekeevan, Kilrodane

Placenames

Killard 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.