Killan

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killan, from 307 m² to 152,065 m² (15.21 ha, 37.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Killan 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 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct single storey detached dwelling with detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto existing public roadway, driveway, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, landscaping boundaries and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560538

• 15 Feb 2023Conditional

  for the renovation and extension of an existing dwelling, new domestic garage, installation of an advanced wastewater treatment system and percolation area, upgrade existing site entrance with walls and piers, and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2347

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 Killan.

Recorded monuments

• CV028-027001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a knoll in an undulating landscape and at the head of a valley that extends off to the NE. The headwaters of a stream that follows the valley to debouch into Milltown Lough are in the immediate vicinity. This is the parish church of Killane parish, which was dedicated to St. Anne. The parish was broken up in 1778 when most of it became Shercock parish but 29 townlands, including Killan, were joined with others from Moybologe parish to form the parish of Bailieborough (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 99). During the fifteenth century part of the tithes of the parish were paid to the St Mary’s Augustinian abbey of Kells (ME017-044039-) (Kelly 2017, 35). An effort was made to raise money for its refurbishment as a place of Protestant worship in 1630s (ibid. 292). The remains consist of the NE gable of a rectangular church (ext. dims 22.95m NE-SW; 8.6m NW-SE; int. dims 15.8m NE-SW; 6.23m NW-SE) but most of the long walls are missing, apart from where they are incorporated into a mausoleum at its SW end. There are no surviving quoinstones but the SW wall has a large base-batter. The NE gable has been conserved to the apex with a crudely pointed central window opening (ext. Wth 1m; H 1.8m). The inaccessible barrel-vaulted mausoleum has a NW-SE barrel-vault (int. dims c. 4m NE-SW; 6.25m NW-SE), a light on the SE wall, and a sealed doorway from the nave. This now has a plaque of probable eighteenth century date claiming the vault for the Cosby family. A piece of a window jamb with a rebate for an external shutter is used as a grave-marker in the graveyard. The church is in a circular graveyard (diam. c. 70m NE-SW; c. 65m NW-SE) with few headstones defined by a slight bank with an external stone facing and by a masonry wall at the roadside S-W. A well, which is a natural spring at the base of some rock outcrop is c. 25m outside the graveyard to the NW but there is no indication that it is a holy well. St Anne’s holy well (CV028-028----) is c. 370m to the NE. (Davies 1948, 76) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 December 2008 Amended: 16 March 2020

• CV028-027002 Well
  Description

  Situated on a knoll in an undulating landscape and at the head of a valley that extends off to the NE. This well which is a natural spring at the base of some rock outcrop is c. 25m outside the graveyard (CV038-027003-) to the NW but there is no indication that it is a holy well. A seasonal stream runs off the N to join the headwaters of a stream that follows the valley to debouch into Milltown Lough. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 March 2020

• CV028-027003 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a knoll in an undulating landscape and at the head of a valley that extends off to the NE. The headwaters of a stream that follows the valley to debouch into Milltown Lough are in the immediate vicinity. The parish church of Killane (CV028-027----) is within a circular graveyard (diam. c. 70m NE-SW; c. 65m NW-SE) with few headstones defined by a slight bank and hedge with an external stone facing and by a masonry wall at the roadside S-W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 16 March 2020

• CV028-027004 Mausoleum
  Description

  Situated on a knoll in an undulating landscape and at the head of a valley that extends off to the NE. Incorporated into the SW end of the parish church of Killane (CV028-027001-) is a sealed and inaccessible mausoleum (int. dims c. 4m NE-SW; 6.25m NW-SE) that has a NW-SE barrel-vault, a light on the SE wall, and a sealed doorway from the nave of the church. The blocked doorway now has a sandstone plaque (Wth 0.45m; H 0.56m) of probable eighteenth century date claiming the vault for the Cosby family. In a roundel is an image of a griffin with a broken spear in false relief. Beneath this is the inscription: THIS IS THE ANCIENT VAULT / OF THE COSBY FAMILY WHICH / FOR GENERATIONS HELD / A PROMINENT POSITION IN / THE COUNTY OF CAVAN. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 16 March 2020

• CV028-028 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on all OS eds. Situated in low-lying ground near a stream. No visible remains at ground level. Killan church lies 400m to SW (CV028-027001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

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

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 Killan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Killan

Area

921,185 m² (92.12 ha, 227.63 acres)

Civil parish

Bailieborough, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Bailieborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bailieborough electoral division: 4,230 people in 1,546 households; 73% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corlattycarroll, Crocklusty, Derrynure, Drumad, Gartnaneane, Nolagh, Rabane

Placenames

Killan 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.