Killin

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killin, from 24 m² to 339,022 m² (33.9 ha, 83.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Killin 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.

• 18 Jun 2026N/a

  Retention permission for a single story modular timber framed dwelling structure with asssociated site development works. Development consists of one modular unit at a max. height of 3.109m

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660395

• 24 Oct 2018Conditional

  Permission for installation of a temporary mobile home for the duration of the construction of new dwelling as recently granted in planning Ref. No.18389 (construct a single storey dwelling, domestic car port/store, stables, effluent treatment system and percolation aea, new vehicular entrance and all associated site develoment works); The effluent treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18855

• 21 May 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling, domestic car port/store, stables, effluent treament system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18389

• 9 Oct 2017Conditional

  Permission for development will consist of the construction of a new agricultural entrance & all associated site development works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 17753

• 19 Jan 2017Conditional

  Permission for a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and associated site development works. *Significant Further Information submitted 10/04/17*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 1721

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 Killin.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-015001 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. In 1758 Wright published diagrammatic plans and sketches of two hilltop monuments; the larger monument on the main hilltop had 'rude carvings' similar to those at Newgrange (Wright 1758, pls 6, 7). This monument was destroyed by quarrying in 1826 (CLAJ 1907, 60). A decorated stone from the site, published by Evans (1939, 250-4), now lies on the top of Killin Hill at the spot marked 'Druid's Circle (site of)' on the current OS six-inch map. The nineteenth-century descriptions and surviving stone leave little doubt that this monument was a megalithic tomb of the passage-tomb class (see also LH006-015002-). Levelled monument described by Evans (1939, 250-2) as follows; 'The hill rises in two steep summits above the surrounding country, but has been so extensively quarried for limestone that it is difficult to reconstruct the original topography or to relate it to Wright's sketch which is reproduced here. The megaliths, for there were two separate structures, were "completely cleared away" during quarrying operations in the early nineteenth century. Wright's diagrammatic plan and sketch show a stone circle on each summit. The account is very confused and the writer's views freely interwoven with the narrative. The larger monument apparently occupied the higher elevation (? to the south) and consisted of an "altar or cell for sacrifice"? whence the author derives the name "Killing"?" surrounded by a circle of pyramidical stones." "The rude carvings upon the stones that form the altar and cell of the temple are such as I observed in the Cave at Grange (i.e., New Grange) ... I observed a rude sort of carving in the form of a spiral or volute . . . which may with equal propriety signify (having suffered much by time) either a Ram's Horn, a Navel, or a Rotundant Snake." The spiral, which is drawn in a manner clearly intended to reproduce the usual "pecked" technique, is illustrated by Wright (pl. VIB). His plan of the monument is given in the middle lower figure of Borlase's reproduction (fig. 1), which omits, however, a seventh upright partly filling, in Wright's original, the wide gap in the surrounding circle. A ring of boulders inside the circle of monoliths is clearly marked. This may well represent the position of a stone kerb, concealed by remnants of the cairn. Bell, writing nearly seventy years after Wright, could still speak of "a very large, fine crom leach, partially covered with a large cairn, surrounded by pillars. In the interior of the cromleach are sculptured ornaments." Mr. Henry Morris quotes a MS. in the Royal Irish Academy, which gives the following information : "This altar was placed on an artificial bank of earth on the top of the hill, and consisted of large flag-stones fixed in the ground, which formed an oblong about ten feet by four feet, and were covered with huge stones on the top : the height of the upright stones . . . was about five feet three inches. They were not placed close together, and were marked with rude figures resembling plumes on the inside face." These vague descriptions and the sketch are all we have to go on in attempting to classify the chamber. The slab roof puts a close structure analogy with New Grange out of the question; nor is there any hint of a passage. But the tall external upright shown, together with the open side of the chamber, indicate some kind of entrance arrangement. There is also visible what may be an internal partition slab, or even an isolated pillar. At least there can be no doubt, when we consider further the circle of standing stones, the engravings, and the hill-top location of the monument, that the site belongs to the round chambered cairn (passage-grave) group. What gives the engravings special interest is the occurrence of the true spiral, of which there can be little doubt. About the megalith on the lower summit even less can be said. Wright's sketch shows only four standing stones, but his plan has seven stones in a circle, placed inside a larger circle which may be interpreted as the edge of a cairn (fig. 1, bottom right). No dimensions are given'. (Herity 1974, 232; Shee-Twohig 1981, 224) See attached illustrations of Killin Hill taken from Louthiana: Book III. Plate 6r and 7r taken from Digitised version of the copy shelved at V.g.20., Department of Early Printed Books, Trinity College Dublin Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 August 2022

• LH006-015002 Passage tomb art
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Stone bearing passage-grave art is now all that remains of a megalithic tomb (see LH006-015001-) which was destroyed by quarrying in 1826. Decorated stone described by Evans (1939, 250-4) as follows; 'When Mr. H. G. Tempest first took me to the site in 1934 he showed me a large stone lying on the lower hill-top. This, on being turned over, seemed to have traces of engravings. It was not until January, 1938, that I had an opportunity of visiting the hill again, in company with Miss M. Gaffikin, Mr. O. Davies, and Mr. T. G. F. Paterson, when we obtained the rubbing reproduced in fig. 2 and the photograph. The surface of the limestone is so weathered that the markings do not stand out clearly, but we were all satisfied of their genuineness. The minor irregularities of the surface may be due to its having been dressed to take the carvings. Part of what looks like a large spiral can be made out, and an arrangement of concentric lozenges, while there are traces of what appear to be concentric circles between them. The stone is cigar-shaped, measuring 4 ft. 10 in. [1.47m] in length and 18 in. [0.45m] in maximum breadth. One end is broken, and close by is a socket, If in. deep, which probably once held a staple. A shallow groove three inches wide runs down the middle of the engraved face and has on either side, near the middle of the stone, an iron staple. (The white cross in the rubbing is due to the interruption caused by these features.) This must be the stone referred to by Coffey in the following passage. "Mr. Bell, the proprietor . . . showed me one of the slabs in his garden; this has no markings on its exposed face. Another slab is at the forge close by. This, he remembers, was for some time used as a gatepost, and one of its faces was covered with markings. It has since been used for bending hoops, and the incised markings have been almost completely rubbed away. One of the cuttings appeared to have been spiral, and another spiral or concentric circles; some short lines of a branch like form are also visible'. (Herity 1974, 232; Shee-Twohig 1981, 224) See attached rubbing of carved stone and photograph taken from Evans 1938, Fig. 2 and illustration of Killin Hill decorated stone (B) taken from Louthiana: Book III. Plate 6r a taken from Digitised version of the copy shelved at V.g.20., Department of Early Printed Books, Trinity College Dublin Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 August 2022

• LH006-016 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 This, the second of the two monuments published by Wright in 1758 (see also LH006-015001-), stood on a lower hill nearby. His plan shows two concentric rings which appear to represent a cairn of somewhat smaller dimensions than LH006-015001-. He gives no description of this monument, but its proximity to the other cairn and its hilltop siting indicate that it too may have been a passage-tomb. It is not now possible to locate the precise site of this monument which was probably destroyed together with the main hilltop site in the early nineteenth century. (CLAJ 1907, 60)

• LH007-094 Bridge
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated over the Castletown River NW of Castletown Castle, it was built by John Bellew and Dame Mary Birmingham in 1674, according to a stone plaque in the centre of the W wall of the structure. The bridge was repaired in 1880 and the stone plaque re-set. On the upper portion of the stone there is a wreath within which are the arms of Sir John Bellew and his wife. On the lower half of the plaque is the inscription. The stone plaque is slightly recessed and is capped by a late medieval jamb stone from a window. The bridge has five eyes and is built of limestone blocks and greywacke, but the top of the walls have been replaced with modern cut stone. (CLAJ 1905, 23-4)

Architectural heritage

• Fords Bridge, bridge, 1700–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Six-arch road bridge, built c. 1730, over river. Random rubble walls, rubble stone triangular cutwater to east and west, stone coping to parapet. Segmental-headed arched openings with roughly dressed stone voussoirs. Bridge spanning Castletown River.

• Bellews Bridge, bridge, 1670–1675 · Regional interest
  Description

  Six-span stone road-over-river bridge, dated 1674, restored c. 1920. Uncoursed limestone rubble masonry walling, round- headed arches, rubble stone voussoirs, rock-faced granite parapet copings c. 1920, commemorative date plaque to south. Bitmac carriageway. Spans Castletown River.

• Killin, house, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1910. Gable-fronted projecting bay to east, single-storey flat-roofed porch to south-east angle, two-storey canted bays to north and south elevations, four-bay two-storey gable-fronted wing to north-west, single-bay two-storey gable-fronted addition to south-west angle, single-storey flat-roofed extension and uPVC conservatory to west. Hipped slate roof, clay and lead hip and ridges, buff brick corbelled chimneystacks, terracotta crocketed finials to projecting bays, overhanging sprocketed eaves, uPVC and metal moulded gutters. Unpainted ruled-and-lined concrete render walling, projecting plinth, raised channelled quoins, moulded rendered strings to window, continuous sill course, smooth rendered modillioned cornice, recessed triangular pediment to east, painted roughcast rendered panel. Square-headed window openings, paired to ground floor, moulded mullions, concrete sills, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening, painted timber overlight, petal fanlight, multi-paned sidelights, painted timber six-panelled door. Set back from road, landscaped grounds incorporated into golf course, mature woodlands to west and north.

• Catholic Church of the Most Holy Rosary, church/chapel, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic church, built 1850. Projecting gable-fronted sanctuary to east, single-storey flat-roofed porch to south and west, lean-to vestry to north-east. Pitched slate roof, cay ridge tiles, raised gable ridges, stepped pitched stone verge copings, limestone cross finial to east gable, dressed limestone bellcote to west gable, small cross finial to sanctuary gable, stone gable-fronted carved kneelers, tall red brick chimneystack to vestry, corbel eaves course, cast-iron gutters. Squared-and-snecked rubble limestone walling, projecting chamfered plinth, stepped buttresses to nave, clasping buttresses to corners. Pointed-arch window openings, limestone hood mouldings, shoulder stops, chamfered ashlar reveals, flush sills, leaded stained glass windows, tracery windows to chancel and west gable. Tudor-arch opening to porches, square-profile hood moulding, shouldered stops, chamfered ashlar reveals, varnished timber panelled door to west, vertically sheeted to south. Interior with exposed timber rafters, painted plaster walling, gallery to west, carpeted central aisle, timber pews, timber parquet flooring, leaded stained glass windows, window to north nave depicting Doubting Thomas by Michael Healy, 1923. Set within own grounds in elevated site, graveyard to north and east, upright grave markers, rubble stone boundary wall to east, soldier copings, three flights of concrete steps, mild steel handrail.

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 Killin, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2960 (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 Killin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Killin · Cilleán

Area

793,564 m² (79.36 ha, 196.09 acres)

Civil parish

Kane, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Faughart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,065 people lived in 359 households in the Faughart electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balregan, Deerpark, Falmore, Knockagh, Newtownbalregan, Rathduff, Stumpa, Tateetra

Placenames

Killin 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.