Killeen West

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeen West, from 1,334 m² to 201,935 m² (20.19 ha, 49.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Killeen West 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Killeen West in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Killeen West.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-047 Moated site
  Description

  At the outer edge of a shelf towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. Rectangular grass-covered platform (dims 31.6m E-W; 28.5m N-S; H 1-1.6m) defined by flat-bottomed moats (Wth of top 4.8-7m; Wth of base 2.5-5m; D 0.5-1.2m) on all sides except the N where the moat is a band of rushes (Wth 4.4m), with an outer flat-topped bank (Wth of top 3.3m; H 0.5m) at E. It is surrounded by field banks on all sides except the N, and the corners of the platform are slightly raised (max. ext. dims 59m E-W; 46m N-S). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29th September, 2010

• RO022-069001 Crannog
  Description

  Marked as an island (diam. c. 10m) on the 1837 ed. Of the OS 6-inch map and as a peninsula on the 1927 ed. atached to the W shore of Lough Nahincha (dims. c. 170m N-S; c. 140m E-W). Circular overgrown area with a central flat-topped mound (diam. of top 14m N-S; 12m E-W; dims. of base 27m N-S; 22m E-W; H c. 1.5m) of earth and stone which has a sloping shore (Wth c. 3m). Crannog (RO022-069002-) is c. 15m to the E and connected to this site by a silted landbridge. Mound (RO022-153----) is c. 200m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-069002 Crannog
  Description

  Attached to the E shore of Lough Nahincha (dims. c. 170m N-S; c. 140m E-W). Oval overgrown mound (dims. 16m E-W; 9m N-S; H 0.4-0.6m) of earth and stone with a sloping shore (Wth c. 3-4m). Fragments of quernstones are visible on the shore. Crannog (RO022-069001-) is c. 15m to the W and connected to this site by a silted landbridge. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-149 Mound
  Description

  Marked only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low-lying level landscape. Subrectangular grass-covered and flat-topped mound (dims of base 12m NW-SE; 10m NE-SW; dims of top 8m NW-SE; 7m NE-SW) defined by scarps (H 0.3m NW-NE to 0.8-1.1m SE-SW). Immediately to the SW is a fragment of a NW-SE relict field bank (Wth 3.3m; H 0.3-0.4m; L 12m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-153 Mound
  Description

  On a steep S-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered mound (dims of top 6.3m E-W; 5.3m N-S; dims of base 9.6m E-W; 8m N-S) defined by scarps (H 0.2m at N to 0.8m at S). Crannog (RO022-069001-) is c. 200m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Killeen West, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Killeen West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Killeen West

Area

896,684 m² (89.67 ha, 221.58 acres)

Civil parish

Shankill, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Rossmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

169 people lived in 58 households in the Rossmore electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cherryfield or Drishagan, Cloonroughan, Gortnacrannagh, Lurgan, Ross Beg, Ross More East

Placenames

Killeen West 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.