Killea
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeane, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon
Parcel 713372
- Area
- 73,919 m² (7.39 ha, 18.27 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Killea
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- RO042-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope. Circular, slightly domed grass-covered area (diam. 36.4m NE-SW; 33.7m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-7.7m; int. H 0.4-0.75m; ext. H 0.8-1.05m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.5-6.1m; Wth of base 2.6-3.1m; D 0.75-1.05m) from an outer bank and hedge (Wth 2.4-4.3m; H 0.25-0.35m). There is no identifiable original entrance, and the outer bank and fosse are overlain by a NE-SW field wall at SE (max. ext. diam. 53.7m NE-SW). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1428 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 23.4 ha
- 58 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 41,007 m² (4.1 ha, 10.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killea, from 2,730 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) to 187,863 m² (18.79 ha, 46.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Killea 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Oct 2025Conditional
Permission for the construction of a visual design studio at the site of existing dwelling house and all necessary connections to existing site services/ancillary siteworks at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2569
3 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission for development for new storage shed to rear of property and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360202
12 Aug 2019Conditional
for retention permission and permission for the following (A) Retention is sought for: (I). Changes to the elevations of the 2-storey factory extension completed under planning reference PD/10/381 consisting of: the addition of an external escape staircase, plant, plant protrusions/louvres/associated pipes and ducts and re-arrangement of external doors, windows and roof ridges, overall height increased by approximately 1 metre, (II). The boiler house addition, 31 sq. m. to the rear (north elevation) of said 2 storey extension, (III). 2 No. Boiler and Compressor rooms to rear (north elevation) of original factory block, 11.5 sq. m. each approximately, combined 23 sq. m. approximately, (IV). The addition of 2 lab spaces to original factory block, combined floor space of 90 sq. m. approximately, (V). The addition of ancillary storage and boiler housing units within the open void area of original factory block, 27 sq. m. approximately, (VI). 4 no shipping containers and 2 no prefabs, acting as temporary site storage, combined area 158sq. m., (VII). Gravelled parking area to southern section of site, (VIII). Gravelled service route running along western boundary of site serving rear service area. (B)Permission is sought for: (I). and as previously granted as part of PD/10/381, the demolition of the existing entrance foyer and associated offices to the southern elevation of the building (original factory block), the removal of the existing roof over the entire single storey area of the existing building(original factory block) and the addition of a new roof structure to accommodate storage , office and high ceiling production areas, along with additional ground floor and first floor office and storage space to the building and to the existing open space(open void area) central to the existing building, (original factory block) (II). The provision of additional car-parking spaces to south of site, together with connections to services and all other associated site works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 19407
20 Mar 2017Conditional
for proposed Two Storey Type Dwelling, Garage, Boundary Wall/Fence, Entrance, Wastewater Treatment unit with Percolation Area and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17112
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killea.
Recorded monuments
- RO042-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope. Circular, slightly domed grass-covered area (diam. 36.4m NE-SW; 33.7m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-7.7m; int. H 0.4-0.75m; ext. H 0.8-1.05m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.5-6.1m; Wth of base 2.6-3.1m; D 0.75-1.05m) from an outer bank and hedge (Wth 2.4-4.3m; H 0.25-0.35m). There is no identifiable original entrance, and the outer bank and fosse are overlain by a NE-SW field wall at SE (max. ext. diam. 53.7m NE-SW). 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 Killea.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1428 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Killea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Killea
- Area
- 234,262 m² (23.43 ha, 57.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Mote, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mote electoral division: 1,009 people in 345 households; 89% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymurray, Corgarve, Mote Demesne
- Placenames
- Killea 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.