Killeen

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeen, from 226 m² to 93,451 m² (9.35 ha, 23.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 9 Sept 2025Conditional

  THE DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560616

• 19 Nov 2024Conditional

  extend existing creche on site together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24487

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  construct a proposed new dwelling house, garage, septic tank system and percolation area complete with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23309

• 26 Oct 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCT A PROPOSED NEW DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA COMPLETE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 211136

• 14 Mar 2017Conditional

  ERECT COMMUNITY HALL FACILITY INCORPORATING A COMMITTEE ROOM, CHANGING ROOMS, KITCHEN, SHOP AREA, MEETING ROOMS AND CONNECT TO A PROPOSED PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17176

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.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killeen.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1832; consecrated 1832, on a cruciform plan comprising two-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height shallow chancel to crossing (south). Renovated, 1940. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan, pressed ridges with flat iron Cross finial to apex to entrance (north) front, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Pointed-arch window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass quatrefoils. Pointed-arch window openings (transepts) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed door opening to entrance (north) front with threshold, and rendered doorcase with pilasters supporting ogee-detailed cornice on blind frieze below gabled blocking course framing replacement timber panelled double doors. Pointed-arch window opening (gable) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings with hood moulding framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass quatrefoil. Interior including vestibule (north); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior open into roof with timber panelled choir gallery (north) on chamfered timber posts, carpeted central aisle between timber pews, timber boarded wainscoting with timber dado rail, timber stations between frosted glass windows, pair of cut-white marble Classical-style wall monuments (1866; 1871), pair of stained glass memorial windows (1917), carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary to crossing (south) reordered, ----, with Gothic-style altar below Classical-style reredos, and exposed strutted collared timber roof construction with wind braced timber boarded ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

• Tighe Achadh Mór, house, 1920–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey house with dormer attic, post-1920, on a symmetrical plan. Refenestrated, 2009. Hipped slate roof with roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, rendered, ruled and lined chimney stacks on axis with ridge having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, rooflights to rear (south) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having "Cavetto"-detailed consoles. Gritdashed roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening with threshold, and rendered surround with panelled pilasters centred on keystone framing timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set back from line of street in landscaped grounds with hedge boundary to perimeter centred on wrought iron gate.

• Rogers, house, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey house, extant 1838, on a T-shaped plan originally four-bay single-storey thatched on a rectangular plan; single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey off-central return (south). Part refenestrated, ----. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves; pitched slate roof (south) with ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered battered walls with rusticated rendered piers to ends; roughcast battered walls (south) bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered strips to ends. Square-headed off-central door opening with rendered surround framing timber panelled door having overlight. Rendered shopfront (east) on a symmetrical plan centred on glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings (west) with concrete sills, and rendered surrounds framing replacement fixed-pane timber windows. Square-headed window openings (south) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings having splayed reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Street fronted.

• House, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry house, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan. Vacated, 1961. Restored, 1998, to accommodate occasional alternative use. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with roll moulded clay or terracotta ridge tiles, lichen-spotted coping to gables with red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped stringcourses below lichen-spotted concrete capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to street.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Killeen · An Cillín

Area

630,332 m² (63.03 ha, 155.76 acres)

Civil parish

Aghamore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Aghamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghamore electoral division: 650 people in 241 households; 82% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore, Lugbrack, Mountaincommon

Placenames

Killeen 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.