Kilkeeran

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilkeeran, from 16 m² to 153,230 m² (15.32 ha, 37.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 53 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 Kilkeeran 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.

• 24 Feb 2025Conditional

  change of house design from that previously approved planning permission under planning reference no. P15/799 and P15/7990 along with all associated services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2569

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

• 15 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND UPGRADE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17993

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
• Special Protection Area: Lough Carra SPA 004051
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774

Recorded monuments

• MA099-025001 Church
  Description

  On high ground overlooking Lough Carra to E. Ivy-clad remains of recatngular church (7.7m N-S; 15.6m E-W), built of roughly coursed ashlar blocks. N and S walls very low and featureless. E gable contains large Romanesque window. W gable contains doorway (H 1.8 m), splayed internally. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 619. Date of upload: 22 January 2013

• MA099-025002 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA099-026 Church
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope on W shore of Lough Carra. Church (MA099-025001-) 200m SW. Unenclosed foundations of small, rectangular structure (L 14.8m; Wth 7.7m), walls grass covered. Stone field fence overlies S wall. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 620. Date of upload: 22 January 2013

• MA109-006 Church
  Description

  In pasture, in a field called 'Teampaleem' (local information). One of three (MA099-026----), (MA099-025001-) churches in the townland. Much-ruined rectangular church (7.8m N-S; 16m E-W). Only NE corner and sod-covered, lower courses survive. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 621. Date of upload: 21 February 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Kilkeeran.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilkeeran · Cill Chiaráin

Area

1,408,847 m² (140.88 ha, 348.13 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyovey, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Portroyal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

603 people lived in 220 households in the Portroyal electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaslee, Carrowmoney, Cloonlagheen, Knockaleanore, Portroyal

Placenames

Kilkeeran 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.