Killegan
Killegan is a townland in the civil parish of Kilglass, barony of Ballintober North, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 85.2 ha
- 211 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 14,950 m² (1.5 ha, 3.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killegan, from 238 m² to 125,921 m² (12.59 ha, 31.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Killegan 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
11 May 2021Conditional
Retention Permission to: (1) Retain alterations and extension to existing cottage to include larger front porch and roof finish and (2) Retain conversion of existing barn to bedrooms; Permission to: (3) Construct new link from barn to existing house and (4) Upgrade existing treatment system and install new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21236
29 Apr 2021N/a
for 1) Retain alterations and extension to existing cottage to include larger front porch and roof finish. 2) Retain conversion of existing barn to bedrooms. 3) Construct new link from barn to existing house. 4) Upgrade existing treatment system and install new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21212
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 Killegan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killegan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killegan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Killegan, 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 low, 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 Killegan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Killegan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Killegan
- Area
- 852,211 m² (85.22 ha, 210.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilglass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober North
- Electoral division
- Kilglass South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 354 people lived in 136 households in the Kilglass South electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymoylin, Dooan, Kerlagh, Kilbeg, Killastalliff, Knockhall, Legan, Slattagh Beg
- Placenames
- Killegan 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.