# Killala, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballysumaghan, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo; in Irish Cill Eala.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 500,865 m² (50.09 ha, 123.77 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 26,119 m² (2.61 ha, 6.45 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballysumaghan, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/ballysumaghan.md
- Barony: Tirerrill
- Electoral division: Collooney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,188 people lived in 1,209 households in the Collooney electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 65% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45236
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200802
- Centre: latitude 54.176145, longitude -8.412813 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killala, from 2,069 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 166,759 m² (16.68 ha, 41.21 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 762962: 166,759 m² (16.68 ha, 41.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/762962.md
- Parcel 6218270: 125,318 m² (12.53 ha, 30.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6218270.md
- Parcel 762961: 63,854 m² (6.39 ha, 15.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/762961.md
- Parcel 762964: 62,612 m² (6.26 ha, 15.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/762964.md
- Parcel 756930: 35,915 m² (3.59 ha, 8.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/756930.md
- Parcel 2956515: 26,119 m² (2.61 ha, 6.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2956515.md
- Parcel 762965: 6,675 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/762965.md
- Parcel 2458995: 4,226 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2458995.md
- Parcel 727791: 3,770 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/727791.md
- Parcel 4442046: 3,327 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4442046.md
- Parcel 762963: 2,069 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/762963.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Killala in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 9 Jun 2026, Sligo County Council 2660215: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for construction of detached domestic garage with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660215/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killala.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- SL027-020: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL027-020----. In undulating pasture, on the N end of a small ridge; the ground slopes down steeply c. 8m to N. A raised circular area (diam. 19m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m) which is internally faced with large stones. The internal bank height is low along the N arc. There is no clearly defined gap or entrance but the bank is low at E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL027-022: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL027-022----. In rough grazing, on top of a ridge. The westernmost of two adjoining raths (see SL027-023----), the fosses of which are c. 4m apart. A raised circular area (int. diam. 39m) enclosed by an earthen bank and an external fosse. The bank is substantial (Wth c. 8m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 2m) with some traces of internal stone kerbing at W and SW. Traces of possible footings of a stone wall are evident on top of the bank along the S arc. The entrance (Wth c. 5.4m) is at NE with a causeway across the fosse. The fosse (Wth 6m; D 1.1m) is clearly defined all round and apart from the junction with the adjoining rath at E, is surrounded by a terrace (Wth 13m; H 0.6m). The interior is partially covered with overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL027-023: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL027-023----. In rough grazing, on top of a ridge. The easternmost of two adjoining raths (see SL027-022----), the fosses of which are c. 4m apart. A slightly raised circular area (38m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.9m), but truncated NE-SE by a field boundary. An external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.6m) is evident WSW-WNW, at the densely overgrown junction of the two raths. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL027-024: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL027-024----. In poorly drained pasture, on a ridge. A raised circular area (int. diam. c. 30m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and an external fosse. The bank is highest along the N arc (Wth 8.4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2.8m), lower and more slumped (ext. H 1.8m) along the S arc. A possible entrance (Wth 2m) is at E with a possible causeway across the fosse, both densely covered with overgrowth. The fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 0.8m) is evident all round. On either side of the possible entrance a semicircular area (c. 10m x 15m) has been quarried out of the bank and the interior. The perimeter is densely covered with overgrowth and the interior to a lesser extent. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL027-025: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL027-025----. In rough grazing, at the base of the S-facing slope of a ridge. A circular area (int. diam. 29m) defined by the remains of an earthen bank (Wth 6.4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m) SW-N and by a scarp (H 1.2m) elsewhere. An external fosse is evident all round as a shallow depression (Wth 5m; D 0.4m) marked by a growth of rushes. Though there is no clearly defined entrance, there is a causeway (Wth c. 5m) across the fosse at E. The S portion of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope. A low rise (Wth c. 7m) immediately outside the fosse along the SW and E arcs may be the remains of a counterscarp bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Killala, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killala.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/sligo/killala.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/killala.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/killala.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Killala with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ardleebeg: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ardleebeg.md
- Doonally: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonally-200611.md
- Gaddan: https://everytownland.com/sligo/gaddan.md
- Gaddan Beg: https://everytownland.com/sligo/gaddan-beg.md
- Lurgan: https://everytownland.com/sligo/lurgan-200992.md
- Srananagh: https://everytownland.com/sligo/srananagh.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/sligo/killala
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/killala