Killaun
Killaun is a townland in the civil parish of Dromineer, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Coilleán.
- Area
- 136.9 ha
- 338 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 26,013 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killaun, from 1,635 m² to 342,425 m² (34.24 ha, 84.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Killaun 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
5 Aug 2024Conditional
(1) the demolition of an existing pre-fabricated structure to the front of the existing dwelling; (2) the construction of new extension to the side of the existing dwelling; (3) the alterations to the front elevation. RETENTION PERMISSION for an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460639
17 Jul 2024N/a
demolition of an existing pre-fabricated structure to the front of existing dwelling and construction of a new extension to the side of the dwelling and RETENTION PERMISSION for an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460578
25 Sept 2019Conditional
dwelling house, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19601061
7 Sept 2018Conditional
construction of a domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601092
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 Killaun.
Recorded monuments
- TN014-075 Castle - unclassified
Description
There is a strong local tradition that there was a castle at this location. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killaun.
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 Killaun, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killaun.
- 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 Killaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Killaun · An Coilleán
- Area
- 1,369,283 m² (136.93 ha, 338.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromineer, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Monsea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 694 people lived in 252 households in the Monsea electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghbeg, Ballydrinan, Castlesheela, Cushmona, Dromineer, Garraunfadda, Garryduff
- Placenames
- Killaun 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.