Killanthony
Killanthony is a townland in the civil parish of Kilwatermoy, barony of Coshmore and Coshbride, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Cill Fhiontain.
- Area
- 45.4 ha
- 112 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 24,274 m² (2.43 ha, 6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killanthony, from 630 m² to 139,306 m² (13.93 ha, 34.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 2 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 Killanthony 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
22 Jan 2020Conditional
the construction of a new two storey house, a garage, a waste water treatment system, a bored well and an entrance along with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2026
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater River And Estuary 000072
Recorded monuments
- WA029-037 Church
Description
Situated on the floodplain of the NW-SE River Bride, with the S bank c. 200m t the NE, and a small SW-NE stream is c. 160m to the SE. It is marked only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and is thought to be the correct site of Cill Fhionntain - Fintan's church - rather than a location in Fountains (WA029-038001-), c. 350m to the S (Power 1906a, 163). It is not visible at ground level. Power, Rev. P. (1906a) The place-names of the Decies, WAJ 9, 12-39, 80-106, 154-70, 228-65. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killanthony.
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 Killanthony, about 1 in 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1626 (ZIP).
- 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 Killanthony with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Killanthony · Cill Fhiontain
- Area
- 453,552 m² (45.36 ha, 112.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilwatermoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshmore and Coshbride
- Electoral division
- Kilwatermoy East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 130 people lived in 52 households in the Kilwatermoy East electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Fountain, Sapperton North, Snugborough
- Placenames
- Killanthony 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.