# Killaroo, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killare, barony of Rathconrath, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 784,245 m² (78.42 ha, 193.79 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,768 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killare, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/killare.md - Barony: Rathconrath - Electoral division: Killare, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Killare electoral division: 369 people in 124 households; 91% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51806 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230803 - Centre: latitude 53.455619, longitude -7.581283 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killaroo, from 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres) to 195,483 m² (19.55 ha, 48.3 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 123175: 195,483 m² (19.55 ha, 48.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123175.md - Parcel 123068: 145,573 m² (14.56 ha, 35.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123068.md - Parcel 123075: 94,629 m² (9.46 ha, 23.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123075.md - Parcel 96796: 87,559 m² (8.76 ha, 21.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/96796.md - Parcel 99089: 51,425 m² (5.14 ha, 12.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/99089.md - Parcel 96918: 36,231 m² (3.62 ha, 8.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/96918.md - Parcel 99108: 25,198 m² (2.52 ha, 6.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/99108.md - Parcel 6190816: 18,839 m² (1.88 ha, 4.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6190816.md - Parcel 99090: 16,868 m² (1.69 ha, 4.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/99090.md - Parcel 99292: 11,486 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/99292.md - Parcel 96976: 10,768 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/96976.md - Parcel 122817: 9,490 m² (0.95 ha, 2.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122817.md - Parcel 96932: 8,403 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/96932.md - Parcel 123201: 7,969 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123201.md - Parcel 120436: 6,278 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120436.md - Parcel 4719534: 5,960 m² (0.6 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4719534.md - Parcel 122819: 4,664 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122819.md - Parcel 123081: 4,136 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123081.md - Parcel 123088: 3,508 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/123088.md - Parcel 4719535: 3,415 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4719535.md - Parcel 99288: 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/99288.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Killaroo 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. - 26 Sept 2023, Westmeath County Council 2360328: Refused. Permission, 1 home. construction of a bungalow type dwelling and domestic garage. Permission is also sought to construct a new site entrance, to erect new site boundaries and for permission to install a septic tank and percolation area together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360328/0 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 Killaroo. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM024-153: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM024-153----. Situated on SSW-facing slope overlooking wet land to WSW, in undulating pasture, with good views to WSW. Annotated 'Fort' and depicted on the 1837 ed. OS Fair Plan map as a large, oval-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the 1876 ed. OS 6-inch map as a modified oval-shaped enclosure which has been incorporated into field fences. Monument described in 1971 as a roughly D-shaped area (dims. 59m E-W; 56m N-S) enclosed by a stone wall of differing widths and heights and may represent a modern enclosing element of a feature which has since been levelled. The interior has a gentle SSW-facing slope. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 August 2019 - WM024-159: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM024-159----. Situated on a steep rocky hillock, in rough, undulating pasture. Ringfort (WM024-160----) lies c. 105m to N. Monument described in 1971 as a small roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank which is almost reduced to a scarp which appears to have been steepened all the way round in relatively modern times. There is no definite trace of an external fosse. No entrance feature visible. The interior rises gently from the perimeter towards the centre. Modern field fences intersect the scarp at W and ESE. The monument is largely obscured by dense vegetation. A house site (WM024-159001-) is visible in the NE quadrant. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 August 2019 - WM024-159001: House - indeterminate date, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM024-159001-. Situated on a steep rocky hillock, in rough, undulating pasture. In the NE quadrant of ringfort (WM024-159----) are the remains of a small, rectangular-shaped house site (dims. 6m NW-SE; 2m NE-SW). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 August 2019 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) - House, 1880–1920, Regional interest, registry number 15402435, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM®no=15402435. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1900, having a central single-bay flat roofed porch to the centre of the front façade (northwest) flanked by canted bay windows to either side. Pitched slate roof with raised rendered verges, cast-iron rainwater goods and a pair of rendered chimneystacks to the centre. Cement rendered walls to ground floor with roughcast rendered walls over to the first floor, separated by a projecting rendered string course. Projecting plinth to base and rasied block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills. Round-headed opening to front face of porch having recessed square-headed doorcase with timber panelled door having glazed surrounds. Set back from road in own grounds with single-storey outbuildings to the north. The site is accessed by an avenue curving down from a pair of cement rendered gate piers. Located to the east of Boher and to the southwest of Loughanavally. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killaroo. - 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/westmeath/killaroo.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/killaroo.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/killaroo.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Killaroo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinlavan: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballinlavan.md - Bessville: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/bessville.md - Bracknahevla: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/bracknahevla.md - Creeve: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/creeve-230505.md - Killeagh: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/killeagh.md - Killeenagh: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/killeenagh.md - Killeenagroagh: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/killeenagroagh.md - Killeenbrack: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/killeenbrack.md - Tullagh Upper or Killeenbane: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/tullagh-upper-or-killeenbane.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. --- 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/westmeath/killaroo - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/killaroo