Killeenboy

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeenboy, from 573 m² to 156,880 m² (15.69 ha, 38.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Killeenboy 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.

• 17 Jan 2024Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460008

• 23 Jan 2018Conditional

  Permission to erect a dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, boundary fences, recessed entrance and piers, driveway and footpaths

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 187022

• 28 Nov 2017N/a

  Permission to erect a dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, boundary fences, recessed entrance and piers, driveway and footpaths

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 177215

• 2 Feb 2017Refused

  A single storey bungalow, install septic tank and percolation area, erect timber post and rail front boundary and recessed entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177016

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• WM017-087 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a small prominent rise, in undulating pasture, having good views to S and W with extensive views to N and E. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped enclosure, c. 20m S of a public road. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a horseshoe-shaped earthwork indicating that the site had been partially quarried between these two dates. Described in 1980 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 21m E-W; 16.5m N-W) defined by a low scarp with possible indications of an earthen bank at W. The original entrance is not recognisable and there is no indication of an external fosse. This monument has been extensively disturbed where part of the perimeter at N and most of the interior having been quarried out. The excavated area consists of a shallow depression with small field clearance stones deposited within. Small areas of the interior at E, S and W have been retained. The perimeter has been disturbed by livestock in places and the site is overgrown with vegetation. A preservation order was placed on this monument on the 11/11/1983. Monument visible today as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted enclosure on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 20 December 2018

Architectural heritage

• The Manse, manse, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former Presbyterian Manse on L-shaped plan, built c.1850, having a two-storey return to the rear at the southwest corner and a stairs return to the rear (west). Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves with three moulded chimneystacks, two to the centre of the main façade and one to the return to the southwest, having terracotta chimney pots over. Lime rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to the first floor openings and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to the ground floor openings. Round-headed window opening to the stairs return to the rear (west) having margin glazing bars. Central segmental-headed doorway to the main elevation (east) having a timber panelled door (with beaded muntins), moulded surround and with a plain overlight above. Interior remains largely intact with panelled timber doors, marble chimney pieces, cast-iron fireplaces and decorative plaster motifs to the ceilings. Set back from road in own grounds to the south of Moyvore and the north of Ballymore. Main entrance gate to the east having cast-iron railings with fluer-de-lis finials aligned along either side of approach avenue.

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).

No address of the register names Killeenboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Killeenboy

Area

1,096,007 m² (109.6 ha, 270.83 acres)

Civil parish

Killare, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Ballymore, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacallen, Duneel, Mullaghcloe, Shinglis

Placenames

Killeenboy on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.