Killininneen

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killininneen, from 657 m² to 435,887 m² (43.59 ha, 107.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Killininneen 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.

• 29 May 2024Conditional

  new forestry road and associated vehicular entrance onto R390 together with all associated site development works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2437

• 5 Jul 2023Refused

  new forestry road and associated vehicular entrance onto R390 together with all associated site development works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 23102

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 Killininneen.

Recorded monuments

• WM023-056 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a small, round-topped rise, in gently undulating pasture. Killininneen House built on site of Killininneen Castle (WM023-058----) 350m to ENE. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Levelled monument described in 1971 as circular-shaped area (dims. 25m N-S; 20.3m E-W) defined by a narrow band (Wth 1.2m) of light green grass in stark contrast with the surrounding vegetation. This distinctive band of vegetation presumably marks the site of the backfilled fosse. There is a break (Wth 3.4m) in the band at W which may signify the location of the entrance gap. The interior rises slightly from the perimeter towards the centre. No surface remains visible today of levelled monument on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 25 July 2019

• WM023-058 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a W-facing slope, in a farmyard associated with Killininneen House that was built c. 1850 possibly incorporating fabric from the medieval castle (www.buildingsofireland.ie; Reg. No. 15402306). Tower house type structure depicted standing on the W side of 'The Highway from Athlone to Dublin' on the Down Survey map of Drumraney parish (NLI MS 723-4). On this map Walterstown Castle (WM023-055----) is shown standing N of the same roadway to the W of Killininneen Castle (ibid.). On the Down Survey map the castle is shown standing on the lands of John Dillon of 'Killenenine'. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a T-shaped structure building annotated 'Killininneen Castle'. The Ordnance Survey Namebook for this site recorded the following; 'This old castle is about 100 links [20m] long and 40 [8m] wide. It is now in ruins' (OSNB 15, 27). On the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map this building depicted as being replaced by an irregular-shaped structure on a larger footprint, annotated ‘Killininneen House on site of Killininneen Castle’. Castle site described in 1981 as no surface remains visible of the medieval castle of Killininneen. Some of the farm buildings may have been built using stone from the castle, however there is no cut stone visible. According to local information the existing footprint of Killininneen House and outbuildings were built on the site of ‘an old castle’. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 25 July 2019

• WM023-087 Mass-rock
  Description

  According to local information this natural rock outcrop served as a mass rock for the local people during penal times (pers. comm. Marie Seery, 01/05/2019). A crucifixion slab of post-1700 date which was used as a window sill in the adjoining cottage ruins to SW was taken from this building and is now kept in nearby Coolvuck House. It is possible that the cottage to the SW of the mass rock was the residence of an R. C. priest during penal times. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 02 May 2019

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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 Killininneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Killininneen

Area

1,116,487 m² (111.65 ha, 275.89 acres)

Civil parish

Drumraney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Ardnagragh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagragh (digby), Ardnagragh (gray), Bryanmore Upper, Carrickaneha, Killeennanam, Oldtown Or Puddingstreet, Pishanagh, Walderstown

Placenames

Killininneen 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.