Killinroan

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killinroan, from 1,300 m² to 142,338 m² (14.23 ha, 35.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Killinroan 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.

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  for the following works to our existing dwelling; 1. Remove existing chimney 2. Internal renovations and alterations to existing layout 3. Alterations to existing rear ope at first floor level 4. Construction of new rear extension and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560640

• 26 Mar 2024Conditional

  1. Demolish existing single-storey storage area to rear of dwelling, 2. Remove existing chimney, 3. Internal renovations and alterations to existing layout, 4. Alterations to existing rear ope at first floor level, 5. Construction of new rear extension and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460089

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 Killinroan.

Recorded monuments

• WM030-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a roughly circular-shaped natural knoll, in pasture. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1983 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 30m) defined by a band of differential growth around the edge of a natural hillock, which presumably represents a backfilled fosse. According to local information, this monument was a ringfort with a bank approximately 2-3ft in height and was levelled out c. 1980. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 November 2019

• WM030-070001 Burial ground
  Description

  'While examining the site of the destroyed ring fort (a) in Killinroan Td. [see separate note] I was informed by a local farmer of an 'old graveyard' in the townland. On examination this proved to be a quite extensive earthwork, not formerly recorded. The main feature of the site is what appears to be a roughly circular enclosure (WM030-070002-), which survives for approx. 3/4 of its circuit. The enclosing element is a low, but fairly wide, earthen bank. This curves in an arc from E. NE, N, NW, W, SW. On the S side there are non surviving indications of the enclosure. The bank is best preserved on the E, NE, N where it runs along the shoulder of the hill. The land slopes away to N & E. This enclosure has an internal diameter of c. 43m E-W. On the N side of the site the enclosing bank continues to run W from the NW corner of the circular enclosure. It runs along the should of the hill for c. 40m to a point where it intersects with a modern, stone built field wall which run NE - SW. The bank is very well defined towards the W end being c. 1/2m high & c. 1m wide. Much of the ground to S of this bank is rough, with some rock outcrop. On SW there is a large boulder and a bush growing beside it. There are no indications of any special local reverence for this feature. There are no indications of a church building, nor of graves etc., in fact nothing except the local tradition & perhaps the townland name to point to an ecclesiastical association for the site, which looks more like a ring fort with some sort of associated features. The monument is located on the NNE should of a hill in good pasture land. The land slopes away to NE, N & NW. On NW side there is a valley which is broken by natural hills & ridges. The ground slopes genly to S.' (SMR file 1973) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 October 2010

• WM030-070002 Enclosure
  Description

  'While examining the site of the destroyed ring fort (a) in Killinroan Td. [see separate note] I was informed by a local farmer of an 'old graveyard' (WM030-070001-) in the townland. On examination this proved to be a quite extensive earthwork, not formerly recorded. The main feature of the site is what appears to be a roughly circular enclosure, which survives for approx. 3/4 of its circuit. The enclosing element is a low, but fairly wide, earthen bank. This curves in an arc from E. NE, N, NW, W, SW. On the S side there are non surviving indications of the enclosure. The bank is best preserved on the E, NE, N where it runs along the shoulder of the hill. The land slopes away to N & E. This enclosure has an internal diameter of c. 43m E-W. On the N side of the site the enclosing bank continues to run W from the NW corner of the circular enclosure. It runs along the should of the hill for c. 40m to a point where it intersects with a modern, stone built field wall which run NE - SW. The bank is very well defined towards the W end being c. 1/2m high & c. 1m wide. Much of the ground to S of this bank is rough, with some rock outcrop. On SW there is a large boulder and a bush growing beside it. There are no indications of any special local reverence for this feature. There are no indications of a church building, nor of graves etc., in fact nothing except the local tradition & perhaps the townland name to point to an ecclesiastical association for the site, which looks more like a ring fort with some sort of associated features. The site is located on the NNE should of a hill in good pasture land. The land slopes away to NE, N & NW. On NW side there is a valley which is broken by natural hills & ridges. The ground slopes genly to S.' (SMR file 1973) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 October 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killinroan.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0.

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

Name

Killinroan

Area

578,006 m² (57.8 ha, 142.83 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyloughloe, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Carn, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Boyanaghcalry, Clonyegan, Mackanrany, Magheramore, Nahod Little, Nahod More

Placenames

Killinroan 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.