Killamurren
Townland in the civil parish of Gortroe, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Cill Mhuirín
- Area
- 135.1 ha
- 334 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 112,149 m² (11.21 ha, 27.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killamurren, from 648 m² to 294,219 m² (29.42 ha, 72.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Killamurren 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
12 Feb 2025Refused
Permission to erect a single storey dwelling house, install septic tank and percolation area, upgrade existing site entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4199
2 Sept 2024Conditional permission
Permission for construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage, to upgrade the existing entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5647
15 Aug 2024Incompleted application
Permission for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, to upgrade the existing entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5543
13 Jun 2023Refused
Construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage, to upgrade the existing entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5204
8 May 2023Incompleted application
Construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage, to upgrade the existing entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4902
21 Feb 2023Conditional
Construction of a slatted unit, silage slab, concrete apron and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4291
12 Apr 2021Conditional
Construction of a calf house, seepage tank and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4936
19 Mar 2021Conditional
a) Permission for retention and completion of detached single storey home office/gym, b) permission for retention of treatment unit to serve existing dwellinghouse and proposed home office/gym, c) permission for upgrading of percolation area, d) permission for retention for garage as constructed, f) permission for retention of revised site boundary and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4702
9 Mar 2021Conditional
Installation of a cattle underpass, soiled water tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4600
9 Mar 2021Incompleted application
Construction of a calf house, seepage tank and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4601
17 Feb 2016Conditional
Extension to holding yard, construction of an extension to existing silage slabs, construction of a concrete apron and an animal house incorporating a slatted cubicle house, straw bedded area and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4339
28 Jan 2016Incompleted application
Extension to existing holding yard, construction of an extension to the existing silage slabs, construction of a concrete apron and an animal house incorporating a slatted cubicle house, straw bedded area and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4134
14 Jul 2015Conditional
(1) Construction of new cattle shed with slatted underground tank (2) Demolition of existing cattle shed (3) Construction of dry store (4) All ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5561
3 Jul 2015Incompleted application
1/construction of a new cattle shed with slatted underground tank, 2/demolition of existing cattle shed, 3/construction of dry store and 4/ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5465
12 Jun 2015Incompleted application
Construction of a new cattle shed with slatted under ground tank, demolition of existing cattle shed, construction of a dry store, & all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5249
17 Nov 2010Conditional
Construction of extension to existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8495
9 Jun 2010Conditional
Extension to existing slatted shed incorporating cubicles and loose house and construction of a loose house incorporating material change of use of disused milking parlour to loose house
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5414
15 Feb 2007Conditional
Re-concreting of existing silage pits, construction of extension to existing silage pit, partial re-concreting of existing concrete yards, extension to existing slatted unit incorporating cubicles, construction of animal house incorporating loose house, cubicles and feed passage, construction of milking parlour incorporating dairy, pump house, holding yard, slatted slurry tank, dairy washings reception tank, drafting pens and cattle race, floatation channel, office and storehouse and ancillary concrete works, installation of cattle underpass, concreting of existing passageways, and construction of new entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5103
1 Feb 2007Refused
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/4672
5 May 2005Incompleted application
Extension of cow house
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3002
29 Sept 2003Conditional
Dormer dwelling
Approval · Cork County Council, 03/4844
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
Recorded monuments
- CO053-029001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
Large sub-circular enclosure (diam. c. 70m N-S; c. 60m E-W) marked on 1935 OS 6-inch map; now largely destroyed by erection of farm buildings; no visible trace of church. According to Power (1923, 173), site of 'Cill Atha Muirín (Church of Muirin's Ford)....a circular enclosure half an acre or so in area, within which are distinctly traceable the foundations of a primative church, 27 feet by 15 feet. To south of this last are a bullán and some traces of other buildings'; no visible trace of either bullán or other structure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO053-029002 Church
Description
Large sub-circular enclosure (diam. c. 70m N-S; c. 60m E-W) marked on 1935 OS 6-inch map; now largely destroyed by erection of farm buildings; no visible trace of church. According to Power (1923, 173), site of 'Cill Atha Muirín (Church of Muirin's Ford)....a circular enclosure half an acre or so in area, within which are distinctly traceable the foundations of a primative church, 27 feet by 15 feet. To south of this last are a bullán and some traces of other buildings'; no visible trace of either bullán or other structure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO053-030 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope; magnificient view over Bride valley to N. Circular area (c. 48m N-S; c. 44.5m E-W) defined by field fence on line of bank (ext. H 1.8m) WSW->NNW; slight rise N->S. Interior slopes to N; steep fall downslope outside N bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killamurren.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Killamurren.
- 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. 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 Killamurren with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Killamurren · Cill Mhuirín
- Area
- 1,350,965 m² (135.1 ha, 333.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Gortroe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Gortroe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortroe electoral division: 815 people in 273 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinwillin, Ballynoe, Ballyoneen, Ballyrobert, Cronavan, Monananig, Rathaneague
- Placenames
- Killamurren 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.