# Killamurren, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Gortroe, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Cill Mhuirín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,350,965 m² (135.1 ha, 333.83 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 112,149 m² (11.21 ha, 27.71 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 21 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Gortroe, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/gortroe.md - Barony: Barrymore - Electoral division: Gortroe, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 815 people lived in 273 households in the Gortroe electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/10212 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 43425 - Centre: latitude 52.021924, longitude -8.262045 (WGS 84) ## 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); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2154268: 294,219 m² (29.42 ha, 72.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2154268.md - Parcel 2154266: 264,709 m² (26.47 ha, 65.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2154266.md - Parcel 2329425: 234,173 m² (23.42 ha, 57.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2329425.md - Parcel 2329426: 191,167 m² (19.12 ha, 47.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2329426.md - Parcel 2329427: 188,506 m² (18.85 ha, 46.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2329427.md - Parcel 2154267: 112,149 m² (11.21 ha, 27.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2154267.md - Parcel 2154265: 61,497 m² (6.15 ha, 15.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2154265.md - Parcel 2322101: 29,914 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2322101.md - Parcel 2154269: 4,295 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2154269.md - Parcel 2329428: 1,962 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2329428.md - Parcel 5737341: 648 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5737341.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 21 applications, newest first. - 12 Feb 2025, Cork County Council 25/4199: Refused. Permission. Permission to erect a single storey dwelling house, install septic tank and percolation area, upgrade existing site entrance and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/4199 - 2 Sept 2024, Cork County Council 24/5647: Conditional permission. Permission. Permission for construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage, to upgrade the existing entrance and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/5647 - 15 Aug 2024, Cork County Council 24/5543: Incompleted application. Permission. Permission for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, to upgrade the existing entrance and associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/5543 - 13 Jun 2023, Cork County Council 23/5204: Refused. Permission. Construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage, to upgrade the existing entrance and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/5204 - 8 May 2023, Cork County Council 23/4902: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage, to upgrade the existing entrance and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/4902 - 21 Feb 2023, Cork County Council 23/4291: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a slatted unit, silage slab, concrete apron and associated works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/4291 - 12 Apr 2021, Cork County Council 21/4936: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a calf house, seepage tank and associated works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/4936 - 19 Mar 2021, Cork County Council 21/4702: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/4702 - 9 Mar 2021, Cork County Council 21/4600: Conditional. Permission. Installation of a cattle underpass, soiled water tank and associated works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/4600 - 9 Mar 2021, Cork County Council 21/4601: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of a calf house, seepage tank and associated works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/4601 - 17 Feb 2016, Cork County Council 16/4339: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=16/4339 - 28 Jan 2016, Cork County Council 16/4134: Incompleted application. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=16/4134 - 14 Jul 2015, Cork County Council 15/5561: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/5561 - 3 Jul 2015, Cork County Council 15/5465: Incompleted application. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/5465 - 12 Jun 2015, Cork County Council 15/5249: Incompleted application. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/5249 - 17 Nov 2010, Cork County Council 10/8495: Conditional. Permission. Construction of extension to existing dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=10/8495 - 9 Jun 2010, Cork County Council 10/5414: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=10/5414 - 15 Feb 2007, Cork County Council 07/5103: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/5103 - 1 Feb 2007, Cork County Council 07/4672: Refused. Outline permission. Dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/4672 - 5 May 2005, Cork County Council 05/3002: Incompleted application. Permission. Extension of cow house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/3002 - 29 Sept 2003, Cork County Council 03/4844: Conditional. Approval. Dormer dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/4844 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC, site code 002170, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002170 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO053-029001: Ecclesiastical enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO053-029001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO053-029002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO053-030----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killamurren. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Killamurren, about 1 in 5 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/cork/killamurren.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/killamurren.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/killamurren.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinwillin: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballinwillin-40337.md - Ballynoe: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballynoe-40757.md - Ballyoneen: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyoneen-40771.md - Ballyrobert: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyrobert-40797.md - Cronavan: https://everytownland.com/cork/cronavan.md - Monananig: https://everytownland.com/cork/monananig.md - Rathaneague: https://everytownland.com/cork/rathaneague.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/cork/killamurren - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/killamurren