Killmountain
Townland in the civil parish of Clondrohid, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Cúil Mhóinteáin
- Area
- 66 ha
- 163 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 266,853 m² (26.69 ha, 65.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killmountain, from 76,904 m² (7.69 ha, 19 acres) to 316,230 m² (31.62 ha, 78.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Killmountain 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
13 Jul 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted house with underground tank and shed over existing tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8872
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 Protection Area: Mullaghanish to Musheramore Mountains SPA 004162
Recorded monuments
- CO059-076 Ringfort - rath
Description
In reclaimed pasture, on WSW-facing slope. Circular area (22m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1m). Boulders from land reclamation dumped on bank. Interior cut into hill on ENE side and raised on WSW side to compensate for hillslope. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO059-077 Burial
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps. In rough grazing, on steep SSE-facing slope. Rectangular slab-lined hollow (L 0.9m; Wth 0.34m; D 0.35m) closed by flat sandstone slab. Human bone fragments noted inside. Area around burial strewn with loose stones; heap of white quartzite pebbles to E. Two upright slabs (H c. 0.45m; long axes E-W) adjacent to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Killmountain.
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 high, 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 Killmountain.
- 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 Killmountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Killmountain · Cúil Mhóinteáin
- Area
- 660,082 m² (66.01 ha, 163.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondrohid, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Clondrohid, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clondrohid electoral division: 894 people in 325 households; 86% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cabragh, Caherkeegane, Clashmaguire, Lacktify
- Placenames
- Killmountain 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.