Kilroe
Kilroe is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyclogh, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Chill Rua.
- Area
- 100.6 ha
- 249 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 2,814 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilroe, from 75 m² to 695,424 m² (69.54 ha, 171.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilroe 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
30 Sept 2022Conditional
Permission to decommission existing septic tank and percolation area serving existing dwelling house and install a new waster water treatment unit and polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6193
30 Sept 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6210
26 Jun 2019Conditional
Retention of a dairy, covered animal handling yard, store, calf house, covered feed passage, collecting yard, slatted slurry tank, three slatted slurry channels and farm passage entrance and planning permission for an overground slurry store and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5651
20 May 2019Incompleted application
Retention of a dairy, covered animal handling yard, store, calf house, covered feed passage, collecting yard, slatted slurry tank, three slatted slurry channels and farm passage entrance and permission for an overground slurry store and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5271
27 Mar 2019Incompleted application
Retention of a dairy, covered animal handling yard, store, calf house, covered feed passage, collecting yard, slatted slurry tank and three slatted slurry channels and planning permission for an over ground slurry store and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4735
2 Jul 2014Conditional
Construction of detached dwelling and detached domestic garage, installation of proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5410
25 Jun 2014Withdrawn
Construction of detached dwelling, detached domestic garage, installation of proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5348
12 Jun 2013Conditional
Construction of milking parlour, dairy, collecting yard, slatted tank, animal handling area, cubicle house, slatted channel & associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5102
27 Mar 2008Withdrawn
Construction of milking parlour, dairy, collecting yard, slatted slurry tank, animal handling area and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5691
21 Feb 2008Incompleted application
Construction of milking parlour, dairy, collecting yard, slatted slurry tank, animal handling area and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4902
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilroe.
Recorded monuments
- CO032-166 Fulacht fia
Description
In reclaimed pasture. Irregular mound of burnt material (13m N-S; 19m E-W; H 0.55m). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 24). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO032-168 Standing stone
Description
In pasture, on a gentle W-facing slope. This possible standing stone (0.8m x 0.6m; H 0.65m) is orientated E-W and is one of two 'dallans' (see CO032-167----) recorded by Bowman (2000, 14) in 'Mrs. O'Brien's' in Kilroe, being '25 yards [20m] apart. Orientation, N.E. and S.W.' Bowman (ibid.) describes this standing stone as '(b) 2'10" [0.86m] by 6'7" [2m] in girth.' A fulacht fia (CO032-166----) lies c. 24m to the W. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
- CO032-169 Church
Description
In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope beside stream. According to Bowman (1934, 24), site of church in D. Colman's land; ploughed many times. No visible surface trace of site. Locally known as church site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Kilroe.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kilroe, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilroe.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kilroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Kilroe · An Chill Rua
- Area
- 1,006,486 m² (100.65 ha, 248.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyclogh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Ballyclogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 794 people lived in 256 households in the Ballyclogh electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinookery, Ballythomas, Dromrastill, Gortbofinna, Gurteennacloona, Rosnagussane, Woodpark
- Placenames
- Kilroe 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.