Kilvurra

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilvurra, from 36 m² to 202,121 m² (20.21 ha, 49.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Kilvurra 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.

• 8 Sept 2025Invalid application

  1) Demolition of an existing piggery, overground slurry tank and associated structures. 2) Retention of an existing feed blending house, storage bins, which are ancillary to the site use. 3) Construction of the following, a) a new piggery complex consisting of 4 number pig houses with slatted slurry storage, pig handling facilities, b) 8 no. feed bins, c) Plant & Electrical Building, d) an overground covered slurry storage tank, e) staff amenity block, f) septic tank and percolation area, g) rainwater harvesting and storm water attenuation tanks, h) relocation of the existing site entrance, i) associated concrete aprons, j) all associated ancillary site works, landscaping and drainage services. An AA Screening Assessment has been prepared and submitted to the Planning Authority with this application

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5821

• 14 Aug 2025Application invalid

  1) Demolition of an existing piggery, overground slurry tank and associated structures. 2) Retention of an existing feed blending house, storage bins, which are ancillary to the site use. 3) Construction of the following: a) a new piggery complex consisting of 4 number pig houses with slatted slurry storage, pig handling facilities, b) 8 no. feed bins, c) Plant & Electrical Building, d) an overground covered slurry storage tank, e) staff amenity block, f) septic tank and percolation area, g) rainwater harvesting and storm water attenuation tanks, h) relocation of the existing site entrance, i) associated concrete aprons, j) all associated ancillary site works, landscaping and drainage services. An AA Screening Assessment has been prepared and submitted to the Planning Authority with this application.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/460

• 30 Oct 2012Unconditional

  Construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, installation of a waste water treatment plant unit and associated site works

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/668

• 11 Oct 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, domestic garage, installation of waste water treatment plant unit and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2621

• 29 Jun 2007Conditional

  Construct calf house, 2no. isolation pens, 2no. seepage holding tanks, concrete apron, overground slurry storage tank, soiled water tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1729

• 18 May 2006Withdrawn

  Traditional style dwelling and associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/904

• 3 Mar 2006Conditional

  Construction of a conservatory

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/331

• 17 Sept 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7107

• 12 Aug 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6151

• 10 Dec 2003Conditional

  Demolition of dwelling & construction of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6317

• 20 Oct 2003Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5231

• 7 Jan 2003Conditional

  Construction of domestic garage and retention of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/20

• 13 Sept 2002Conditional

  Agricultural machinery shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/4057

• 12 Jul 2002New application

  Construction of domestic garage & retention of chimney stack and garage door to existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3051

• 5 Oct 2001Conditional

  Erection of polytunnel and retention of polytunnel

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/5513

• 5 Oct 2001Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/5492

• 25 Jun 2001Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/3654

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 Kilvurra.

Recorded monuments

• CO121-020 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture on break in S-facing slope. Discovered 1983, when roof of chamber collapsed spontaneously. At least 3 chambers revealed, only one accessible. Two creepways led from N end. Chamber 1: H c. 1m; 2.9m NW-SE; 1.5m SW-NE. (Cleary 1987, 30). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO121-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, just east of summit of hillock; land falls away sharply to N, E and S. Circular area (26m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.2m) ESE->NW; scarp NW->NE (H 1.6m). Small triangular field adjoins enclosure where bank levelled NE->ESE. Fosse evident as slight depression outside bank to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Kilvurra.

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 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 Kilvurra.

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.

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

Name

Kilvurra · Coill Mhura

Area

1,442,472 m² (144.25 ha, 356.44 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymoney, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (East Division)

Electoral division

Ballymoney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymoney electoral division: 885 people in 323 households; 71% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherkirky, Cloonkirgeen, Currabeg, Derreen, Garranure, Kilbeloge, Knockacullen

Placenames

Kilvurra 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.