Kilmore
Townland in the civil parish of Gartan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Chill Mhór
- Area
- 93.1 ha
- 230 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 15,279 m² (1.53 ha, 3.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmore, from 1,836 m² to 218,328 m² (21.83 ha, 53.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Kilmore 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
20 Mar 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660460
28 May 2025Conditional
DWELLING HOUSE WITH MINOR AMENDMENTS AND ALTERATIONS TO THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 03/7469 AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING (DEFECTIVE/MICA) DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560875
27 Sept 2023Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BARN AND ERECTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351450
17 Dec 2021N/a
DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING BARN & ERECTION OF A NEW SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152542
12 Apr 2021N/a
DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING BARN AND ERECTION OF A NEW SLATTED SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150641
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: Leannan River SAC 002176
- Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Akibbon And Gartan Lough 000158
Recorded monuments
- DG044-018 Enclosure
Description
There is now no sign of the feature shown as a circular enclosure on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map and perhaps as a small mound on the 3rd edition. The location is a slight rise close to the E shore of Lough Akibbon. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilmore.
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 20 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilmore.
- 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 Kilmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmore · An Chill Mhór
- Area
- 930,896 m² (93.09 ha, 230.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Gartan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Gartan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gartan electoral division: 203 people in 70 households; 83% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowtrasna, Losset, Loughaskerry, Tirargus, Whitehill
- Placenames
- Kilmore 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.