Kylemore

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kylemore, from 52 m² to 170,599 m² (17.06 ha, 42.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Kylemore 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.

• 9 Mar 2026N/a

  for 3 no. Bell Tents, shower and toilet unit with new sewage treatment system and all ancillary works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2625

• 10 Nov 2025Conditional

  for alterations and extensions to the existing dwelling, comprising the construction of new extensions, modifications to elevations and window openings, internal alterations and reconfiguration of the layout, and installation of a replacement wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560717

• 25 Jun 2024Conditional

  for the erection of a dwelling house and domestic garage/store with treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460298

• 13 Sept 2022Conditional

  for the erection of a dwelling house with treatment plant and sand filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22605

• 11 Oct 2021Conditional

  of a) 11.7m2 sunroom, to the front of the dwelling, b) 24.1m2 garage, to the side of the dwelling c) 10.3m2 kitchen, to the rear of dwelling and 4) skylight to the side of the dwelling together with all associated site works at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 21847

• 24 Feb 2021Refused

  for a development which will consist of construction of basement ground floor and dormer extensions to rear of the existing dormer house changes to the fenestration together with all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21112

• 17 Jul 2017Conditional

  for retention for the construction of a detached domestic garage/store, the construction of a ground floor extension to a residential dwelling and all other associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17475

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KK037-006 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kylemore.

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

At the centre of the townland of Kylemore, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2519 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Kylemore · An Choill Mhór

Area

1,255,916 m² (125.59 ha, 310.34 acres)

Civil parish

The Rower, and its townlands

Barony

Ida

Electoral division

The Rower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

865 people lived in 290 households in the The Rower electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynunry, Carranroe Lower, Hermitage, Newfarm, Tincarraun, Tinnaslatty

Placenames

Kylemore 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.