Kilmaddaroe

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmaddaroe, from 478 m² to 83,120 m² (8.31 ha, 20.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Kilmaddaroe 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.

• 31 Aug 2017Conditional

  construct a bell mouth entrance onto public road to facilitate access to forestry plantation together with internal access road and turning head and all associated site works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 17159

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 Kilmaddaroe.

Recorded monuments

• LE027-119 Crannog
  Description

  Located at the SW end of Kilmaddaroe Lough (dims. c. 450m NNE-SSW; c. 180m WNW-ESE). It is depicted as a small island on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-incch map at a point where a small stream debouches to the SW. The island has become attached to the shore on the 1911 edition. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 20m; H 1m) with a single tree attached to the shore at S and surrounded by reeds W-N-SE, but with no visible surface evidence of artificial construction. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE027-120 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a fairly low NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 35m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m) S-SW, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m) at N and incorporated into field boundaries and hedges elsewhere, and an external fosse (at S: Wth 1.8m; D 0.4m). The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE027-122 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the S-facing slope of a small drumlin. This is a grass-covered circular earthen platform (dims 36.5m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by a scarp (H c. 0.55m) which is incorporated into a field bank N-ESE and has traces of an outer fosse in a band of rushes (Wth 1m) E-S. There is a modern entrance at NW with a NNW-SSE laneway outside the perimeter at W. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1482 (ZIP).

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 Kilmaddaroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Kilmaddaroe · Coill an Mhada Rua

Area

850,883 m² (85.09 ha, 210.26 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Gowel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gowel electoral division: 360 people in 132 households; 93% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clogher, Garvlough, Killasanowl, Kiltoghert, Tonnagh

Placenames

Kilmaddaroe 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.