Kinlough

230 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kinlough, from 9 m² to 143,197 m² (14.32 ha, 35.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 165 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 32 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town/Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Social & Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Utilities (General)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Enterprise & Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Aug 2026N/a

  (1) Construct 2no. two-storey semi-detached dwellings, (2) Provide each dwelling with a private rear garden and front driveway, (3) Propose landscaping and boundary treatments including the construction of a stone front entrance wall to both properties, (4) Connect to existing services on site and (5) carry out all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Leitrim County Council, 2660192

• 8 May 2024Conditional

  will consist of the demolition of existing street fronted structure and replacement with new structure providing 4 no. 1 bedroom apartments, parking spaces with entrance onto public road and connection to existing public services and all associated site works.

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2460089

• 24 Feb 2023Conditional

  change of use of existing first floor apartment to beauty treatment rooms

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2329

• 14 Feb 2023Conditional

  (A) Retention of existing structure, (B) Permission for change of use of structure mentioned above to Pet Food Shop and Store, (C) Permission for façade alterations to include shop front with advertising signage and fingerpost sign at site entrance, (D) Permission to alter and widen existing vehicular entrance, (E) Permission for site development works including provision of carparking spaces and boundary treatment

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2321

• 10 Oct 2022Refused

  erect a 24 metre high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennae, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment all enclosed in security fencing with a new access track

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 22215

• 19 Sept 2022Conditional

  (a) construct a single storey, rear and side extension with internal alterations, (b) create a new ground floor window with alterations to existing windows on the south-west elevation, along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22197

• 29 Apr 2022Conditional

  (a) retain and complete a private commercial transport service parking area (1138 sq.m), to the west of the existing domestic dwelling, for a maximum of 10 buses. The parking area will use the existing domestic entrance for access onto the public road, (b) for a two-year temporary period in which to gradually downsize the existing private commercial transport service operations at this site, to maximum of 6 buses, (c) To retain a maintenance shed (229.52 sq.m) to the rear of the site and a welfare/office portacabin installation (30.90sqm), (d) Proposed boundary hedging and security fencing treatments and (e) All associated site works and services

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2265

• 1 Nov 2021N/a

  will comprise of the construction of a 30m high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennae, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed in security fencing. The development is within the curtilage of protected structure Kinlough House- Stable Block as listed on the Record of Protected Structures under the Leitrim County Development Plan 2015-2021 (No.139 on the RPS)

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 21226

• 2 Oct 2019Conditional

  development consisting of construction of a domestic extension to the rear of an existing dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 19201

• 6 Nov 2018Conditional

  one class room extension to the existing Four Masters N.S. and all ancillary works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 18238

• 28 Jul 2017Conditional

  retain development consisting of domestic garage and all associated site works

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 17133

• 27 Apr 2017Conditional

  for the Change of Use of a ground floor Office Unit to Montessori School to be used in conjunction with existing adjoining Montessori School

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1777

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: Lough Melvin SAC 000428
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Melvin 000428

Recorded monuments

• LE002-009 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Located on flat grassland at the NW edge of the 19th century extent of Kinlough village. Marked on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a lime-kiln within a triangular enclosure (max. dims c. 45m N-S; c. 30m E-W) with laneway at N connecting it to the main street c. 100m to the E. The lime-kiln is depicted as a small D-shaped hachured feature (dims c. 15m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE) with the straight side at SE on 1907 ed. of the map, representing it remains. There is no visible surface evidence of the limekiln. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 December, 2015

• LE002-010001 Church
  Description

  In an undulating landscape close to the NW corner of Lough Melvin. This is the parish church of Rosinver within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 50m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by masonry walls. The church is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 18.3m E-W; 6.7m N-S) built of randomly coursed mortared limestone walls (Wth 0.8m; max. H 3-5m) surviving almost complete, except the W wall (H 1.4m). Quoinstones and cut-stone architectural features have largely been removed, except the head of a round-headed window (Wth 0.18m; H 2.22m) in the E gable. There is a doorway (Wth 0.98m; H 1.58m), now lintelled but originally round-headed (SMR file 1943), towards the W end of the S wall and a robbed window (H 1.6m) towards the E end of the S wall. There are holes for four corbels in the N wall and four corbels in the S wall at the W end for a gallery. 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

• LE002-010002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated in an undulating landscape close to the NW corner of Lough Melvin. The parish church of Rosinver (LE002-010001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 50m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by masonry walls. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 December, 2015

Architectural heritage

• Kinlough House, country house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1800 by Robert Johnston. Now in ruins. Roof has been removed. Two ashlar chimneystacks with string courses. Sandstone walls with ruled-and-lined render and tooled limestone quoins and string course. Window openings with tooled limestone surrounds and sills. Those to ground floor are set within round-headed recesses. Scar of removed Doric portico to facade with tripartite window and pediment above. Segmental-arched openings to basement with cast-iron railings. Kinlough House was formerly the home of the Johnston family.

• Kinlough Church (Rossinver), church/chapel, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Board of First Fruits style Church of Ireland church, built c.1820. Comprises three-bay nave with three-stage castellated tower. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, which empty into stone drains. Random coursed stone walls to nave with quoins, battered plinth, buttresses and quatrefoil tooled stone vents. Random coursed stone and pebbledash to tower with stucco quoins and sandstone string courses. Leaded and latticed and replacement windows to round-headed openings with tooled stone surrounds. Timber panelled door to tower within round-headed opening. Timber battened door with square-headed tooled stone surround to north wall of nave. Interior retains features such as gas lamps, bellcote, cantilevered stone staircase and ceiling cornices. Church is set back from road and is bounded by random coursed stone walls with carved sandstone gate piers with cast-iron gates. Former pedestrian gate to Kinlough House to south of tower and former three-bay single-storey Church of Ireland primary school with random coursed walls and pitched salte roof to north of entrance gates.

• Water pump, 1850–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, c.1870, comprising fluted base and fluted domed cap with round finial with cast-iron drainage grid attached. Currently disused.

• Saint Aidan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform Roman Catholic church, built in 1854. Comprising three-bay nave with two-bay chancel and transepts. Pitched slate roof with stone cross finials and bellcote. Random squared coursed stone walls with buttresses, plinth, tooled stone quoins and render to rear. Timber battened doors to transepts in depessed-arched openings with chamfered surrounds. Paired lancet stained glass windows surmounted by trefoil windows to nave with cut stone surrounds and quatrefoil stained glass windows to transepts with cut stone and yellow and red brick surrounds. Traceried four-light window to chancel with rose window above. Shoulder-arched triple-light window to sacristy. Three-bay entrance front with double-height advanced central bay with bellcote surmounted by stone cross finial and flanked by lancet windows of nave. Pointed door opening with date plaque above. Grave markers to graveyard. Ashlar stone piers to entrance gates with domed capstones.

• Water pump, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, comprising fluted cylindrical base with raised horizontal banding and a fluted cap with acorn finial. Manufacturer's mark to base. Set on roadside.

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 high, 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_1267 (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 Kinlough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Kinlough · Cionn Locha

Area

1,176,465 m² (117.65 ha, 290.71 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Kinlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kinlough electoral division: 1,036 people in 395 households; 65% of households own their home; 59% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore, Cloone, Edenvella, Gubacreeny, Laghta, Moneen

Placenames

Kinlough 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.