Kilduffahoo

112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilduffahoo, from 30 m² to 449,223 m² (44.92 ha, 111.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Kilduffahoo 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.

• 12 Feb 2026Conditional

  the alterations to the site boundaries around existing dwelling house as constructed together with all associated site work

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660136

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new wastewater system to serve an existing dwelling, and ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560454

• 21 Jun 2018Conditional

  the change of house design of the two storey house permitted under planning permission reference no. 16/379 together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18625

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
• Natural Heritage Area: Grageen Fen And Bog NHA 002186

Recorded monuments

• LI015-008001 Church
  Description

  Situated immediately E of a public road and S of a deserted farmyard, on a S-facing slope in rolling pasture. Medieval church ruins of Dubh Dhá Thuath stands in the centre of Kilduffahoo (Chill Dubh Dhá Thuath) graveyard (LI015-008002-) which was mainly used as a children's burial ground. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded that this building was the remains of a friary church. The S half of the E gable remains upstanding while the lower courses of the N and S walls survive with wall footings of the W gable. Church ruins standing inside woodland area covered in scrub and ivy making detailed examination of the remains impossible. Graveyard are mainly used as a children's burial ground located immediately S of church. Church ruins described in 1840 as following; 'This is the ruins of a Friary, about 60 feet [18.2m] long and 24 feet [7.3m] wide, with a portion of the walls 4 feet [1.2m] high. Attached to it is a small burial ground, on an eminence about 1 chain [20m] in diameter, used now chiefly for the interments of children' (OSNB, Doon parish, Book 2, 603). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 October 2018

• LI015-008002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated immediately E of a public road and S of a deserted farmyard, on a S-facing slope in rolling pasture. Kilduffahoo graveyard consists of a sub-rectangular shaped area (c. 15m E-W; c. 25m N-S) covered by ground ivy, scrub and small woodland enclosed by low earthen bank. The E gable and part of the south wall of a ruined friary church (LI015-008001-) stands at N end of graveyard. A steep break in slope (H 0.5m, Wth 1.5m) of ground is visible at S end of graveyard. There are no gravemarkers or any sign of burials. According to Ordnance Survey letters this graveyard was used mainly as a children's burial ground. No visible remains of any inscribed memorials although the area is covered in scrub which may cover any such evidence. Graveyard described in 1840 as following; 'This is the ruins of a Friary, about 60 feet [18.2m] long and 24 feet [7.3m] wide, with a portion of the walls 4 feet [1.2m] high. Attached to it is a small burial ground, on an eminence about 1 chain [20m] in diameter, used now chiefly for the interments of children' (OSNB, Doon parish, Book 2, 603). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 October 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1245 (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 Kilduffahoo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Kilduffahoo · Cill Dubh Dhá Thuath

Area

3,477,479 m² (347.75 ha, 859.3 acres)

Civil parish

Doon, and its townlands

Barony

Owneybeg

Electoral division

Doon West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doon West electoral division: 266 people in 96 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Buffanoky, Cullenagh, Portnard

Placenames

Kilduffahoo 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.