Kilmoylan

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmoylan, from 4,342 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres) to 283,046 m² (28.3 ha, 69.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Kilmoylan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Kilmoylan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Kilmoylan.

Recorded monuments

• LI019-099 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop limestone hill. Circular area (diam. 24.7m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2.55m) with external fosse (D 0.35m; Wth 1.2m). Bank is best preserved SW->NE. Causeway entrance (Wth 2.7m) at ESE has boulder forming N edge. Fosse is best preserved along S arc, but crossed by field boundaries which abut bank at WSW and NNE. Level interior is masked by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-100001 Church
  Description

  Westropp (1904-5, 398) recorded the following details about Kilmoylan Church; 'Kilmolan, 1302; Keilmualain, 1410; Kilmolan, 1418; Kilmoylan, 1615. Fabric - A late, plain church on the extreme east edge of its parish. It is 35 feet [10.6m] by 18 feet [5.5m]; the west gable fell 1839 ; the windows are defaced, and the door heavily ivied. It is of hammered stones with a flat lintel resting on corbels (O.S.L., 8, p. 28)'. Church described in 1840 as following; 'The walls are perfect with the exception of the west gable, which fell about two years ago. It is thirty five feet long by eighteen feet in breadth. On the east gable there was a window which is now disfigured. On the south side wall two feet [0.6m] from the west gable there is another window, now also disfigured. The doorway is on this wall seven and a half feet [2.3m] from the west gable; it is disfigured on the inside. On the outside it is five feet eight inches [1.7m] high by two feet nine inches [0.83m]; the centre of the stone (a) has fallen away; the lintel is but three feet [0.9m] long and eight inches [0.2m] in depth, and enters the thickness of the wall one feet [0.3m]. It is formed of hammered stones. The walls of this church are about ten feet [3m] high, two and a half feet [0.8m] in thickness and built of large stones, very irregularly laid, and cemented with lime and sand mortar; they have the appearance of antiquity. There is a large graveyard attached much in use at present' (OSL, 32). See attached sketch of doorway in south wall of church taken from OS letters. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 November 2018

• LI019-100002 Graveyard
  Description

  Kilmoylan church ruins (LI019-100001-) stands in centre of graveyard which consists of a subrectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 38m N-S x 61m NE-SW) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at E. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilmoylan, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilmoylan.

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.

• Kilmoylan, Doon5 sales

Name

Kilmoylan · Cill Mhaoláin

Area

335,471 m² (33.55 ha, 82.9 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoylan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Shanid, the unit of the census

Census 2022

542 people lived in 208 households in the Shanid electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clashganniff, Dunmoylan, Monavaha, Oldabbey, Tiermore

Placenames

Kilmoylan 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.