Kilmurry
Kilmurry is a townland in the civil parish of Emlygrennan, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cill Mhuire.
- Area
- 145.4 ha
- 359 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 4,314 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmurry, from 1,960 m² to 234,571 m² (23.46 ha, 57.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilmurry 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Jan 2025Conditional
an existing garage and associated ancillary site works as constructed
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560010
7 Apr 2020Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20295
20 Jan 2020Conditional
the construction of an extension to a domestic dwelling, front boundary wall and all ancillary site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2028
21 Apr 2017Conditional
construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage and an entrance, installation of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17350
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilmurry.
Recorded monuments
- LI048-114 Enclosure
Description
In reclaimed grassland, transected by a field boundary at N running NE-SW.. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. overall diam. 55m) defined by a scarp, ditch, bank and external ditch visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 2 June 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilmurry.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kilmurry, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilmurry.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilmurry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmurry · Cill Mhuire
- Area
- 1,453,798 m² (145.38 ha, 359.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Emlygrennan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Emlygrennan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 850 people lived in 300 households in the Emlygrennan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bosnetstown, Cush, Moorestown
- Placenames
- Kilmurry 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.