Kilbree Upper
Kilbree Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Ballintober, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Cill Bhrí Uachtair.
- Area
- 137.2 ha
- 339 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 24,963 m² (2.5 ha, 6.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbree Upper, from 128 m² to 209,706 m² (20.97 ha, 51.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Kilbree Upper 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
25 Aug 2026N/a
Planning application for dwelling house, domestic shed, domestic wastewater treatment system and all ancillary siteworks and services at Kilbree Upper, Islandeady, Westport, Co. Mayo.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660677
20 Jul 2026N/a
Planning application for dwelling house, domestic shed, domestic wastewater treatment system and all ancillary siteworks and services at Kilbree Upper, Islandeady, Westport, Co. Mayo.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660580
22 Sept 2025Conditional
extension of existing commercial unit, provision of wheelchair access, improvement of sightlines for public access, rainwater harvesting and landscaping works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25404
30 Jun 2025N/a
extension of Gaiety Furniture Showroom and associated access improvement works on existing business, consisting the extension of existing commercial unit, provision of wheelchair access, improvement of sightlines for public access, rainwater harvesting and landscaping works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25259
6 May 2025N/a
extension of Gaiety Furniture Showroom and associated access improvement works on existing business, 0.33 hectare site, consisting the extension of existing commercial unit, provision of wheelchair access, improvement of sightlines for public access, rainwater harvesting and landscaping works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25175
19 Apr 2024Conditional
construct dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24121
7 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211061
24 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211022
28 Sept 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20705
22 Nov 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18931
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 Kilbree Upper.
Recorded monuments
- MA088-024 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA088-027001 Church
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA088-027002 Graveyard
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA088-027003 Altar
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilbree Upper.
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 Kilbree Upper, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilbree Upper.
- 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 Kilbree Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Kilbree Upper · Cill Bhrí Uachtair
- Area
- 1,371,737 m² (137.17 ha, 338.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballintober, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Clogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 948 people lived in 330 households in the Clogher electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bunrawer, Cashel, Keeloges, Kilbree Lower, Rockfield
- Placenames
- Kilbree Upper 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.