# Kildarra, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Annagh, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cill Dara.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 425,939 m² (42.59 ha, 105.25 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,984 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Annagh, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/annagh.md
- Barony: Costello
- Electoral division: Culnacleha, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 483 people lived in 184 households in the Culnacleha electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/36241
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151993
- Centre: latitude 53.708426, longitude -8.83013 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kildarra, from 248 m² to 88,381 m² (8.84 ha, 21.84 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5248396: 88,381 m² (8.84 ha, 21.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5248396.md
- Parcel 910153: 55,662 m² (5.57 ha, 13.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910153.md
- Parcel 4734705: 50,301 m² (5.03 ha, 12.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4734705.md
- Parcel 1003010: 49,222 m² (4.92 ha, 12.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003010.md
- Parcel 941604: 41,145 m² (4.11 ha, 10.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/941604.md
- Parcel 3751234: 29,785 m² (2.98 ha, 7.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3751234.md
- Parcel 903900: 24,391 m² (2.44 ha, 6.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903900.md
- Parcel 930975: 15,933 m² (1.59 ha, 3.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/930975.md
- Parcel 950280: 14,443 m² (1.44 ha, 3.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/950280.md
- Parcel 4978207: 13,747 m² (1.37 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4978207.md
- Parcel 937019: 13,567 m² (1.36 ha, 3.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937019.md
- Parcel 932503: 10,555 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/932503.md
- Parcel 980125: 7,413 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980125.md
- Parcel 1011620: 7,047 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1011620.md
- Parcel 984842: 4,056 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/984842.md
- Parcel 917197: 3,550 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917197.md
- Parcel 947646: 3,293 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/947646.md
- Parcel 3767461: 2,652 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3767461.md
- Parcel 3947077: 2,565 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3947077.md
- Parcel 930725: 2,544 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/930725.md
- Parcel 2471725: 1,695 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471725.md
- Parcel 890753: 1,115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/890753.md
- Parcel 902911: 1,015 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/902911.md
- Parcel 947647: 248 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/947647.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Kildarra in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kildarra.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA102-041: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA102-041----. In pasture, located at the base of a S-facing slope. There is a modern house c. 20m to SW. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as ‘St Bridgets Wells’ and on the 1916 edition as ‘St Bridget’s Wells (Site of)’. A circular pool (diam. 0.7m) is enclosed within a modern concrete surround. According to local information, this holy well was the focus of a pattern dedicated to St. Bridget, but it is no longer in use as a holy well. Kildara church (MA102-042001-) and graveyard (MA102-042002-) are located 100m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 September 2022
- MA102-042001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA102-042001-. In a graveyard (MA102-042002-). This church is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps, but the 1838 OS Letters record that the townland name, meaning Church of the Oak tree, was derived from ‘an old church, a small portion of which, it is said, remains in a churchyard.’ In the NW of the graveyard, adjacent to the N enclosing wall, is a low, sod-covered linear bank (L 17m; Wth 1.3m; H 0.4-0.5m) on a roughly E-W axis. Stones protrude randomly from the sod suggesting that it may be the remains of a wall. It might be a remnant of the church; alternatively, it may be the remains of an earlier graveyard wall or some other feature, Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 September 2022
- MA102-042002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA102-042002-. Located on a ridge, at the break of slope on the S side. The location provides extensive views. On the 1838 OS 6-inch map the graveyard is shown in the NW corner of a large subrectangular space named ‘Glebe’, which shares its E and S boundaries with the townland boundary. The graveyard comprises a rectangular area (c. 44m NNW–SSE; C. 66m ENE–WSW) enclosed on the W, N and E by a stone wall. The S wall was removed in the 20th-century when an extension of the graveyard was opened, covering the ridge slope immediately to S. An E–W concrete path, apparently on the line of the original S wall, marks the division between the older graveyard and the modern extension. The N two thirds of the graveyard encompass a raised, relatively level area, and the enclosing walls barely rise above interior ground level, consisting for the most part of a stone-faced scarps (ext. H 1.2m). In the S third of the graveyard, however, the ground slopes markedly to the S with some evidence of rough scarping or terracing. The interior ground surface is undulating and uneven, and covered with moss and grass which obscures the outline of many graves. Recumbent graveslabs and ‘Celtic’ headstones inscribed with dates of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries predominate, but low, uninscribed stone gravemarkers are also evident throughout. A low, sod-covered linear bank (L 17m; Wth 1.3m; H 0.4-0.5m) on a roughly E-W axis in the NW quadrant is of uncertain significance; one possibility is that it is a remnant of a church (MA0102-042001-) that the 1838 OS letters recorded in this graveyard. According to local tradition, a mass rock (MA102-042003-) was located adjacent to the graveyard. A holy well (MA102-041----) dedicated to St. Bridget is 100m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 September 2022
- MA102-062: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA102-062----. Located in a pocket of peat, at the base of a hill at the interface between zones of peat and dry pasture land. This fulacht fia was discovered during archaeological monitoring of the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme (2001-2002) and was subsequently fully excavated (01E0967) (Guinan 2015, 74-83; 87-89, Kildarra I). This fulacht fia consisted of a compact, irregular-shaped spread (5.3m N–S; 2.3m E–W) of heat-shattered sandstone and some limestone fragments, in a matrix of charcoal-rich peat. The mound had suffered disturbance in the past. A subcircular trough, cut into the underlying boulder clay, was located 1.3m E of the burnt stone. The trough (L 1.2m; Wth 0.7m; D 0.62m) had steep sides and a flat base. Alder wood chips, a degraded timber post and two unidentifiable fragments of burnt bone were found in the trough fill. Part of a blackthorn post (diam. 0.05m) was preserved where it had been driven into the ground on the S edge of the trough. A cluster of timber posts (diam. 0.02-0.05m), forming an arc, were found 2.5m to SE of the trough. A charcoal sample submitted for radiocarbon analysis produced a date (2500 +/-45 BP (800-409 BC) indicating the latter stages of the Late Bronze Age. Another fulacht fia (MA102-63----) was located 50m to S. (Guinan 2015, 74-83; 87-89). Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 March 2016
- MA102-063: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA102-063----. Located on the edge of a peat deposit at the base of a low hill, at the interface between zones of peat and dry pasture land. This burnt mound was discovered during archaeological monitoring of the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme (2001-2002) and was subsequently fully excavated (01E0967) (Guinan 2015, 74-76; 83-89, Kildarra II). The burnt mound had suffered disturbance in the past. It consisted of a low mound (3.6m N–S; 7.4m E–W; max. D 0.1m) of burnt sandstone in a charcoal-rich matrix, truncated on its E and S sides by a field drain. An isolated charcoal-rich deposit (0.5m x 0.4m; max. D 0.05m) was found 5m NE of the main mound. No trough was found. One chert flake and five unidentifiable fragments of animal bone were recovered. A charcoal sample submitted for radiocarbon analysis produced a date (2902 +/-82 BP (1386-900 BC) indicating the early stages of the Late Bronze Age. Another fulacht fia (MA102-62----) was located 25m to N. (Guinan 2015, 74-76; 83-89). Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 March 2016

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Kildarra, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kildarra.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kildarra.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kildarra.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kildarra.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Kildarra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Carrickacat: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrickacat.md
- Carrowneden: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowneden-150741.md
- Cornacarta: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cornacarta.md
- Redhill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/redhill-152769.md
- Tulrohaun: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tulrohaun.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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