Kildun

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kildun, from 383 m² to 290,004 m² (29 ha, 71.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kildun 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.

• 30 Aug 2024Conditional

  Permission To Construct A New Dwelling House, Proprietary Effluent Treatment System And Associated Percolation Area Together With All Necessary Site Development Works Permission Is Also Sought To Retain Site Development/Clearance Works Carried Out Under Previous Planning Permission P06/3865

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460544

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 Kildun.

Recorded monuments

• MA044-009001 Burial ground
  Description

  This is a National Monument in State ownership (No. 423). It is shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as rectangular enclosed area (c. 20m E-W; c 13m N-S) marked 'Burial ground', and on the 1920 edition as an oval area, indicated by a dotted line, marked 'Giant's Grave' and Burial ground (disused)'. It consists of a low, approx. oval-shaped mound of earth and stone (14.05m ENE-WSW; 10.2m NNW-SSE) rising to a maximum height of 0.9m. Centrally located on the mound is cross-inscribed slab (MA044-009002-). At the SW end of the mound is a standing stone (MA024-009003-). de Valéra and Ó Nualláin (1964, Appendix. no. 14, 97-98) assessed this monument as follows: ‘This feature is shown on the O.S. 6”1837 as a “Burial Ground”. The name “Giant’s Grave” first appears on O.S 6” revision of 1893. At the site is a mound about 15.00 m. by 10.00 m. and up to 1.00 m. high. Two pillar-stones, one with an inscribed cross in circle, are set upright in the mound. About forty yards westward are two small heaps of stones about 5.00 m. diameter and .75 m. high. There is no reason to assume that a megalithic tomb existed here.’ Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 June 2018

• MA044-009002 Cross-inscribed pillar
  Description

  Located in a burial ground (MA044-009001-), which survives as a low mound (14.5m ENE-WSW; 10.2m NNW-SSE). The cross-inscribed pillar is centrally located on the mound. It is a National Monument in State ownership (No. 423). It consists of an upright, roughly rectangular-shaped schist slab (H 2.02m; Wth 0.43m; T 0.23m), aligned WNW-ESE. The upper portion of the WNW face is occupied by an Maltese cross-in-circle (diam. 0.37m), incised in false relief. A number of small packing or support stones surround the base of the stone. There is a standing stone (MA044-009003-) located at the SW end of the burial ground. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 June 2018

• MA044-009003 Standing stone
  Description

  Located in a burial ground (MA044-009001-). The burial ground survives as a low mound (14.5m ENE-WSW; 10.2m NNW-SSE). The standing stone is located at the SW edge of the mound. It is a National Monument in State ownership (No. 423). It consists of an upright, subrectangular-shaped stone (H 1.46m; Wth 0.9m; T 0.23m), tapering to a point at top, and aligned NNE-SSW. It tilts slightly to WNW. Moran (1942, 149) recorded that the W face is divided into a number of 'diamond shaped figures by intersecting lines'. These 'lines' are natural faults in the stone. There is a cross-inscribed pillar (MA044-009002-) located a few meters to NE, at the centre of the burial ground. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 June 2018

• MA044-009004 Cairn - unclassified
  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.

• MA044-009005 Building
  Description

  In pasture, located on an ENE facing slope overlooking an inlet of Blacksod Bay. Included in the RMP (1997) on the basis of a published record (Moran 1942, 149) of a ruined rectangular building (c. 9m x c. 13m) and circular building (MA044-009006-) which were located c. 90m to NW of a mound (MA0044-009001-) and cross-inscribed pillar (MA044-009002-). A rectangular building or house, on a NE–SW axis, is shown at roughly this location on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, and on the 1920 edition as a rectangular 3-sided structure or ruined building. Field inspection determined that the building is a ruined vernacular structure used as an animal shelter. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 July 2015

• MA044-009006 Building
  Description

  In pasture, located on an ENE facing slope overlooking an inlet of Blacksod Bay. Included in the RMP (1996) on the basis of a record published by Moran (1942, 149) who recorded a circular building (diam. c. 12m; wall T c. 0.9m) located ‘just to the west’ of a rectangular building (MA044-009005-) and c. 90m to NW of a burial ground (MA0044-009001-) and cross-inscribed pillar (MA044-009002-). Field inspection in 1997 determined that the building is a ruined vernacular structure used as an animal shelter. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 July 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kildun, 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 high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Kildun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Kildun · Cill Ghoin

Area

1,272,195 m² (127.22 ha, 314.37 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Ballycroy South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

332 people lived in 125 households in the Ballycroy South electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Claggan, Drumgollagh

Placenames

Kildun 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.