Kilhale
Kilhale is a townland in the civil parish of Islandeady, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Coill Chéile.
- Area
- 338.7 ha
- 837 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 99,650 m² (9.96 ha, 24.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilhale, from 362 m² to 1,781,218 m² (178.12 ha, 440.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Kilhale 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
20 Nov 2023Conditional
The proposed development will consist of a 3 metres high extension on top of the existing 30 metres lattice telecommunications support structure previously granted permission (Pl. Ref. 062099) to give an overall height of 33 metres, together with associated equipment antennas, dishes, GPS antennas, supporting fixtures and all associated site development works for use by the Emergency Services (Garda, Ambulance, Fire Brigade).
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360484
20 Mar 2023Conditional
construction of a new onsite waste water treatment system to service the existing house on site together with all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23141
24 Feb 2017Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING PALISADE FENCED COMPOUND CONSISTING OF AN EXISTING 30M HIGH COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT TOWER WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT INCLUDING ANTENNAS, DISHES, AN ANTI CLIMBING CAGE AND CONTAINER USING EXISTING ACCESS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 17112
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Newport River SAC 002144
- Natural Heritage Area: Croaghmoyle Mountain NHA 002383
Recorded monuments
- MA069-008 Ringfort - rath
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 Kilhale.
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 Kilhale, 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 high, 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 Kilhale.
- 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 Kilhale with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Kilhale · Coill Chéile
- Area
- 3,386,970 m² (338.7 ha, 836.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Islandeady, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Croaghmoyle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 180 people lived in 67 households in the Croaghmoyle electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Beltra, Doogary, Kilgarve, Knockbaun, Monagarraun
- Placenames
- Kilhale 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.