Kilmaine

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmaine, from 92 m² to 58,236 m² (5.82 ha, 14.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 73 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 29 May 2026Conditional

  construct a number of extensions and alterations to the existing play school facility along with all associated services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26118

• 10 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BUILDING EXTENSIONS, COMPRISING OF NEW STAFF ROOM AND EXTERNAL SHELTERED PLAY AREA, NEW SIGNAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21976

• 4 Apr 2019Conditional

  Construction of 17 no. 2 storey dwelling houses and all ancillary works including connection to public services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19236

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 Kilmaine.

Recorded monuments

• MA121-030001 Church
  Description

  On high ground, in Kilmaine village. Ruins surrounded by graveyard (MA121-030002-). Said to have been founded by St. Patrick (Knox 1908, 49); later mentioned in Papal suit in 1216. The place suffered greatly in the wars of 1225-30 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 393). Very little now remains of the abbey with several phases of building; ruins appear to represent S end of cloister arcade. Wall (L 19.4m E-W) contains two round arched openings with wicker work centering evident; one at E end leads to two-storey room (8.7m N-S; 6.6m E-W) with SE and SW corner battered externally. Ground floor contains twin ogee headed window on E wall, with well-defined twin light transitional window on S wall; traces of ground-floor vaulted ceiling, 1st-floor contains window on S wall. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 641. Date of upload: 6 May 2014

• MA121-030002 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.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. Reroofed, ----. Now disused. One of a pair. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Roughcast walls with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Rendered shopfront to ground floor on a symmetrical plan centred on replacement glazed timber door having overlight. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with sills, and rendered surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1800–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Reroofed, ----. Now disused. One of a pair. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roughcast walls with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Square-headed central door opening with rendered surround centred on panelled keystone framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with sills, and rendered surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• Holy Trinity Church (Kilmainemore), church/chapel, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Church of Ireland church, built 1860; extant 1893, comprising four-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east). In use, 1923. Disused, 1945. In ruins, 1976. Dismantled, 1989. Roof now missing with ivy-covered drag edged tooled limestone ashlar buttressed gabled bellcote to apex to entrance (west) front. Ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls on battered base with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar diagonal buttresses to corners to entrance (west) front having drag edged tooled cut-limestone "slated" coping. Paired lancet window openings to entrance (west) front with drag edged tooled hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds framing remains of cast-iron fittings. Trefoil window opening to gable with drag edged dragged cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fitting having leaded stained glass panel. Interior in ruins. Set in overgrown grounds.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Kilmaine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Kilmaine · Cill Mheáin

Area

140,551 m² (14.06 ha, 34.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmainemore, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Kilmaine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmaine electoral division: 1,014 people in 375 households; 82% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortnastang, Kilmainepark, Knockatotaun, Rausakeera South, Tawnagh

Placenames

Kilmaine 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.