Kilmurry More

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmurry More, from 1,587 m² to 77,265 m² (7.73 ha, 19.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Kilmurry More 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.

• 21 Jul 2025Conditional

  Consist of the Construction of 1 No. Dwelling House, Garage & Wastewater Treatment System with Soil Polishing Filter. Including all other ancillary site work and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560492

• 5 Dec 2023Conditional

  erect temporary mobile home, demolish existing detached dwelling house, construct replacement detached dwelling house to connect into existing services with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23648

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 Kilmurry More.

Recorded monuments

• MA038-049001 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (MA038-049002-). On the 1838 OS 6-inch map a rectangular building, on a NNW–SSE axis, marked ‘Church in ruins’, is shown located in the centre of a polygonal graveyard. By the time of the 1922 edition the location is marked only as 'Kilmurry (Site of)'. In the 1838 OS Letters it was noted as 'the ruins of a small church dedicated to the Virgin Mary', but no further details were recorded (O'Flanagan 1927, 98-9 (49)). No above ground evidence of the church survives. A prominent area of raised ground appears to mark its original location. A stone head (MA038-049003-), which most likely came from the church, is located in the graveyard. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 March 2018

• MA038-049002 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.

• MA038-049003 Stone head
  Description

  In a graveyard (MA038-049002-). This carved stone head is set in concrete at the entrance to the graveyard. The head (Wth 0.1m; T 0.08m; H 0.17m) is carved in relief on a stone block (0.27m x 0.28m; H 0.2m). The facial features are simply delineated, and a headdress, perhaps a bishop's mitre, the base of which forms a horizontal band across the forehead, is clearly depicted. It seems likely that it came from the medieval church (MA038-049001-), no surface trace of which is now evident in the graveyard. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 March 2018

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Our Lady, church/chapel, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1886; extant 1895, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to entrance (north) front. Renovated, 1916, with interior "improved". Modified, post-1923, producing present composition. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables on thumbnail beaded corbel kneelers with Celtic Cross finials to apexes, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered plinth. Lancet window openings including paired lancet window openings to chancel (south) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window opening to gable to entrance (north) front with concrete sill, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having leaded stained glass panel. Interior including vestibule (north); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior open into roof with timber panelled choir gallery (north) below stained glass "North Window" (undated), tiled central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, paired stations between stained glass memorial windows (undated), carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (south) reordered, ----, with replacement timber altar table below pair of stained glass windows (undated), and exposed strutted collared timber roof construction with wind braced timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling. Set in unkempt 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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_311 (ZIP).

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 Kilmurry More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Kilmurry More · Cill Mhuire Mhór

Area

520,480 m² (52.05 ha, 128.61 acres)

Civil parish

Crossmolina, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Crossmolina South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crossmolina South electoral division: 870 people in 349 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrinoge, Ballynalynagh, Carrowcloghagh, Gortaneden, Kilmurry Beg, Lecarrowcloghagh, Richmond

Placenames

Kilmurry More 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.