Kilroe

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilroe, from 10 m² to 78,090 m² (7.81 ha, 19.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilroe 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.

• 27 Jul 2026Conditional

  retain side elevation as built to existing house together with all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 26170

• 23 May 2024Conditional

  extend and renovate existing dwelling house including an upgrade and relocation of septic tank/proprietary effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24191

• 26 Apr 2023Conditional

  full planning permission for the following; (1) Demolish existing detached dwelling house, (2) Construct replacement detached dwelling house, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360124

• 21 Jun 2021Conditional

  RETENTION OF MINOR ELEVATION ALTERATIONS TO THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED DWELLING HOUSE AND SITE ACCESS ARRANGEMENT

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 21662

• 24 Mar 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DORMER EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING, ALTERATIONS TO FRONT AND REAR ELEVATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALTERATIONS TO FRONT ELEVATION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17212

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SAC 000458
• Special Protection Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SPA 004036
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary 000458

Recorded monuments

• MA022-021001 Church
  Description

  In average pasture, located on the flat top of a rocky knoll in undulating terrain broken by limestone outcropping. There is an abrupt drop in ground level 6m N, falling to an expanse of flat, poorly drained land that stretches c. 250m to the shores of Killala Bay. This ruined medieval church is named Kilroe Church on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch maps, and is located on the border of the townland to which it gives its name. The 1838 OS Letters, John O'Donovan records that the church was ‘about twenty four feet [7.3m] long and eighteen feet [5.4m] broad. The west gable and the south side wall are nearly destroyed, but the north side wall and the east gable are in good preservation. They are nearly in the Cyclopean style, being faced of large squarish stones…The east gable contains a window in the primitive round lancet style..’, and he notes that the ‘Church of Kilroe Mor in the country of Amalgadia’ is mentioned in the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick (O’Flanagan 1927, 38-9 (16-17)). Sod-covered wall footings outline a rectangular building (c. 7m N−S; c. 14.7m E−W). A section of the N wall (L 8m; int. H 2.4m, ext. H 2.8m; T 0.8m) remains upstanding where it has been incorporated into a later E–W field wall. This section of the N wall appears to rest on a low plinth of stones (H 0.25m), which projects 0.25m from beneath the external face. The external wall face is constructed of large sandstone blocks, some square or rectangular, but others more irregular in shape, with very large stones forming the basal courses. One of the largest stones measures 1.1m by 1.1m by c. 0.2m in thickness. The interstices are filled with small stones and the remnants of lime mortar. In the interior, a row of low upright slabs, on a N-S axis, forms a partition to W of centre. Amongst the loose stone strewn in the interior, is a fragment (L 0.95m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.25m) of worked stone, part of a window arch, or possibly a door. A slightly raised spread of loose stone rubble, largely covered in overgrowth, surrounds the W and S side of the church. There is a possible holy well (MA022-021002-) in the lowlying ground c. 15m to N. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 November 2017

• MA022-021002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In average pasture, located in an expanse of flat, poorly drained land that stretches c. 250m to N to the shores of Killala Bay. Immediately to S the ground rises abruptly for several meters to a rocky terrace on top of which there is a church (MA022-021001-). This well is named ‘Tobermore’ on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a marshy pool, fed by a natural spring rising from the base of the rocky knoll. It is now incorporated into a broad modern drain that extends to N. Little is known about this well, but its proximity to the church suggests that it may have been a holy well. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 April 2019

• MA022-111 Standing stone
  Description

  In grazing pasture, located on top of a hill overlooking Killala Bay. This standing stone is not shown on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a massive upright stone (H 1.65m, Wth c. 1.55m; T c. 0.6m), roughly oval in cross-section. According to local tradition, this and another standing stone (MA022-022002-), which is visible on a hill c. 850m to ESE, mark the limits of the Battlefield of Moyne (MA022-022001-). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 May 2019

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1893; extant 1896. Tuck pointed snecked limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked limestone battered abutment walls with chamfered stringcourses supporting parapets having chamfered coping. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning uprooted railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.

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 Kilroe, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilroe · Cill Ró

Area

562,310 m² (56.23 ha, 138.95 acres)

Civil parish

Killala, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Killala, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,325 people lived in 512 households in the Killala electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Killala, Meelick, Moyne, Townplots East

Placenames

Kilroe 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.