# Kilroe, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killala, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cill Ró.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 562,310 m² (56.23 ha, 138.95 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,532 m²
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killala, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/killala.md
- Barony: Tirawley
- Electoral division: Killala, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34529
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152086
- Centre: latitude 54.207112, longitude -9.202823 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilroe, from 10 m² to 78,090 m² (7.81 ha, 19.3 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 910247: 78,090 m² (7.81 ha, 19.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910247.md
- Parcel 992027: 66,732 m² (6.67 ha, 16.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/992027.md
- Parcel 976791: 62,505 m² (6.25 ha, 15.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976791.md
- Parcel 903695: 61,876 m² (6.19 ha, 15.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903695.md
- Parcel 937506: 56,793 m² (5.68 ha, 14.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937506.md
- Parcel 894715: 47,588 m² (4.76 ha, 11.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/894715.md
- Parcel 888357: 35,094 m² (3.51 ha, 8.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/888357.md
- Parcel 885059: 25,741 m² (2.57 ha, 6.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/885059.md
- Parcel 962998: 23,869 m² (2.39 ha, 5.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962998.md
- Parcel 943615: 18,325 m² (1.83 ha, 4.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943615.md
- Parcel 5651347: 13,720 m² (1.37 ha, 3.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5651347.md
- Parcel 934046: 8,504 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/934046.md
- Parcel 940973: 8,263 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/940973.md
- Parcel 980812: 7,657 m² (0.77 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980812.md
- Parcel 885058: 7,293 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/885058.md
- Parcel 961942: 5,486 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/961942.md
- Parcel 986182: 4,234 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/986182.md
- Parcel 5823808: 4,233 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5823808.md
- Parcel 3754941: 2,687 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3754941.md
- Parcel 971532: 2,063 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/971532.md
- Parcel 3648108: 1,957 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3648108.md
- Parcel 5820577: 1,791 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5820577.md
- Parcel 1000201: 1,532 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1000201.md
- Parcel 1002128: 1,514 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1002128.md
- Parcel 933240: 1,393 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/933240.md
- Parcel 1006071: 1,328 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1006071.md
- Parcel 975275: 1,322 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/975275.md
- Parcel 977410: 1,253 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/977410.md
- Parcel 1008858: 1,234 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1008858.md
- Parcel 3643968: 1,099 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3643968.md
- Parcel 3643965: 1,095 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3643965.md
- Parcel 998517: 970 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/998517.md
- Parcel 998386: 581 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/998386.md
- Parcel 912334: 565 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/912334.md
- Parcel 886557: 523 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/886557.md
- Parcel 1009702: 476 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1009702.md
- Parcel 1008113: 466 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1008113.md
- Parcel 5820594: 400 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5820594.md
- Parcel 896226: 142 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/896226.md
- Parcel 5820604: 126 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5820604.md
- Parcel 3643972: 119 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3643972.md
- Parcel 983349: 88 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/983349.md
- Parcel 5219250: 71 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5219250.md
- Parcel 983598: 45 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/983598.md
- Parcel 872393: 10 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/872393.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 27 Jul 2026, Mayo County Council 26170: Conditional. Retention. retain side elevation as built to existing house together with all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/26170/0
- 23 May 2024, Mayo County Council 24191: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/24191/0
- 26 Apr 2023, Mayo County Council 2360124: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. full planning permission for the following; (1) Demolish existing detached dwelling house, (2) Construct replacement detached dwelling house, together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360124/0
- 21 Jun 2021, Mayo County Council 21662: Conditional. Retention. RETENTION OF MINOR ELEVATION ALTERATIONS TO THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED DWELLING HOUSE AND SITE ACCESS ARRANGEMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/21662/0
- 24 Mar 2017, Mayo County Council 17212: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/17212/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SAC, site code 000458, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000458
- Special Protection Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SPA, site code 004036, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004036
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary, site code 000458

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA022-021001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA022-021001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA022-021002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA022-111----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Bridge, 1890–1895, Regional interest, registry number 31302212, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA&regno=31302212. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kilroe.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kilroe.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kilroe.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Kilroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Killala: https://everytownland.com/mayo/killala.md
- Meelick: https://everytownland.com/mayo/meelick-152522.md
- Moyne: https://everytownland.com/mayo/moyne-152565.md
- Townplots East: https://everytownland.com/mayo/townplots-east.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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