Kinlough

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kinlough, from 50 m² to 322,328 m² (32.23 ha, 79.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kinlough 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.

• 5 Feb 2026Conditional

  retain existing cattle crush handling facilities and for planning permission to construct a farm shed and slatted tank, for the purpose of housing cattle and sheep, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2621

• 16 Jul 2025N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: proposed three bedroom house

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25279

• 16 Jul 2025Conditional

  erect a new detached house and all ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25287

• 13 May 2025Conditional

  construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area and domestic garage along with all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25183

• 18 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission to change existing garage into habitable accomodation

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360433

• 27 Jul 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of: the construction of a new private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area and domestic garage with ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360302

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SERVICED DWELLING WITH AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A GARAGE/SHED

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211329

• 4 Mar 2021Conditional

  RETAIN AND COMPLETE MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBER P19/389, THE ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS NOTED INCLUDE FOR THE ADDITION OF WINDOWS TO THE SIDE AND REAR ELEVATION ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 21177

• 31 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT SERVICED DWELLING WITH AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A GARAGE /SHED

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19872

• 24 May 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19389

• 9 Nov 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED IN EXISTING FARMYARD

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18886

• 25 Oct 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SERVICED DWELLING WITH AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A GARAGE/SHED

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18835

• 30 Aug 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DOMESTIC GARAGE/SHED

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17698

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• MA122A011 Enclosure
  Description

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• MA122A012 Enclosure
  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.

• MA123-041001 Hillfort
  Description

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• MA123-041002 Hut site
  Description

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• MA123-043001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

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• MA123-043002 Souterrain
  Description

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• MA123-045 Enclosure
  Description

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• MA123-046 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

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• MA123-047 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, on the W bank of a modern canalised section of the Black River. The castle is prominently sited on a rocky rise, commanding excellent views over a broad sweep of lowlying terrain which stretches c. 400m S to the Galway border. There is a medieval church (MA123-048----) 80m to E. Kinlough Castle is a National Monument in state ownership (no. 95). Rectangular four-storey building (ext. 11.10m N−S; 12.7m E−W; int. 5.8m N−S; 7.8m E−W) of mortared limestone rubble, with a deep base batter (H 3.2m) of large rough rubble; it stands to full height, the roof is missing and the interior gutted. Gables that would have carried the steep-pitched roof rise directly from the top of the E and W walls, confining the wall-walk to the N and S sides; three tall chimneys rise from parapet level, one close to the NE angle, and two diagonally-set chimneys on the W side, one set in from the NW angle and one from the SE angle, on either side of the gable. There are no crenellations. The N and S walls each have a row of four gutter stones/water spouts projecting from wall-walk level. A machicolation projects at second floor level from the N end of the W wall. The doorway is at the E end of the S wall, opening through the base batter. It retains a flat voussoir head but it is broken out at the sides, the jambs robbed. A broken hanging eye remains on the inner E side of the doorway, and there are two drawbar sockets, one c. 0.55-0.6m above the other, on the W side. Windows are stacked in a vertical row in the centre of the N and E walls, one at each storey. In the N wall two gun loops pierce the base batter, one on either side of the central window at ground floor level. The W wall has a central window at ground floor, first floor and second floor; small windows at third floor level are blocked up. There is a small lintelled window toward the E end of the S wall at second floor level and a larger blocked up opening towards the W end of the wall at the same level, and two small windows remain relatively intact at the uppermost floor. In general, the windows inserted into the base batter appear to have been loops and those at upper floor levels were larger rectangular windows, but almost all are now broken out, robbed of their dressed stone surrounds or lintels. In the interior stone corbels, which carried timber floor/ceiling beams, still project from the N and S wall at each floor level, and the shadow of a staircase can be seen in the S wall face. There are two large fireplaces, one built across the SW angle at first floor level, the other spanning the NW angle at second floor level. A third fireplace can be seen high on the N wall at its E end at third floor or attic level. There is no evidence of a garderobe. Remnants of render still adhere to the walls. Two later drystone field walls abut the NE and NW corners of the castle and the E and S sides are railed off by OPW. Kinlough Castle is interesting for its long history of occupation, with successive phases of modifications and remodelling carried out over the several centuries imprinted in the fabric of the building. It appears to have begun life, probably in the late 13th century, as a hall house, most likely two-storey in height with entrance at first floor level; the base batter with its rather rough appearance survives from this phase. In the later medieval period it was remodelled into a tower house, when the ground floor doorway was inserted and two more storeys with timber floors, a machicolation and a gable roof were added. Windows too underwent modification, with some early small opes blocked up at a later stage or replaced with larger windows. Gun loops were inserted in 16th century. A final phase of refurbishment, probably in the late 16th century/early 17th century, saw the insertion of the fireplaces and the three tall chimney stacks, the two diagonally-set examples at the W end of the roof being typical of a style fashionable in the first half of the 17th century. The second floor fireplace at the NW angle blocked access to the machicolation, obviously considered obsolete by that stage. It was a castle of the Bourkes, descendants of the Anglo-Norman de Burghs. It is annotated ‘MacWilliam’s House’ on a map drawn in 1584 by John Browne, Sheriff of Co. Mayo. This refers to the MacWilliam Íochtar, the title assumed by the elected chief of the Bourke clan in Mayo; at that date Richard fitzOliver Bourke held the title, following the death in 1583 of the previous chief, Sir Richard fitzDavid Bourke . It remained a Bourke possession until 1629 when it was mortgaged to Valentine Blake of Menlough (Blake 1909, 95-96). MA123-047----_01.JPG S wall; doorway at E end of wall MA123-047----_02.JPG W wall with ruined machicolation at N end (at L) MA123-047----_03.JPG N wall MA123-047----_04.JPG E wall MA123-047----_05.JPG Gutter-stones projecting from top of S wall MA123-047----_06.JPG Doorway with drawbar sockets on W side MA123-047----_07.JPG Diagonal chimneys at W gable MA123-047----_08.JPG Interior: fireplaces at SW angle (lower left) and NE angle (upper right) MA123-047----_09.JPG Fireplace at SW angle –first floor MA123-047----_10.JPG Interior: E wall Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 January 2022

• MA123-048 Church
  Description

  In pasture, on the E bank of a modern canalised section of the Black River. The church is prominently sited on the narrow spine of a knoll with a steep fall on the S side and a more gradual incline at N. It overlooks a flat expanse of lowlying terrain which flanks the River Black, stretching S for c. 400m to the Galway border. There is a tower house (MA123-047----) 80m to W. The Annals of the Four Masters record for the year 794 AD that ‘St. Siadhal Ua Commain, Abbot of Ceann Lacha, died on the 8th of Marti’. Gwynne and Hadcock (1970, 395) correct the year to 799, and elucidate that Ceann Lacha was identified first as Kinlough in Co. Leitrim and then as Kinlough, Co Mayo. The present church dates to the 13th century. It is a National Monument in state ownership (no. 95). The church is a rectangular building (22.55m E−W; 8.75m N−S) of mortared limestone rubble, with undifferentiated nave and chancel, an elegant trio of slim lancet windows in the centre of the E gable and a belfry projecting from the W gable. The belfry connected with an upper story at the W end of the church, which provided accommodation for the clerics. The walls of both church and belfry have a gentle exterior base batter (H 1.7-1.8m). The church is now roofless; the N wall and the two gables are relatively intact, but the NE angle and the S wall have collapsed. The church spans the full N−S width of the narrow knoll, and it seems likely that the S wall collapsed as a result of being built on the edge of the rather steep drop on the S side. The western two thirds of the N wall stand to roughly original height but the E end of the wall has collapsed. The doorway (Wth c. 1.35m; H 3.1m) is located slightly to W of centre in this wall. It is ruined and blocked up now with drystone walling, but remnants of the cut-stone pointed arch can still be seen. At the W end of the wall there is a window at first floor level, consisting of a small rectangular ope in an inwardly splayed, lintelled embrasure; this lit the upper storey chamber. The E gable has collapsed at its E end and has lost its apex and part of its window array. The arrangement of windows, a very tall central lancet flanked by two shorter lancets, each in its own round-arched, inwardly splayed embrasure (Wth 1.8m), has a pleasing symmetry. The S lancet is intact; the central lancet has lost its pointed arch and only the S reveal of the N lancet survives. A short (L 2) return of the S wall still stands at the SE angle. It contains a neatly built, square aumbry (Wth 0.27m; H 0.3m; D 0.32m) with top, base and sides each formed of a single stone with chamfered edges. The E reveal of a tall window can be seen at the ragged broken edge of the wall, the last remnant what was probably a row of lancets in this wall. The W gable stands to almost full height, with the square tower or belfry (ext. 2.8m E−W; 2.8m N−S; H 2.75m) projecting roughly centrally from it. Only the ground floor chamber of the belfry survives, but stones projecting from the external face of the W gable indicate where the upper storeys of the tower were bonded onto the church. A doorway (Wth 1.9m) with a pointed voussoir arch opens from the nave into the ground floor room of the belfry, which is lit by a small flat-headed window (H 0.6m; Wth 0.35m) in the centre of the W wall. A narrow, round arched doorway to N of centre in the W gable at first floor level gave access from upper storey of the church into the upper levels of the belfry. The interior of the church is grass-covered. Conservations works, including repointing of the walls, have been carried out by the OPW. Railings now close off the S side of the church. Attached images: MA123-048----_01.JPG Church viewed from SW MA123-048----_02.JPG Church viewed from NW MA123-048----_03.JPG Church viewed from S MA123-048----_04.JPG Blocked up doorway with remnants of cut stone surround, in the N wall MA123-048----_05.JPG E window (interior) –only the E lancet is intact MA123-048----_06.JPG E window (exterior) MA123-048----_07.JPG Surviving portion of S wall, with aumbry and reveal of window MA123-048----_08.JPG Aumbry at E end of S wall MA123-048----_09.JPG Interior: W gable with doors into belfry at ground floor and first floor; window at first floor level in N wall (at R). MA123-048----_10.JPG Belfry viewed from SW; projecting stones show where upper storey of belfry was bonded to the church gable Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 January 2022

• MA123-067003 Burnt mound
  Description

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Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1838[?], with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed open windbreak. Renovated. Pitched roof with part chicken wire-covered replacement reed or rye straw thatch, rope twist above exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered dwarf chimney stack having chamfered capping, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls; limewashed surface finish to side (north-east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC panelled half-doors. Set back from line of road on a corner site with limewashed piers to perimeter supporting barley twist-detailed looped flat iron gate.

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 high, 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 Kinlough.

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

Name

Kinlough · Cionn Locha

Area

2,087,664 m² (208.77 ha, 515.87 acres)

Civil parish

Shrule, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Shrule, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shrule electoral division: 1,211 people in 419 households; 89% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnaboy (Co. Galway), Brodullagh South, Cloonbanaun, Cullagh, Largan (Co. Galway), Rooaunalaghta, Tonroe (Co. Galway), Toorard

Placenames

Kinlough 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.