Kinnewry
Kinnewry is a townland in the civil parish of Ballintober, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Cionn Iúraí.
- Area
- 419.5 ha
- 1,037 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 28,232 m² (2.82 ha, 6.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kinnewry, from 507 m² to 1,076,651 m² (107.67 ha, 266.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kinnewry 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Jul 2025Conditional
Construction of a Bungalow Dwelling, Effluent Treatment System and Together with site access & all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560437
14 Oct 2024Conditional
construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system together with associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24440
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kinnewry.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kinnewry.
Architectural heritage
- Kinnewry Constabulay Barrack, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey constabulary barrack, designed 1873; built 1873-4; opened 1874, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Vacated, 1921. Leased, 1931. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs on collared timber construction including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Camber-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed red brick voussoirs framing remains of timber fittings. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows behind wrought iron bars. Set in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter supporting flat iron "farm 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kinnewry, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kinnewry.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kinnewry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Kinnewry · Cionn Iúraí
- Area
- 4,194,980 m² (419.5 ha, 1,036.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballintober, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Tawnynagry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 378 people lived in 135 households in the Tawnynagry electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arderry, Bohaun North, Devleash West, Kiltarsaghaun, Maumeen, Tawnynagry, Tonlegee
- Placenames
- Kinnewry 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.