Kilmurry
Kilmurry is a townland in the civil parish of Dungarvan, barony of Decies Without Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Cill Mhuire.
Parcel 1587658
- Area
- 26,844 m² (2.68 ha, 6.63 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 113 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Kilmurry
Planning applications on this parcel
6 Jan 2026Conditional
for an attic conversion into living space including the addition of roof windows together with a steel tech type shed to the rear of the existing dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2660002
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1834 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 101.8 ha
- 252 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 2,802 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmurry, from 200 m² to 262,115 m² (26.21 ha, 64.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Kilmurry 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
2 Sept 2026N/a
the change of use of an existing agricultural building to one self-catering tourist accommodation, including elevational alterations to all four elevations, construction of an extension to the north of the existing building, new entrance to public road, installation of a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660674
28 Aug 2026N/a
for the change of use of an existing agricultural building to one self-catering tourist accommodation, including elevational alterations to all four elevations, construction of an extension to the north of the existing building, new entrance to public road, installation of a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660659
6 Jan 2026Conditional
for an attic conversion into living space including the addition of roof windows together with a steel tech type shed to the rear of the existing dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2660002
1 Dec 2021Conditional
for indefinite retention of extensions to dwelling house as constructed and ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 211112
21 Dec 2020Conditional
the removal of the existing house and existing outbuildings and the construction of a new single storey type house, a waste water treatment system and an entrance along with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20986
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 Kilmurry.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilmurry.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilmurry.
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 Kilmurry, about 1 in 5 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 Kilmurry.
- 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 Kilmurry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmurry · Cill Mhuire
- Area
- 1,018,015 m² (101.8 ha, 251.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dungarvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Without Drum
- Electoral division
- Carriglea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 559 people lived in 202 households in the Carriglea electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycullane More, Ballyduff More, Ballygagin (Crawford), Carriglea, Coolcormuck, Coolnagour, Glen Beg
- Placenames
- Kilmurry 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.