Kilmoreen
Kilmoreen is a townland in the civil parish of Kildimo, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cill Moirín.
Parcel 1672230
- Area
- 80,016 m² (8 ha, 19.77 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 377 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
- Kilmoreen
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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_738 (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
- 158.2 ha
- 391 acres
- Land parcels
- 60
- registered freehold, median 3,779 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmoreen, from 101 m² to 187,521 m² (18.75 ha, 46.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Kilmoreen 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
5 Feb 2026Conditional
the construction of an agricultural slatted unit and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660107
7 Dec 2025N/a
the Construction of an agricultural slatted unit and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561278
22 Jul 2025N/a
the extension to dwelling house and conversion of garage for use as part of the house together with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560721
24 May 2024Conditional
the proposed demolition of existing derelict structure, construction of single storey dwelling, restructuring of existing entrance, wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460503
16 Mar 2024Conditional
a vehicular entrance off existing private roadway, demolition of existing substandard dwellinghouse, the construction of a replacement dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460237
14 Jun 2023Conditional
the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360412
6 Sept 2022N/a
construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22963
6 Sept 2022N/a
construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22962
17 Aug 2022N/a
the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22909
21 Jul 2022N/a
the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22799
21 Jul 2022N/a
the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22798
31 Mar 2021Conditional
alterations to detached prefabricated games room with toilet and external covered area and associated site works granted permission under planning reference 19/893
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21397
9 Sept 2019Conditional
a detached prefabricated games room with toilet and external covered area and associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19893
19 Dec 2018Conditional
extensions to the rear and side of existing dwelling and a new front porch
Permission · Limerick County Council, 181252
29 Mar 2017Conditional
to construct a sunroom to side of existing dwelling house and a garage
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17274
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 Kilmoreen.
Recorded monuments
- LI012-060 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on E-facing slope below brow of hill. Monument, depicted as embanked sub-circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. A circular band of darker grass (diam. c. 31m) probably shows line of infilled fosse. A large uneven mound of earth c. 20m N of site probably derived from enclosure and surrounding field boundaries which have also been levelled. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI012-061 Ringfort - rath
Description
In waste ground, at S end of low rise, in area of outcropping limestone. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map, is no longer evident. Area of site has been extensively surface quarried for limestone and is now covered by overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI012-063 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on E-facing slope below top of ridge. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI012-096 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on break in E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (35.4m N-S; 33.6m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.6m; Wth 5.05m) SE->NE, which is best preserved on W side. Sharp fall away in terrain defines edge of site NE->SE. Interior, under pasture, is level in W half but slopes down to E elsewhere. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilmoreen.
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 Kilmoreen, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_737 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Kilmoreen, Kildimo7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Kilmoreen · Cill Moirín
- Area
- 1,581,827 m² (158.18 ha, 390.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildimo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Kildimo, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 688 people lived in 235 households in the Kildimo electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyashea, Cloongownagh, Cragganacree, Kilbreedy, Kildimo, Knockroe, Monanooag
- Placenames
- Kilmoreen 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.