Kilmurry South

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmurry South, from 49 m² to 137,427 m² (13.74 ha, 33.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kilmurry South 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.

• 22 Jan 2021Conditional

  The demolition of one outbuilding and two flat roof extensions to dwelling and construction of a one and a half storey extension to dwelling house, a detached garage, a garden office and 1no. polytunnel along with all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4113

• 7 Dec 2020Incompleted application

  Demolition of one outbuilding and two flat roof extensions to dwelling and construction of a one and a half storey extension to dwelling house, a detached garage and a garden office along with all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6754

• 4 Jul 2018Conditional

  Retention of proprietary wastewater treatment unit and tertiary treatment filter as constructed on site.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/5741

• 21 Jun 2018Withdrawn

  Construction of a single-storey dwelling with attached garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5605

• 23 Nov 2015Conditional

  Construct an agricultural shed containing a milking parlour, straw bedded area, cubicle house with slatted tank, effluent tank and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6641

• 10 Feb 2009Conditional

  Demolition of dwelling and construction of two-storey dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4386

• 8 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of slatted tank and extension to slatted house with slatted tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5779

• 18 Jul 2006Refused

  Demolition of farm buildings and construction of 2 no. dwellinghouses

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/8989

• 20 Dec 2005Conditional

  Construction of cattle shed with slatted tank and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9530

• 16 Feb 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/882

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Special Protection Area: Blackwater Callows SPA 004094
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater River Callows 000073

Recorded monuments

• CO036-010 Country house
  Description

  Three-storey house of late 18th/early 19th-century appearance; unoccupied (Bence-Jones 1978, 175). Entrance front (S) 5-bay, 2-storey, with 1-bay wings at either end; strip pilasters frame wings. Central door behind portico with rusticated piers; central Venetian window on 1st floor. Hipped roof concealed by parapet with urns. (ibid.) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO036-011 Burial ground
  Description

  Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular field (diam. c. 40m) in demesne of Kilmurry House (14903) and named 'Graveyard'; named 'Burial Ground' on 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps. In level pasture, above S-facing slope overlooking Blackwater Valley. Circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by well-built wall of masonry, topped with mock crenellations. Access through ornamental gate on W side. Interior densely overgrown; three low mounds noted but no burial markers discernible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• Kilmurry House, country house, 1770–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay three-storey country house, built c. 1780, facing south, having two-storey square-plan projection additions of c. 1830 to front corners having one-bay front and tw-bay side elevations, portico to front elevation, and recessed two-bay two-storey return to east end. Now disused. Hipped slate roofs with moulded limestone cornice and cut limestone eaves course, and rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls with cut limestone plinth course and pilasters quoins to corners of main block. Square-headedwindow openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, with limestone sills. Windows of front and side elevations of end bays have moulded limestone surrounds with ornate keystones. Remains of stained-glass windows to projecting east bay. Venetian-style window to middle of front elevation having carved limestone surround with moulded cornice and archivolt, ornate keystone, sidelights being flanked by carved limestone Ionic-style pilasters. Portico comprising square-profile rusticated cut limestone columns supporting limestone entablature, moulded cornice and heavy parapet with blank limestone plaque, approached by flight of limestone steps. Entrance in façade propoer comprising cut limestone surround with pediment, carved triple keystone, fluted consoles and panelled pilasters. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door, flanked by square-headed sidelights with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding with dormer attic to north side of yard to rear of house, having pitched slate roof with roughcast rendered brick chimneystack, roughcast rendered walls and square-headed window openings with render sills. Elliptical-arched gateway to east leading to courtyard, having cut limestone walls and voussoirs with carved coping, having date-stone to keystone. Interior of house has heavy foliate stucco to interior ceilings to ground floor.

• Kilmurry House, gate lodge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1830, with gable-fronted end-bay to south. Now in disuse. Pitched slate roof with timber bargeboards, rendered chimneystacks and render copings. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render label-mouldings having ornate label stops. Gates comprise square-profile rendered piers with gabled caps and ornate double-leaf cast-iron spear-headed vehicular and pedestrian gates and roughcast rendered boundary plinth walls with similar ornate cast-iron railings.

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

At the centre of the townland of Kilmurry South, 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 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 Kilmurry South.

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.

No address of the register names Kilmurry South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Kilmurry South · Cill Mhuire Theas

Area

2,114,081 m² (211.41 ha, 522.4 acres)

Civil parish

Leitrim, and its townlands

Barony

Condons and Clangibbon

Electoral division

Leitrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

381 people lived in 119 households in the Leitrim electoral division. 98% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynalacken, Countygate (Co. Waterford), Curragh Lower, Inchinleama West (Co. Waterford), Kilbarry, Kilmurry North, Kylebeg

Placenames

Kilmurry South 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.