Kilsob

128 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilsob, from 160 m² to 104,911 m² (10.49 ha, 25.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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.

• M4White Lands (Built up area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 31 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Kilsob 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 the townland of Kilsob.

Recorded monuments

• CV009-031 Architectural fragment
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, c.1880, comprising fluted shaft with spout to front, moulded necking with recent tap, and fluted domed cap over with acorn finial, later bucket-stand fitted to front.

• St Mogue’s Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1975–1980 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding elongated hexagonal-plan single-cell church in Modern style, built 1977, with projecting entrance porch and attached ancillary spaces to rear. Flat roof with deep copper-clad fascia having slight fall either side of main axis, metal crucifix elevated above on metal structure of tilted uprights on a domed base. Support structure of short regular-spaced steel columns concealed behind continuous frameless glazed strip over board-marked concrete ring beam resting on blank red-brick walls in stretcher bond with soldier courses to head and foot and recessed courses at ground. Brick walls and ring beam projecting forward to flank main entrance lobby and secondary exits to north-east and south-west. Thin concrete canopy cantilevered to front and sides from entrance porch. Timber external doors and overpanels with diagonal sheeting, main entrance doors having full-height glazed side lights. Wide interior with altar facing main entrance on long sides. Timber sheeted ceiling having central rooflight of four squares with separating timber baffles within surrounding timber sheeted downstand dropped below ceiling level. Rectangular rooflight as rendered shaft dropped from ceiling over altar. Rendered walls with brick courses as skirting. Folded timber-sheeted screen behind altar with stained glass band above. Confessionals as timber sheeted volumes to short lateral ends of space with matching doors. Steps to elevated altar area. Timber pews arranged in bays splaying from altar steps with separating aisles. Brick paving to entrance area and as external apron around perimeter. Low metal framed gates with metal baffle uprights separated and flanked by hexagonal-profile brick and concrete planters, brick boundary wall with cast-concrete coping. Graveyard to rear.

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 Kilsob, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilsob.

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 Kilsob with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Kilsob

Area

1,414,633 m² (141.46 ha, 349.56 acres)

Civil parish

Templeport, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Bawnboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

625 people lived in 229 households in the Bawnboy electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnboy, Corrasmongan, Erraran, Kildoagh, Lakefield, Muinaghan, Mullaghmore, Newtown

Placenames

Kilsob 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.