Kilminfoyle

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilminfoyle, from 1,479 m² to 750,069 m² (75.01 ha, 185.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilminfoyle 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.

• 27 Sept 2019Conditional

  construct a single storey four bedroom dwelling house, a new garage, a new treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19543

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cuffsborough 000418

Recorded monuments

• LA029-001 Moated site
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying area. Marked on the 1841 and 1906 editions of the OS 6-inch maps and shown on 25" map as a square area (dims. 40m sq.) surrounded by a wide fosse and slight external bank (overall dims. c. 72m N-S, c. 70m E-W). According to local information, the interior of the site was level and covered an area of one and a half Irish acres. It was enclosed by a very deep fosse and high bank. Traditionally known as a flax yard. Site was levelled in late 1950s or early 1960s. No visible surface remains. A series of stone foundations in the area immediately NE of moated site are believed to mark the site of a village associated with the flax yard. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA029-002001 Church
  Description

  Possibly the site of the Church of St. Maoilpoil (Dowling 1981, 16). Situated in an elevated area with excellent views to S and E. A low earthen mound (diam. c. 28m, H c. 1.5m), destroyed at N, marks the site. No visible grave-markers. Described by Dowling as 'The graveyard of Kilmuilfoyle is about half a mile from Dairy Hill Church site. The headstones are all rude and uninscribed and no interments have been made here since 1835. The name is a corruption of Kyle Maol Foyle which accurately represents the original name i.e. Cill Maol Foil, The Church of St Maolpoil' (Dowling 1981, 16). Archaeological monitoring by Dominic Delany was carried out in 20002 under licence number 02E1663. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA029-002002 Burial ground
  Description

  Reference to Burial Gd. here (O'Flanagan, 1933, 20, 23, 24). Situated in an elevated area with excellent views to S and E. Low earthen mound (H. c. 1.5m, D. c. 28m). Northern section destroyed. No grave markers visible. Described by Dowling as 'The graveyard of Kilmuilfoyle is about half a mile from Dairy Hill Church site. The headstones are all rude and uninscribed and no interments have been made here since 1835. The name is a corruption of Kyle Maol Foyle which accurately represents the original name i.e. Cill Maol Foil, The Church of St. Maolpoil' (Dowling 1981, 16). Archaeological monitoring by Dominic Delany was carried out in 20002 under licence number 02E1663. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA029-003 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Reference to a fulacht fiadh here (Candon 1987, 23). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilminfoyle.

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 Kilminfoyle, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Kilminfoyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Kilminfoyle · Cill Mhaolphóil

Area

1,652,237 m² (165.22 ha, 408.28 acres)

Civil parish

Aghaboe, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Killermogh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

358 people lived in 134 households in the Killermogh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 8% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycolla, Ballyhinode, Cuffsborough, Dairyhill, Leap, Tintore

Placenames

Kilminfoyle 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.