Kilmorony

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmorony, from 154 m² to 152,243 m² (15.22 ha, 37.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Kilmorony 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Kilmorony 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

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barrow Valley At Tankardstown Bridge 000858

Recorded monuments

• LA026-006 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying area W of the River Barrow. A circular earthen flat-topped motte (summit diam. 13m, H c. 6m) seperated from a bailey at W by an intervening fosse (Wth c. 3m, D c. 2m). The bailey is surrounded by a fosse (Wth c. 4.5m, D c. 4m) at SW. Aerial photograph (GB91.EA.06) shows cropmark of a wide fosse enclosing the upstanding motte. The levelled bailey is defined by three concentric fosses extending from the modern field boundary on the south-east and extending towards the River Barrow. A concentric ring of pits is located within the bailey. The crop-mark of a levelled trackway or possible medieval road (LA026-045) and small divisions are located south-west of the bailey. A large quarry is located immediately to the SE. The aerial photographs were taken on 15 July 1991. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G. F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. On the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map the motte and bailey is located within a tree plantation on the landscaped demesne lands of Kilmorony House located 280m to the NW. On this six-inch map the motte is shown standing in the centre of a large circular bailey. It is possible that the large circular bailey may be the remains of an earlier prehistoric enclosure that was refortified by the Anglo-Normans in the late 12th or early 13th century. On the revised 25-inch OS 6-inch map the motte is depicted as 'The Mound' with a circular tower indicated on top of the motte which suggests that the motte was landscaped by the owners of Kilmorony House who may have built a summer house on top of the motte in the 18th or 19th century. On this revised map the semi-circular curving field boundary to the W of the motte is indicated. This levelled field boundary which may have been the original enclosing element of the bailey now shows up clearly on the aerial photograph (GB91.EA.06) taken in 1991. 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 10 December 2010

• LA026-041 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.X.20) shows cropmark of an irregular and incomplete enclosure defined by a fosse. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1991 (Dr. G. Barrett, 17 July 1991). The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of this report: 28 October 2010. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 04 August 2012

• LA026-044 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB91.EB.30) shows cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. The aerial photographs were taken on 15 July 1991. The plough-levelled monument is cut across by three modern field boundaries. A motte and bailey castle (LA026-006-) is located 390m to the NE. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G. F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 13 December 2010

• LA026-045 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB91.EA.06) shows cropmark of a wide fosse enclosing the upstanding motte (LA026-006-). The levelled bailey is defined by three concentric fosses extending from the modern field boundary on the south-east and extending towards the River Barrow. A concentric ring of pits is located within the bailey. The crop-mark of a levelled trackway or possible medieval road (LA026-045) and small divisions are located south-west of the bailey. A large quarry is located immediately to the SE. The aerial photographs were taken on 15 July 1991. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G. F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. On the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map the motte and bailey is located within a tree plantation on the landscaped demesne lands of Kilmorony House located 280m to the NW. On this six-inch map the motte is shown standing in the centre of a large circular bailey. It is possible that the large circular bailey may be the remains of an earlier prehistoric enclosure that was refortified by the Anglo-Normans in the late 12th or early 13th century. On the revised 25-inch OS 6-inch map the motte is depicted as 'The Mound' with a circular tower indicated on top of the motte which suggests that the motte was landscaped by the owners of Kilmorony House who may have built a summer house on top of the motte in the 18th or 19th century. On this revised map the semi-circular curving field boundary to the W of the motte is indicated. This levelled field boundary which may have been the original enclosing element of the bailey that now shows up clearly on the aerial photograph (GB91.EA.06) taken in 1991. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 13 December 2010

Architectural heritage

• Kilmorony House, house, 1780–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of detached five-bay two-storey over basement Georgian house, c. 1790, with projecting porch. Now in ruins.

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 Kilmorony, 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_2401 (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.

No address of the register names Kilmorony with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Kilmorony · Coill Mhaolruanaidh

Area

1,218,752 m² (121.88 ha, 301.16 acres)

Civil parish

Tankardstown, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyadams

Electoral division

Tankardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

405 people lived in 121 households in the Tankardstown electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinree, Barrowhouse, Grangemellon (Co. Kildare), Maghareagh, Milford

Placenames

Kilmorony 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.