Kilmurry

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmurry, from 2,638 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) to 616,183 m² (61.62 ha, 152.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilmurry 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.

• 3 May 2018Conditional

  forest road, ancillary works and temporary bell mouth entrance adjoining the public road to facilitate occasional access to an existing forestry plantation

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 18472

• 12 Sept 2017Refused

  temporary bell mouth entrance adjoining the public road, to facilitate occasional access to an existing forestry plantation

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 171106

• 15 Aug 2017N/a

  construction of temporary bell mouth entrance onto the public entrance onto the public road, to facilitate occasional access to an existing forestry plantation

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17990

• 26 May 2017Refused

  increase width of existing entrance from 2.5m to 5m set back 8m from road edge also ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17606

• 18 May 2017N/a

  increase width of existing entrance from 2.5 to 5m set back 8m from road edge also ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17562

• 12 Apr 2017Conditional

  dwelling, wastewater treatment system, garage, entrance and associated works on previously granted site (09/575)

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17401

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 Kilmurry.

Recorded monuments

• WI012-052 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a marked NE-facing slope with extensive views to the E and higher ground to the W. A shale pillar (H 1.75m; Wth 1.25m; T 0.83m) with a roughly rectangular cross-section. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI012-058 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in a slight hollow on a NE-facing spur. A subrectangular area (dims. 32m N-S x 15m E-W) defined by a bank (H 1m) and a fosse (D 0.5m). (Information P. Neary) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI012-059 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a NE-facing spur. A small subrectangular area (dims. 7m x 4m) with traces of an external bank, and a slightly raised interior. Possibly the remains of a traditional clay-wall house. (Information P. Neary). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI013-051 Church
  Description

  The Ordnance Survey Letters (1838-40) noted that 'there is no remembrance of the existence of an old chuch or burying ground at Kilmurry, but several interments have been made in the Chapel yard within the last twenty years. The old chapel of Kilmurry was burnt down during the disturbance of 1798. There are two yew trees growing in the chapel yard, which have been planted within the last 30 years.' (O'Flanagan 1928, 86). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 07 February 2013

• WI013-051001 Graveyard
  Description

  The Ordnance Survey Letters (1838-40) noted that 'there is no remembrance of the existence of an old chuch or burying ground at Kilmurry, but several interments have been made in the Chapel yard within the last twenty years. The old chapel of Kilmurry was burnt down during the disturbance of 1798. There are two yew trees growing in the chapel yard, which have been planted within the last 30 years.' (O'Flanagan 1928, 86). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 07 February 2013

• WI013-052 Church
  Description

  D-shaped enclosure (map dims. c. 25m N-S; c. 16m E-W) defined by a stone and earth bank (W. 1.80m, H. 0.70m) believed locally to be the site of a church. (SMR file) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 07 February 2013

• WI013-052001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Known as the 'Blessed Well'. A little pool (diam. 0.4m) which has a concrete beam across its front end, leading to a stream. A small concrete manhole-size covered well is beside the original. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 07 February 2013

• WI013-061 Font
  Description

  A sandstone stoup (H 0.3m) with a bowl shaped basin (diam. at top 0.3m; D 0.17m) built into the W wall of the porch at the W end of a late 18th - early 19th century church which is now in ruins. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 07 February 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Kilmurry · Cill Mhuire

Area

1,362,968 m² (136.3 ha, 336.8 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Newcastle, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Newcastle Upper, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newcastle Upper electoral division: 4,790 people in 1,619 households; 82% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinahinch Middle, Ballinahinch Upper, Easthill, Glendarragh, Merepark, Monalin, Tithewer

Placenames

Kilmurry 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.