Kilnamaddy

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilnamaddy, from 78,516 m² (7.85 ha, 19.4 acres) to 83,535 m² (8.35 ha, 20.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 Kilnamaddy 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 Kilnamaddy 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 Kilnamaddy.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilnamaddy.

Architectural heritage

• Rossmore Castle, water pump, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Hydraulic dam and ram, constructed c.1880. No longer in use. Coursed rubble and cut limestone walls to channel to south of concrete, hemispherical dam wall, and to walls of channel leading to drop to lower level of river to east. Coursed rubble limestone walls to north-east containing square-headed opening with wrought-iron gate in abutment wall. Associated hydraulic ram (not accessible at time of survey) believed to be contained within abutment wall. Rubble stone steps to lower level of river from north-east bank. Series of former sluice gates from west and south-west. Coursed rubble sluice wall, some with socket for timber sluice gate, some with remains of wrought-iron sluice gate fixings. Dam located to south-east of remains of Rossmore Castle and walled garden, on bend of river flowing from west to north.

• Rossmore Castle, bridge, 1800–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of three single-arch bridges, spanning rivers in Rossmore Castle, constructed between 1800 and 1880, still in use as pedestrian and vehicular bridges. First is rubble masonry footbridge, built c.1800, to south-west of walled garden, with rubble limestone voussoirs to round arch, coursed rubble limestone spandrel walls, and recent unhewn timber handrail to carriageway. Second is masonry road bridge, constructed c.1850, to east of Priestfield Lough, having round arch with rendered gauged-brick voussoirs and intrados, coursed rubble limestone spandrel walls and parapet walls. Third is low masonry road bridge, constructed c.1876, to north of mausoleum, having round arch with peck-dressed voussoirs, one keystone damaged, springing from ribbon-dressed stone blocks. Coursed rubble limestone spandrel walls, with chicken wire fence to carriageway.

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 Kilnamaddy, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2303 (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 Kilnamaddy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Kilnamaddy · Coill na Madadh

Area

286,303 m² (28.63 ha, 70.75 acres)

Civil parish

Monaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Monaghan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

6,411 people lived in 2,320 households in the Monaghan Rural electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardaghy Kill, Corlattan, Cornaglare, Cortolvin, Killydrutan, Tullyard

Placenames

Kilnamaddy 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.