Kilgormly
Kilgormly is a townland in the civil parish of Clones, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Coillidh Ghormla.
Parcel 324633
- Area
- 153,712 m² (15.37 ha, 37.98 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 76 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Kilgormly
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- MO012-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a shelf on a S-facing slope. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (dims 45m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 5.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2m) S-NW that is reduced to a scarp (at S: Wth 5.4m; H 3.2m) elsewhere, and with slight traces of an outer fosse in a berm (Wth 5.5m) SE-SW. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 29 January 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 40 ha
- 99 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 93,232 m² (9.32 ha, 23.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgormly, from 4,478 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres) to 197,799 m² (19.78 ha, 48.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilgormly 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 May 2026N/a
permission for the development which will consist of a Two storey type dwelling house, new vehicular entrance to access laneway leading from public road including entrance piers and gates and onsite wastewater treatment plant and polishing area and all revised site levels and associated landscaping and site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660200
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilgormly.
Recorded monuments
- MO012-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a shelf on a S-facing slope. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (dims 45m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 5.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2m) S-NW that is reduced to a scarp (at S: Wth 5.4m; H 3.2m) elsewhere, and with slight traces of an outer fosse in a berm (Wth 5.5m) SE-SW. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 29 January 2018
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch railway bridge, built c.1860, carrying Portadown and Cavan Branch of Ulster Railways across road. Spanning structure removed. Rock-faced rusticated sandstone abutment walls having margined quoins, flanked by splayed random rock-faced wing walls which terminate in projecting piers, with dressed limestone copings, broken and absent in places.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilgormly.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilgormly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Kilgormly · Coillidh Ghormla
- Area
- 400,144 m² (40.01 ha, 98.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clones, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dartree
- Electoral division
- St. Tierney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 390 people lived in 140 households in the St. Tierney electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappagh (Kilgormly), Drumcru (Renwick), Drummully, Killycronaghan, Nook, Tircooney
- Placenames
- Kilgormly 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.