Killygorman

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killygorman, from 3,991 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres) to 302,172 m² (30.22 ha, 74.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Killygorman 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 Killygorman 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 Killygorman.

Recorded monuments

• MO012-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the W shoulder of an ENE-WSW drumlin ridge. This is a circular area within a deciduous wood (diam. 26.5m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by a scarp (at W: H 2.4m), with slight traces of an outer fosse or berm (Wth c. 3m) at SW and an outer stone wall facing (H c. 1.8m) N-E. 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

• MO012-048 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  Situated in a slight col on top of an ENE-WSW drumlin ridge with slightly higher ground to the E and WSW. This is a court-tomb comprising a long cairn (L 30m; max. Wth 9m) aligned WNW-ESE. Incorporated in the cairn 15m from the W end are the remains of a gallery (L c. 9m; Wth 1.2m) divided into two chambers by segmenting jambs. Entry jambs at the W are doubled; the front pair are exceptionally large and well matched. The easternmost stone in the gallery, partly set inside the line of the chamber, may indicate further segmentation. Three kerb stones survive N of the gallery. 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. Date of upload: 17 July 2007

• MO012-049 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a low NW-SE ridge in a low-lying position between drumlins. This is an upright pillar with a subrectangular cross-section (dims 0.45-0.8m; 0.75-0.85m; H 1.05m) roughly aligned NW-SE and narrowing to a crest at the top. 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

• Killygorman House, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1860, having projecting single-bay block to rear of east elevation, and recent sun-room extension to front of east side elevation. M-profile hipped slate roof, with cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered paired chimneystacks with stepped caps, and moulded timber eaves brackets to projecting eaves. Coursed rubble limestone and sandstone walls to front (south) and west elevations, harl-rendered to rear and east elevations, with dressed stone block-and-start quoins and dressed sandstone plinth course. Render quoins to east elevation. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings to front and west elevation, with red brick block-and-start surrounds, render reveals and tooled sandstone sills, with mainly six-over-six pane windows, but with two-over-two pane to ground floor of west elevation and some elsewhere, and with cast-iron bars to some rear openings. Round-headed six-over-six pane window to stairwell to east elevation. Gauged-brick three-centred-arch opening to front with moulded render surround, doorcase comprising single-leaf timber panelled door with paned sidelights having panelled stall risers, openings flanked by engaged timber pilasters with moulded caps and bases, moulded cornice and cobweb fanlight, painted stone surround. Door opens onto pair of stone steps. Single-storey porch to rear, having square-headed door timber battened door opening onto stone step.

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 Killygorman, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Killygorman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Killygorman · Coill Uí Ghormáin

Area

305,807 m² (30.58 ha, 75.57 acres)

Civil parish

Killeevan, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Killeevan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

330 people lived in 125 households in the Killeevan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boughill, Cavanavally, Drumcaw, Killyfuddy, Roosky

Placenames

Killygorman 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.