Kilmore Lower

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmore Lower, from 50 m² to 131,593 m² (13.16 ha, 32.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Kilmore Lower 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.

• 13 May 2025Conditional

  1) to retain the existing 24m telecommunications support structure carrying antenna and dishes, communications cabins and associated site works within a palisade fenced compound (previously granted under Plan Ref No. 10130) and, 2) Permission to install additional antenna, dish equipment to the support structure including ground equipment cabinets and associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560092

• 8 Mar 2022Conditional

  proposed construction of an agricultural entrance with access road to service existing farm lands and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2251

• 3 Dec 2021Conditional

  construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21337

• 16 Jun 2017Conditional

  for the proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house with attached sun lounge, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17169

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: Lough Forbes Complex SAC 001818
• Special Protection Area: Ballykenny-Fisherstown Bog SPA 004101
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Forbes Complex 001818

Recorded monuments

• LF013-068 Road - class 3 togher
  Description

  A togher (Wth 1.5m; D 0.18m), orientated ENE-WSW, composed of a superstructure of three longitudinal, tangentially split, oak timbers and birch roundwoods and a substructure of large, transverse, oak roundwoods (L 3m max.). There was a smaller, possibly reused, morticed timber in between them. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-108 Road - class 3 togher
  Description

  Noted during field survey in 1989, orientated NE-SW (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c. 1890, with 'VR' royal cipher and raised crown motif to head, and raised ‘Post Office’ lettering to letter flap. Foundry mark to base, now illegible. Set into stonework pier, adjacent to crossroad junction. Located to the west of Longford Town and to the east of Cloondara.

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 Kilmore Lower, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1666 (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 Kilmore Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Kilmore Lower · An Choill Mhór Íochtarach

Area

1,533,803 m² (153.38 ha, 379.01 acres)

Civil parish

Clongesh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Cloondara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

718 people lived in 265 households in the Cloondara electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartronlebagh, Cornollen, Fihoges, Kilmore Upper, Mullolagher, Slieve

Placenames

Kilmore Lower 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.