Kilmurry Beg

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmurry Beg, from 1,022 m² to 62,479 m² (6.25 ha, 15.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Beg 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.

• 17 Oct 2024Conditional

  Full Planning Permission for (1) Extension and re-purposing of existing farm buildings as a wellness centre and retreat (2) Construction of 3 self-catering dwellings adjacent to the farm buildings (3) new percolation area and associated site works to enhance the existing Kilmurray House Bed and Breakfast at Kilmurray House, Kilmurry Beg, Castlehill, Ballina, Co. Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460648

• 19 Jan 2023Conditional

  Full planning permission for the following; (1) Demolish existing detached dormer dwelling house, (2) Construct replacement detached dormer dwelling house, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360012

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 Beg.

Recorded monuments

• MA038-078 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on the top of an E–W ridge with panoramic views, especially extensive to S over an expanse of rolling grassland. Raised circular area (20m E–W) defined by a scarp (H 1.8m; Wth ext. slope 5m, at W). The scarp, which incorporates much stone on its external face, is enhanced by and merges with the natural ridge slope, with an especially steep fall of ground NE–S. The contours of the ridge also give the interior a slightly domed profile on its E–W axis. There is a drop in interior ground level in the NE–E. There is a low area in the scarp at SW, but the original entrance may have been at the NE, where a broad low section of scarp faces onto the level top of the ridge. A property fence bisects the interior roughly centrally on an E–W axis. The base of the ridge slope immediately to SE of the rath has been steeply quarried out to facilitate the construction of a slatted shed and farm yard. There is an embanked enclosure (MA038-180----) 90m to W. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 1 August 2019

• MA038-079 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, in a thicket of hazel and blackthorn, located on top of a ridge, utilising the steep fall of ground on the E side, and adjacent to the northern boundary of the townland. Named ‘Rathmurry’ on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch map, this rath consists of a slightly raised circular area (24.8m E–W) defined by an earthen scarp (ext. H 0.85m at N), which is poorly defined at W, but merges on the E side with the steep natural fall of the ridge slope. At NW-NE and S–SW remnants of a stone bank or wall can be traced defining the top of the scarp. The wall appears as a low jumble (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.4m) of loose stones. At NW contiguous set stones suggest in situ kerb or internal facing. The interior is strewn with loose stone. The outline of a roughly square area (c. 8m NNW–SSE; c. 7.5m ENE–WSW) in the centre of the interior is defined sporadically on E, S, and W by a slight stone bank (Wth 1-1.4m; H 0.2m) consisting of a low jumble of stones. The N end of this feature is not clear. Its S boundary appears to coincide with a break of slope, with the area to S at a slightly lower level. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 1 August 2019

• MA038-080 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture, situated on a low rise in an area of undulating terrain, overlooked by an E–W ridge of higher ground to N. There is a gentle rise in ground to E. Nephin Mountain dominates the view to SSW, and the Nephin Beg range defines the skyline at S–W. A slightly raised, circular platform (diam. 9.5m) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.4m), and enclosed by a fosse (Wth 1.8m) with an external bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.85m). Some field clearance stones are strewn in the interior and on the bank. Hawthorn trees ring the perimeter. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 1 August 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Beg.

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 Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Kilmurry Beg · Cill Mhuire Bheag

Area

450,036 m² (45 ha, 111.21 acres)

Civil parish

Crossmolina, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Crossmolina South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crossmolina South electoral division: 870 people in 349 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrinoge, Ballyvicmaha, Kilmurry More, Richmond, Sranalaghta North

Placenames

Kilmurry Beg 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.