Kill

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kill, from 17 m² to 118,080 m² (11.81 ha, 29.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Kill 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.

• 30 Oct 2025N/a

  The development will consist of the renovation of an existing cottage, the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system, and all associated site development works at Kill, Shrule, Co. Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560762

• 1 Jul 2024Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24254

• 23 Nov 2023Refused

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23625

• 17 Aug 2021Conditional

  DEMOLISH AN ATTACHED SHED AND CONSTRUCT AN ATTACHED SINGLE STOREY STUDIO

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21889

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: Shrule Turlough SAC 000525
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Shrule Turlough 000525

Recorded monuments

• MA121-154001 Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular
  Description

  On S slope of prominent ridge in pasture, now surrounded by graveyard. Field system (MA121-154003-) to E. Historically known as Killeenbrennan, founded prior to 1428 for Third Order Regular of St. Francis. Granted to Thomas Lewis on 5th April 1574 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 271). Extensive ruins of church with S side chapel; remains of walls and buildings on N side, all enclosed by low wall with original W gateway. Buildings heavily overgrown and ivy-clad. Church (int. dims. 21m N-S; 6m E-W) entered through W doorway with ogee window overhead; late medieval grave slab at E end. To S is side chapel, accessed through remains of round arch overhead (6.3m N-S; 5.5m E-W); with ogee window and piscina on S gable. To N is rectangular two storey building with huge accumulation of earth in ground-floor; lighted by narrow windows. E and N of this are structural remains of several buildings. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 640. Attached images: MA121-154001-_01.JPG Viewed from S MA121-154001-_02.JPG Viewed from SW MA121-154001-_03.JPG Viewed from SW MA121-154001-_04.JPG Viewed from W, arched gateway in centre MA121-154001-_05.JPG W gable of church MA121-154001-_06.JPG Church viewed from W, with S chapel extending to R MA121-154001-_07.JPG S chapel viewed from SW MA121-154001-_08.JPG Gable end of S chapel MA121-154001-_09.JPG Window in gable of S chapel MA121-154001-_10.JPG E wall of S chapel MA121-154001-_11.JPG Window in E wall of S chapel Date of upload: 14 January 2015

• MA121-154002 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA121-154005 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA122-047001 Earthwork
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA122-047002 Field system
  Description

  In undulating pasture, immediately E of abbey (MA121-154001-). Aerial photographs (CUCAP BDN 66, 67, 91, 92, 94) show low earthen banks enclosing oval and rectilinear fields; many with cultivation ridges. Covers an area of c. 51,000 sq.m. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 574. Attached images: MA121-154003-_01.JPG MA121-154003-_02.JPG MA121-154003-_03.JPG Date of upload: 14 January 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kill, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kill · Cillín Bréanainn

Area

782,513 m² (78.25 ha, 193.36 acres)

Civil parish

Moorgagagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Dalgan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,169 people lived in 437 households in the Dalgan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bullaun, Cregnanagh, Gorteens, Moorgagagh, Ramolin, Tobernadarry

Placenames

Kill 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.