Kilmurry South
Kilmurry South is a townland in the civil parish of Redcross, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Cill Mhuire Theas.
Parcel 5060252
- Area
- 357 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Kilmurry South
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- 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
- 85.5 ha
- 211 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 21,950 m² (2.19 ha, 5.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmurry South, from 357 m² to 390,097 m² (39.01 ha, 96.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilmurry South 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
7 Dec 2018N/a
construction of a two storey dwelling with garage, well, new vehicular entrance, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181370
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 Kilmurry South.
Recorded monuments
- WI036-004 Church
Description
Situated on a gentle W-facing slope on the edge of a small stream. This site is now occupied by a modern farmyard complex and there is no local memory of any features. Marked as 'Grave Yard, (Site of) Church' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. A holy well (Lady Well) (WI036-003----) lies 200m to the N in Kilmurry North. (O'Flanagan 1928, 128, 132) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
- WI036-004001 Graveyard
Description
Situated on a gentle W-facing slope on the edge of a small stream. This site is now occupied by a modern farmyard complex and there is no local memory of any features. Marked as 'Grave Yard, (Site of) Church' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. A holy well (Lady Well) (WI036-003----) lies 200m to the N in Kilmurry North. (O'Flanagan 1928, 128, 132) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 13 September 2013
- WI036-037 Pit
Description
This is the record for the pits excavated by Red Tobin (E3235) on the N11 road improvement scheme. The pits were morphologically similar and possibly connedted with settlement in the area. Three sherds of Beaker pottery associated with the pits date them to then late Neolithic/early Bronze Age period. (Tobin 2009b) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 18 January 2013
- WI036-077 Burnt spread
Description
This is the record for the burnt spread excvavated by Yvonne Whitty (E3233) on the N11 road improvement scheme. Associated with the spread was a sub-circular trough (1.84m x 1.3m; depth 0.3m). No artefacts or dating material was recovered from the feature. (Whitty 2009l) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload; 22 January 2013
- WI036-078 Burnt mound
Description
This is the record for the burnt mound (Spread B) excavated by Yvonne Whitty (E3234) on the N11 road improvement scheme. The burnt material comprised of four separate deposits, possibly indicationg four phases of activity. The burnt material sealed a trough and a pit, with the latter possibly functioning as an auxiliary trough. (Whitty 2009m) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 22 January 2013
- WI036-079 Burnt spread
Description
This is the record for the small burnt spread and the associated pit excavated by Yvonne Whitty (E3234) on the N11 road improvement scheme. The pit contained a single find identified as a convex end scraper of Neolithic date and may represent the earliest phase of activity at the site. (Whitty 2009m) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 22 January 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilmurry South.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kilmurry South, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilmurry South.
- 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 Kilmurry South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmurry South · Cill Mhuire Theas
- Area
- 854,897 m² (85.49 ha, 211.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Redcross, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Dunganstown South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 954 people lived in 320 households in the Dunganstown South electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyclogh North, Ballyherrig, Ballyvaltron, Kilmurry North, Rahaval, Templelyon Upper, Togher
- Placenames
- Kilmurry South 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.