Kilmore

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmore, from 52 m² to 78,298 m² (7.83 ha, 19.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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.

• O2General
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Social & Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 17 Nov 2022Conditional

  erect a 24 metre high lattice telecommunications support structure ( with overall height of 27.1m) together with antennas, dishes, and associated telecommunications equipment within an existing security compound and to remove an existing 18 metre high monopole telecommunications support structure

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 22238

• 30 Aug 2022Conditional

  (a) demolish an existing water tower structure and outbuildings, (b) create car parking and bus set down defined areas, and (c) construct all ancillary works associated with the above

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 22178

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 Kilmore.

Recorded monuments

• LE018-020 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on level ground within Dowra village with a N-S section of the River Shannon c. 30m to the W. It is indicated as a D-shaped enclosure (dim. c. 25m) on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a 'fort'. It is not visible at ground level under housing. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 13 December 2011

• LE018-022 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Located on the NE-facing slope of a small drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 27m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by a grass-covered and overgrown stone spread (Wth 1.5m at E to 4m at W; H 0.4m) with facing-stones intermittently visible. The original entrance is not identified, and a field wall (Wth c. 1m; H 1m) has been built on top of the perimeter. It has been excluded from a forest planted c. 2000 (Bing 2013). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE018-071 Sweathouse
  Description

  Situated towards the top of the E-facing slope of a drumlin and built into a field wall c. 20m E of an abandoned farmhouse. Marked only on the latest edition of the OS 6-inch map. Part of the curve of the backwall of a chamber can be seen. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Dowra Bridge, bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch stone bridge, built c.1860, spanning east-west over the River Shannon, with smaller dry arch to west end, gently sloped west bank, and steeply sloped east bank. Rock-faced abutments and piers having V-cutwaters to central piers on both elevations with sloped and stepped ashlar caps over continuous ashlar impost course. Segmental main arches with punched ashlar soffit and raised stepped V-jointed voussoirs with keystone, battered and tapered buttresses to either end of three-arched section spanning river. Smaller round dry arch with rubble stone soffit and similar voussoirs. Coursed roughly punched ashlar spandrel and parapet walls with dressed margins. Platband surmounting keystones, coursed rock-faced spandrel to embankment wing walls. Coping of larger projecting finely punched sandstone cap-stones.

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, 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 Kilmore.

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

Name

Kilmore · An Choill Mhór

Area

824,441 m² (82.44 ha, 203.72 acres)

Civil parish

Drumreilly, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Yugan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

238 people lived in 104 households in the Yugan electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 27% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornageeha, Cornaguillagh, Dowra (Co. Cavan), Garvesk (Co. Cavan), Sruhanagh (Co. Cavan), Tullaghyrory (Co. Cavan), Tullynapurtlin

Placenames

Kilmore 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.