Kilmacsherwell

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmacsherwell, from 337 m² to 80,978 m² (8.1 ha, 20.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Kilmacsherwell 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.

• 18 May 2022Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance onto the public road, onsite wastewater treatment system with connection to services and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2284

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 Kilmacsherwell.

Recorded monuments

• LE024-053 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located in pasture on a slight rise in an undulating, low-lying landscape with the Ballinamore and Ballyconnell canal c. 50m to the N. The castle was an Ó Duighgeannáin (O’Duignan) castle known as Caisleán Coillte Foghair where, according to the earliest references in the annals (AFM; Ann. Conn.), in 1409 ‘John and Conla O’Cuirnin were killed by Dermot, son of Murtagh O’Cuirnin, in the house of Ó Duigheannáin’. The O’Duignan family were bards and ollamhs (teachers) to the Conmaicne and other Gaelic families of north Connaught and north Leinster during the Middle Ages, and were thought to have had a bardic school at Coillte Foghair. One of the compilers of the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland (Annals of the Four Masters) was Cú Coigriche Mac Tuathaill Ó Duighgeannáin from Coillte Foghair, who was known as Peregrine (MacNamee 1954, 629-30; Cunningham 2019). The castle may have been re-used or re-built by Col. Coote in the 17th century, when it became known as Castlefore but not because it had four towers. It was destroyed in the 1641 rebellion, reputedly having been betrayed by a female servant (McParlan 1802, 90-91; Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 617). The castle cannot be identified on the Down Survey (1656-8) maps unless it has become confused with the unlocated castle at Cornabrone (LE024-058----). It survived into the nineteenth century as three walls and three corner-towers with gun-loops and was probably a tower house. No feature is visible now at ground level, apart from two parallel banks (L c. 35m) placed 7m apart extending SSE, which may be the remains of a roadway. 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. Compiled by Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 13 January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilmacsherwell · Coill Mhac Searbhaill

Area

693,629 m² (69.36 ha, 171.4 acres)

Civil parish

Fenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Castlefore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

237 people lived in 89 households in the Castlefore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Boneill, Drumany (Tenants), Gubroe, Keshcarrigan, Kiltyfinnan, Leamanish, Rossy

Placenames

Kilmacsherwell 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.