Kilmore

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmore, from 12 m² to 210,081 m² (21.01 ha, 51.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Kilmore 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.

• 28 Jun 2018Conditional

  The development consists of an existing 15m telecommunications support structure which carries 3 No. aerials for the emergency service users (Garda, Ambulance and Fire Brigade) previously granted permission under Planning Ref. PD/08/179 together with telecommunications equipment and fencing at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 18317

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

• RO018-001 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope. Reputedly built in 1630 (Lewis, 1837, vol. 2, 186), a James Lawder, son of William Lawder of Bunny Beg, Mohill, Co. Leitrim, married Deboragh Doherty of Kilmore and their son was born in 1709. The house may have been built then, and it is still occupied as a modernised farmhouse. Rectangular four-bay two storey structure with a narrow round-headed doorway and narrow side-lights. (Hanly 1994, 24) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO018-002001 Graveslab
  Description

  A graveslab (dims 1.05m x 0.3m; T 0.05m) with an inscription, recording Edwina, the daughter of MacBrannan, and the date 1357 (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 2, 22-3; Bayly 1901-03, 427) is inside the entrance to the graveyard (RO018-002004-) at church site (RO018-002003-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO018-002002 Memorial stone
  Description

  A Church of Ireland church, which has a monument on its W wall of James King, the son of Edward King, Bishop of Elphin, dated 1687 (Craig 1976, 14; Hanly 1994) is within the graveyard (RO018-002004-). The memorial is described by Bayly (1903, 427) as '6' 6'' by 2' 6" (c. 1.98m x c. 0.75m)' and beneath a crest of a lion and the motto ‘In God is my trust’ the inscription reads: HEER. LYES. THE. BODY. OF / JAMES KING. OF. CHARLESTOWNE / ESQ. THE SON. OF. DOCTOR. ED-/WARD KING. BISHOPP. OF. EL-/PHIN. WHO DYED. ON. SA-/TURDAY. YE 2ND OF. APRILL/ IN. YE YEAR. OF. OUR. LORD/ GOD. 1687. BE/ING. YE 77TH/ YEARE/OF. HIS. ADGE/ANNO DOM./1.68.7 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 30 June 2015

• RO018-002003 Religious house - Augustinian canons
  Description

  The parish church of Kilmore is listed as Kilmore in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 224). It is probably the site of the abbey of Kilmore of Tir Briuin na Sinna (RO018-026002*), which was reputedly founded by St Patrick (Stokes 1887b, 95). In 1232 the church of Kilmore in Hy Briuin na Sinna was consecrated by Donnagh O'Conor, Bishop of Elphin, when it was placed under the Augustinian rule. In 1249 Con O'Flanagan, the prior, and Teige O'Monaghan, Lord of Ui Briuin na Sionna were buried there (AFM vol. 3, P 261, 333). The abbey may have been transformed into a parish church in 1412, but it continued at least until the mid-fifteenth century. In 1580 it was leased by a Tyrell O'Farrell (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 183). Situated on a level landscape. There is no evidence of an early church structure within a rectangular graveyard (RO018-002004-) (dims 64m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by masonry walls, containing a Church of Ireland church, which has a memorial (RO018-002002-) to James King, son of Edward King, Bishop of Elphin dated 1687 (Bayly 1901-03, 427; Craig 1976a, 14; Hanly 1994). A grave-slab (RO018-002001-) (dims 1.05m x 0.3m; T 0.05m) with an inscription, recording Edwina, the daughter of MacBrannan, and the date 1357 (Bayley 1901-03, 425-6; O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 2, 22-3) is inside the entrance to the graveyard. The site of Tobernacleggan well (RO018-003----) is c. 130m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO018-002004 Graveyard
  Description

  Rectangular graveyard (dims. 64m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by a masonry wall on the site of a church (RO018-002003-) contains a C of I church, now closed, which has memorials (RO018-002002-) from 1687 onwards (Craig 1976, 14). A graveslab (RO018-002003-) is inside the entrance to the graveyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO018-002005 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Reported by Mr. Jean-Charles Caillere (8-7-2022). In level pasture and originally enclosing the probable site of the abbey of Kilmore of Tir Briuin na Sinna (RO018-026002*), which was reputedly founded by St Patrick (Stokes 1887b, 95), and later occupied by an Augustinian Abbey (RO018-002003-) and subsequently by a C of I church, and a graveyard (RO018-002004-). ‘Tobermacleggan’ holy well (RO018-003----) lies c. 40m to ESE. Visible on GoogleEarth aerial imagery dated March 2022 as the cropmarks of the southern section of two enclosing elements surrounding the ecclesiastical site: an inner enclosing bank (est. diam. c. 90m) along with a second, outer enclosing bank (est. diam. c. 140m) are visible E-S-SW of the graveyard. See attachment RO018-002005-_01 Snip of GoogleEarth aerial image (March 2022) supplied by Mr. Jean-Charles Caillere: enclosing banks arrowed; holy well circled. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 20 December 2022

Architectural heritage

• The Thatch, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey house, built c.1820, with disused pubfront. Pitched thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Timber sash windows with stucco surrounds, stone sills and cast-iron window guards. Timber battened door with tiled step serving living quarters. Pubfront comprising a fixed pane window and timber battened double doors. House fronts onto street.

• Kilmore Church, church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1828, with three-bay nave, with central bay gable-fronted. Three-stage castellated tower to west and vestry to east. Repaired, 1901. Closed, 1996. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with stone coping, finials and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed walls with dressed quoins and string course and battered plinth to tower. Pointed-arched timber traceried windows with diamond panes set into cut stone reveals with splayed sills. Hood mouldings above. Double timber battened door, accessed by limestone steps, set in pointed arch with tooled stone surround and hood moulding. Plaque to south façade of tower. Varied upright and recumbent grave markers and mausolea around church. Site bounded by random coursed stone walls. Stone sweep to entrance with niches and arch to gateway with wrought-iron gates.

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 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. Roscommon.

Name

Kilmore · Cill Mhór

Area

229,262 m² (22.93 ha, 56.65 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober North

Electoral division

Cloonteen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

312 people lived in 124 households in the Cloonteen electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowcuill, Clogher, Clooncommon More, Skeagh, Tooloscan, Tully

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.