Kilrusheighter

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilrusheighter, from 129 m² to 86,317 m² (8.63 ha, 21.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Kilrusheighter 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Kilrusheighter 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Aughris Head 000620

Recorded monuments

• SL012-016001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the NW edge of a NW-SE ridge overlooking a beach at the S side of Sligo Bay. Examaination of an aerial photograph suggests that it was originally circular in form (diam. c. 30m). It was defined at N, NE and SW by the natural slope of the ridge. Where the slope is highest and steepest, at W (H 4.5m), it is cordoned off by a linear NE-SW field boundary bank and gully. At its SW end, close to the edge of the ridge, the bank cuts through a possible hut site (SL012-016001-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-016002 Hut site
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of a possible rath (SL012-0016001-). This comprises a very slightly raised, circular area (diam. c. 10m; H 0.2m). It is cut on the W side by a field ditch and field bank. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-018 Barrow - stepped barrow
  Description

  In pasture, situated on a rise c. 80 from the S shore of Sligo Bay. Circular, flat-topped mound (diam. at base 21.6m; diam. of summit c. 10m; H 1.9-2.4m) of earth and stone. Centrally positioned upon the summit is a small, circular mound (diam. 7m; H 0.7m) which is well defined at S, W and N but which merges with the slope of the main mound at E. The main mound is encircled at its base by a shallow fosse (Wth. 2.6m - 3.4m; D 0.6m). At its outer lip at S are the remains of a narrow bank (Wth 2.8m; H 0.2m) of uncertain antiquity. A modern field wall overlies the fosse at NE-E. Known locally as 'Coggin's Hill' (FitzPatrick, E. (2001), PRIA, 100). FitzPatrick, E., with contributions by Fenwick J. (2007), 'Interpreting a cultural landscape: a case for sea-weed harvesting at Aughris, Co. Sligo' JIA, 11-34. FitzPatrick, E. (2001) 'The gathering place of Tír Fhiachragh: archaeological and folkloric investigations at Aughris, Co. Sligo' PRIA 101C, 67-105. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-020 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the NE side of a low rise in lowlying coastal pasture. Not marked on the 1837 OS 6-inch map. Raised subrectangular area (27m WNW-ESE; 15m NNE-SSW) whose NNE and SSW sides are defined by a much disturbed, low bank (Wth. 2.5m - 4.3m; H 0.5m) of earth and stone, and by a slight scarp elsewhere. A low scarp, probably remnants of a field boundary, extends from the NW to WNW, and remnants of other partly levelled field boundaries, shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map, can be seen to N, E and S. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-126 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  Situated on a low round hillock. Remains comprise traces of a round mound (c. 20m N-S by 14m E-W for surviving section). Only half of mound survives to W of fence. Two set stones, 2m apart, may represent the last vestiges of a chamber. The possibility that this might be the remains of a passage tomb cannot be excluded. Compiled by: Eamon Cody Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilrusheighter, 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 Kilrusheighter.

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

Name

Kilrusheighter · Cill Rois Íochtair

Area

854,651 m² (85.47 ha, 211.19 acres)

Civil parish

Templeboy, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Templeboy North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

314 people lived in 112 households in the Templeboy North electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardgivna, Ardogelly, Aughris, Corkagh More, Garryduff, Rathglass

Placenames

Kilrusheighter 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.