Kinkillew

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kinkillew, from 911 m² to 226,703 m² (22.67 ha, 56.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Kinkillew 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.

• 8 May 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of (a) demolish existing single storey detached dwelling house and storage sheds, (b) construct a replacement storey and a half detached dwelling house, (c) install a waste water treatment system with percolation area, (d) decommission existing septic tank on site, (e) carry out all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19178

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 Kinkillew.

Recorded monuments

• SL027-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing, on the S side of a high ridge. A raised circular area (c. 45m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and an external fosse. The bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) is reduced to a slight internal lip S-NW and levelled NNW-NNE. The fosse is evident as a very slight depression (Wth c. 3m) ENE-S. The interior is crossed on a N-S axis by a field boundary and drain off-centre to W and on an E-W axis by a field boundary just inside the levelled bank at N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-065 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a narrow ridge. A slightly raised circular area (18m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank and an external fosse. The bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.3m) is generally low and eroded by animals and reduced to a slight internal lip along the NW arc. A possible entrance (Wth 2m) is at E and gaps (Wth 3m) occur at NW and SE. The line of the fosse is evident only as a band of dense vegetation (Wth 2m) SW-W. Rushes grow in the interior. A N-S field boundary immediately to E is contiguous with the bank at E. Another rath (SL027-066----) lies c. 90m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing, on top of a ridge. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 21m) defined by a low eroded earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) N-S and by a scarp (H 1.4m) S-N. An external fosse is evident as a very slight depression (Wth 3m) E-S. A N-S field boundary crosses the interior off-centre to W. Another rath (SL027-065----) lies c. 90m to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-067 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough grazing, on top of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 16m) enclosed by an earthen bank and an external fosse. The bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1m) is highest along the S arc. A possible entrance (Wth 2m) is at E and there are eroded gaps (Wth c. 3.5m) at N and W. A band of rushes (Wth 3m) may mark the line of a silted-up external fosse. A rath (SL027-068----) is c. 50m to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of the E end of a ridge. A raised circular area (35m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank and an external fosse. The bank (Wth c. 8m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2m) is highest internally S-NE, levelled internally or reduced to a slight internal lip NE-S. The external face of the bank is eroded in places. The stone-lined entrance (Wth 2.5m) is at E. The fosse (Wth 4m; D 1.2m) is best evident S-N, being mostly infilled elsewhere. A circular enclosure (SL027-067----) lies c. 50m to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-070 Crannog
  Description

  In a wet meadow, in the NW end of the drained lake named 'Cloonskirt Lough' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The lake is surrounded by drumlins and views are restricted. An oval platform mound (4m N-S; 8m E-W; H 0.35m), the surface of which is quite even, which has a small concentration of stones evident at its W edge. The edges of the crannog are diffuse. A mature tree grows on the E portion of the mound. The crannog is indicated as an islet on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-170 Enclosure
  Description

  On level ground at the base of a ridge and adjacent to wet marshy ground at N and E. A roughly rectangular area (10m N-S; 13m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.4m). The entrance (Wth 2.5m) is in the E end of the N side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kinkillew, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1181 (ZIP).

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

Name

Kinkillew · Cionn Coilleadh

Area

1,079,551 m² (107.96 ha, 266.76 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

462 people lived in 163 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownspurraun, Clooskirt, Drumederalena, Lissaneeny, Rusheen, Rusheen

Placenames

Kinkillew 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.