Kilmore Upper

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmore Upper, from 7 m² to 257,702 m² (25.77 ha, 63.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Upper 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.

• 20 Feb 2025Conditional

  the proposed installation of an onsite sewerage system with polishing filter in accordance with EPA code of practice 2021 to service existing cottage type dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560028

• 13 Aug 2021Conditional

  the proposed demolition of existing agricultural building together with the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21240

• 13 May 2021Conditional

  conversion and extension to existing garage to granny-flat to the side of existing dwelling, provision of new detached garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21145

• 5 Nov 2020N/a

  Construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable wastewater system with polishing filter & ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20259

• 16 Jun 2017Conditional

  for the proposed demolition of existing agricultural outhouse and proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment unit with percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17167

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

• LF013-109 Structure - peatland
  Description

  A deposit of archaeological wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-110 Structure - peatland
  Description

  A deposit of archaeological wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-111 Structure - peatland
  Description

  A deposit of archaeological wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-112 Structure - peatland
  Description

  A deposit of archaeological wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-157 Ford
  Description

  A ford is named along a routeway on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Longford barony (NLI MS 719) where it crosses the Fallen River; another one is depicted where it crosses the Camlin River (see LF008-043----). This ford may be the same one that is described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as the ‘foord of Bellanesse’ (Simington 1961, vol. 10, 46). No visible remains survive. (Doran 2010, 14) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 May 2012

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over Fallan River, built c. 1860. Segmental-headed arch with rock-faced voussoirs to arch. Dressed margins to voussoirs. Squared rock-faced masonry spandrels and abutments, squared dressed masonry to barrel. Rock-faced parapets with rock-faced coping over. Rubble stone wing walls to ends of parapets (north and south) having rounded coping over. Located to the north the southeast of Cloondara.

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 Upper, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilmore Upper · An Choill Mhór Uachtarach

Area

1,570,265 m² (157.03 ha, 388.02 acres)

Civil parish

Clongesh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Cloondara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

718 people lived in 265 households in the Cloondara electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghareagh Bog, Clooneeny, Cloonmore, Gowlan, Kilmore Lower, Mullagh Bog, Mullolagher, Slieve

Placenames

Kilmore Upper 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.