Kildarra

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kildarra, from 248 m² to 88,381 m² (8.84 ha, 21.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kildarra 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 Kildarra 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kildarra.

Recorded monuments

• MA102-041 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In pasture, located at the base of a S-facing slope. There is a modern house c. 20m to SW. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as ‘St Bridgets Wells’ and on the 1916 edition as ‘St Bridget’s Wells (Site of)’. A circular pool (diam. 0.7m) is enclosed within a modern concrete surround. According to local information, this holy well was the focus of a pattern dedicated to St. Bridget, but it is no longer in use as a holy well. Kildara church (MA102-042001-) and graveyard (MA102-042002-) are located 100m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 September 2022

• MA102-042001 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (MA102-042002-). This church is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps, but the 1838 OS Letters record that the townland name, meaning Church of the Oak tree, was derived from ‘an old church, a small portion of which, it is said, remains in a churchyard.’ In the NW of the graveyard, adjacent to the N enclosing wall, is a low, sod-covered linear bank (L 17m; Wth 1.3m; H 0.4-0.5m) on a roughly E-W axis. Stones protrude randomly from the sod suggesting that it may be the remains of a wall. It might be a remnant of the church; alternatively, it may be the remains of an earlier graveyard wall or some other feature, Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 September 2022

• MA102-042002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on a ridge, at the break of slope on the S side. The location provides extensive views. On the 1838 OS 6-inch map the graveyard is shown in the NW corner of a large subrectangular space named ‘Glebe’, which shares its E and S boundaries with the townland boundary. The graveyard comprises a rectangular area (c. 44m NNW–SSE; C. 66m ENE–WSW) enclosed on the W, N and E by a stone wall. The S wall was removed in the 20th-century when an extension of the graveyard was opened, covering the ridge slope immediately to S. An E–W concrete path, apparently on the line of the original S wall, marks the division between the older graveyard and the modern extension. The N two thirds of the graveyard encompass a raised, relatively level area, and the enclosing walls barely rise above interior ground level, consisting for the most part of a stone-faced scarps (ext. H 1.2m). In the S third of the graveyard, however, the ground slopes markedly to the S with some evidence of rough scarping or terracing. The interior ground surface is undulating and uneven, and covered with moss and grass which obscures the outline of many graves. Recumbent graveslabs and ‘Celtic’ headstones inscribed with dates of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries predominate, but low, uninscribed stone gravemarkers are also evident throughout. A low, sod-covered linear bank (L 17m; Wth 1.3m; H 0.4-0.5m) on a roughly E-W axis in the NW quadrant is of uncertain significance; one possibility is that it is a remnant of a church (MA0102-042001-) that the 1838 OS letters recorded in this graveyard. According to local tradition, a mass rock (MA102-042003-) was located adjacent to the graveyard. A holy well (MA102-041----) dedicated to St. Bridget is 100m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 September 2022

• MA102-062 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Located in a pocket of peat, at the base of a hill at the interface between zones of peat and dry pasture land. This fulacht fia was discovered during archaeological monitoring of the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme (2001-2002) and was subsequently fully excavated (01E0967) (Guinan 2015, 74-83; 87-89, Kildarra I). This fulacht fia consisted of a compact, irregular-shaped spread (5.3m N–S; 2.3m E–W) of heat-shattered sandstone and some limestone fragments, in a matrix of charcoal-rich peat. The mound had suffered disturbance in the past. A subcircular trough, cut into the underlying boulder clay, was located 1.3m E of the burnt stone. The trough (L 1.2m; Wth 0.7m; D 0.62m) had steep sides and a flat base. Alder wood chips, a degraded timber post and two unidentifiable fragments of burnt bone were found in the trough fill. Part of a blackthorn post (diam. 0.05m) was preserved where it had been driven into the ground on the S edge of the trough. A cluster of timber posts (diam. 0.02-0.05m), forming an arc, were found 2.5m to SE of the trough. A charcoal sample submitted for radiocarbon analysis produced a date (2500 +/-45 BP (800-409 BC) indicating the latter stages of the Late Bronze Age. Another fulacht fia (MA102-63----) was located 50m to S. (Guinan 2015, 74-83; 87-89). Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 March 2016

• MA102-063 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Located on the edge of a peat deposit at the base of a low hill, at the interface between zones of peat and dry pasture land. This burnt mound was discovered during archaeological monitoring of the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme (2001-2002) and was subsequently fully excavated (01E0967) (Guinan 2015, 74-76; 83-89, Kildarra II). The burnt mound had suffered disturbance in the past. It consisted of a low mound (3.6m N–S; 7.4m E–W; max. D 0.1m) of burnt sandstone in a charcoal-rich matrix, truncated on its E and S sides by a field drain. An isolated charcoal-rich deposit (0.5m x 0.4m; max. D 0.05m) was found 5m NE of the main mound. No trough was found. One chert flake and five unidentifiable fragments of animal bone were recovered. A charcoal sample submitted for radiocarbon analysis produced a date (2902 +/-82 BP (1386-900 BC) indicating the early stages of the Late Bronze Age. Another fulacht fia (MA102-62----) was located 25m to N. (Guinan 2015, 74-76; 83-89). Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 March 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kildarra, 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 Kildarra.

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 Kildarra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Kildarra · Cill Dara

Area

425,939 m² (42.59 ha, 105.25 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Culnacleha, the unit of the census

Census 2022

483 people lived in 184 households in the Culnacleha electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickacat, Carrowneden, Cornacarta, Redhill, Tulrohaun

Placenames

Kildarra 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.