Kilquire Upper

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilquire Upper, from 1,358 m² to 120,675 m² (12.07 ha, 29.82 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 Kilquire 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.

• 14 May 2026Conditional

  Construction of a five bay slatted cattle shed

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26106

• 1 Aug 2025Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25319

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  Full Planning Permission is being sought to construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area and domestic garage along with all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560001

• 16 Sept 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22807

• 24 Jun 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLINGHOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22520

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK/PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211095

• 6 Nov 2020Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURE AND PEN FOR HOUSING OF HORSES AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENTS.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 20836

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 Kilquire Upper.

Recorded monuments

• MA118-084001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture. Circular area (34m N-S; 32m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.2m) and external fosse (D 0.9m). Low, outer earthen bank (H 0.5m), levelled on E where it is overlain by stone field fence. Entrance on SE (Wth 4.8m) with causeway. Souterrain (MA118-084002-) in interior. Stone field fence bisects site roughly E to W. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 176. Date of upload: 18 December 2013

• MA118-084002 Souterrain
  Description

  In interior of ringfort (MA118-084001-). Two stone-built chambers; may have been connected originally. Chamber 1 (L 5.7m NW-SE; H 1.5m) largely infilled, contains two air vents. W is Chamber 2 (L c. 22m N-S), collapsed from mid-point to S end. N end inaccessible at time of survey. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 520. Date of upload: 18 December 2013

• MA119-070003 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilquire 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_428 (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 Kilquire Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Kilquire Upper · Cill Chuair Uachtair

Area

790,470 m² (79.05 ha, 195.33 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmainemore, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Kilmaine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,014 people lived in 375 households in the Kilmaine electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardkill, Caherwiclaun, Ellistronbeg, Killernan, Kilquire Lower

Placenames

Kilquire 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.