Kilcar

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcar, from 130 m² to 178,443 m² (17.84 ha, 44.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilcar 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.

• 4 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct 1 no. dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and alter existing entrance onto road and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460518

• 25 Sept 2024Conditional

  Planning permission to construct a single dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460455

• 26 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a 4 bay slatted shed, 4 bay lie back and 4 bay cattle handling area, also a manure pit/dungstead together with associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18539

• 19 Oct 2018N/a

  Planning permission to construct 4 bay slatted shed, 4 bay lie back and 4 bay cattle handling area, also a manure pit/dungsted together with associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18528

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 Kilcar.

Recorded monuments

• RO048-009 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked as a circular tree ring (diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a small circular feature (diam. c. 25m) on the 1915 ed. Situated in a gently undulating landscape, it is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-070 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular area (int. diam. 38.9m NNW-SSE; 38.3m ENE-WSW) defined by the grass-covered remnants of a stone wall with external and some internal facing-stones (Wth 1.9-2.1m). There is no identifiable original entrance, and the monument is bisected by an ENE-WSW field wall, being grass-covered with trees to the S, and scrub-covered N of this feature. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-071 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 25.9m N-S; 25.2m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.9m) with no visible fosse, and with an entrance at ESE. An E-W field wall overlies the perimeter at S. Rath (RO048-072----) is c. 180m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-072 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 28m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.55-0.9m), with a fosse (Wth of top 5.4m; Wth of base 2.1m; ext. D 0.2m) ENE-SSE. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO048-071----) is c. 180m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-073 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a circular wooded enclosure on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular feature (dims c. 45m N-S; c. 40m E-W) on the 1915 ed. Situated in an undulating landscape, it is described locally as an area defined by an earthen bank that was covered in trees. It is not visible now at ground level in pasture, and it may have been a tree-ring. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Kilcar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Kilcar · Cill Cháir

Area

3,127,344 m² (312.73 ha, 772.78 acres)

Civil parish

Cam, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Kilcar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcar electoral division: 384 people in 136 households; 88% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cam, Carrick, Coolagarry, Coolnageer, Curraghboy, Curry, Liscam

Placenames

Kilcar 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.