Kinitty
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Ballintober South, Co. Roscommon; in Irish Cionn Eitigh
- Area
- 351 ha
- 867 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 32,670 m² (3.27 ha, 8.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kinitty, from 855 m² to 449,924 m² (44.99 ha, 111.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kinitty 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Kinitty 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kinitty.
Recorded monuments
- RO035-034001 Enclosure
Description
Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: AJN 85-88), and situated on a gentle W-facing slope of a N-S valley. At the centre, and integral with the fields (RO035-034002-), is a rectangular enclosure (dims 24.5m WNW-ESE; 15.7m NNE-SSW) defined by earthen banks (Wth 2-2.5m; H 0.1-0.4m) with an entrance (Wth 1m) towards the W end of the S perimeter and just E of a house site (RO035-034003-). There is a second house site (RO035-034005-) (int. dims c. 5m N-S; 2.3m E-W) at the NW angle of the enclosure. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO035-034002 Field system
Description
Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: AJN 85-88), and situated on the gentle W-facing slope of a N-S valley. An area of about 27 acres (c. 11 ha) contains the remains of a field system defined by earthen banks (Wth 1.5-2.3m; H 0.1-0.5m) creating rectangular fields (dims c. 50-100m x c. 50m) aligned WNW-ESE. At the centre, and integral with the fields, is a rectangular enclosure (RO035-034001-) (dims 24.5m WNW-ESE; 15.7m NNE-SSW) defined by earthen banks (Wth 2-2.5m; H 0.1-0.4m) with an entrance (Wth 1m) towards the W end of the perimeter at S and just E of a house site (RO035-034003-) (int. dims 11m E-W; 3.5m N-S) of two rooms with doorways (Wth 0.8m) at the centre of the long walls. There is a second house site (RO035-034005-) (int. dims c. 5m N-S; 2.3m E-W) at the NW angle of the enclosure. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO035-034003 House - indeterminate date
Description
Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: AJN 85-88), and situated on a gentle W-facing slope of a N-S valley. A house site (int. dims 11m E-W; 3.5m N-S) of two rooms with doorways (Wth 0.8m) at the centre of the long walls is situated just W of enclosure (RO035-034001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO035-034005 House - indeterminate date
Description
Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: AJN 85-88), and situated on a gentle W-facing slope of a N-S valley. There is a house site (int. dims c. 5m N-S; 2.3m E-W) at the NW angle of the enclosure (RO035-034001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO035-036 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
On the NW-facing slope of a low WNW-ESE ridge. Described as a low circular flat-topped mound defined by a fosse and an outer bank (Gannon 1972), it is no longer visible in improved pasture. Ring-barrow (RO035-037----) is c. 150m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO035-037 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
On the W-facing slope of a broad WNW-ESE ridge. Described in 1965 as a circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a fosse (Wth of base c. 2m) and an outer bank (Wth c. 1.5m; int. H c. 0.9m; ext. H c. 0.4m) (SMR file), it is no longer visible in improved pasture. Ring-barrow (RO035-036----) is c. 150m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO035-107 Barrow - mound barrow
Description
At a break in slope on a SE-facing slope, and known locally as 'Croghan'. D-shaped grass-covered mound (dims 7.4m E-W; 5.7m N-S; H 0.5-0.7m) which has been truncated at S by a relict earthen field bank. 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 Kinitty.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kinitty.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kinitty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Kinitty · Cionn Eitigh
- Area
- 3,510,265 m² (351.03 ha, 867.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober South
- Electoral division
- Kilbride South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbride South electoral division: 386 people in 145 households; 85% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinderry, Carrownalassan, Cartron, Gortcloonagh, Grange, Kiltultoge, Newtown Farragher, Rathconor
- Placenames
- Kinitty 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.