Cuilmore
Townland in the civil parish of Kilfree, barony of Coolavin, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Choill Mhór
Parcel 747685
- Area
- 97,647 m² (9.76 ha, 24.13 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 75 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cuilmore
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1042 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 783.2 ha
- 1,935 acres
- Land parcels
- 251
- registered freehold, median 14,528 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
251 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuilmore, from 43 m² to 176,685 m² (17.67 ha, 43.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 57 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 Cuilmore 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
19 Dec 2025Conditional
Retain a 124 Sqm dormer domestic garage, inclusive of ground floor storage and glazed potting room, and first floor art studio/ home office/ guest accommodation, and balcony area, together with all associated site works, landscaping and services connections
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560540
16 Jul 2023Conditional
1. An extension to the rear of an existing cottage. 2. A new front porch. 3. A new sewage treatment plant with raised tricel puraflo modules and a distribution area. 4. Minor alterations to existing cottage. 5. And all ancillary site works at this site
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360179
28 Sept 2021N/a
Development consisting of (1) The demolition of a single storey side extension (2) The construction of a front and side single storey extension (3) Alterations to the roof design of the existing dwelling house with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21388
5 Sept 2017Unconditional
for development consisting of the retention of existing garage as constructed (original Planning Ref: PL08/725)
Retention · Sligo County Council, 17338
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Flughany Bog SAC 000497
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Flughany Bog 000497
Recorded monuments
- SL044-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
On top of a rise, surrounded by low-lying wet ground. A raised roughly circular area (int. diam. 25.4m E-W; 28.7m N-S) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m). Possible stone facing is evident on the internal face of the bank at NE. The interior is uneven and slopes slightly down to N and there is a small mound (2.2m E-W; 2.5m N-S; H 0.55m) in the S half. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL044-028 Ringfort - rath
Description
In wet pasture, on the top of a drumlin ridge. A raised circular area (int. diam. 22m E-W; 24.8m N-S) enclosed by an eroded inner earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.5m). There is a possible outer bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m), with a narrow external drain, incorporated into the field boundary c. 3m outside the inner bank SSW-NNW. The interior slopes down to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL044-079 Cist
Description
In a quarry, on a S-facing slope and close to a stream. There are no visible remains of this cist. It was discovered during gravel extraction in 1945 and described as a grave with low side-walls and covered with three rough slabs; the displacement of one of the stones revealed 'some bones' (NMI). The stone was replaced and the grave covered over immediately after its discovery. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cuilmore.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1012 (ZIP).
- 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
- Cuilmore, Gurteen6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Cuilmore · An Choill Mhór
- Area
- 7,831,684 m² (783.17 ha, 1,935.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfree, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coolavin
- Electoral division
- Cuilmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cuilmore electoral division: 555 people in 227 households; 85% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghmore, Cloonfeightrin (Co. Mayo), Cloonlaheen, Flughany (Co. Mayo), Gortygara, Kilfree, Knocknahoo, Knocknashammer, Mountirvine, Ogham, Tawnaghbeg (Co. Mayo)
- Placenames
- Cuilmore 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.