Killure

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killure, from 87 m² to 39,652 m² (3.97 ha, 9.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Killure 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.

• 2 Nov 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of demoltition of existing dwelling and construction of new dwelling complete with on-site sewerage treatment system, associated percolation area, hard and soft landscaping and all other associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18428

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• SL036-033001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (SL036-033002-), c. 300m ENE of Killure, and adjacent to a church (SL036-033003-). The mound indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map, and on which the remains of the church are located, is likely to consist of fallen rubble from the church. There are no visible remains of the children's burial ground. 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

• SL036-033002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on the summit of a low rise c. 1km N of Aclare. An arc (C 66m) of an earthen field boundary NW-SE, surrounding the remains of a church (SL036-033003-), may follow the line of an ecclesiastical enclosure. The site of a graveyard (SL037-021---) lies immediately to the E. 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

• SL036-033003 Church
  Description

  Within a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (SL036-033002-). Standing on a low D-shaped sod-covered mound (H c. 1m; 13.5m N-S; 12.4m E-W) are fragmentary remains of a rectangular church (int. dims. 6.7m E-W; 4.4m N-S). Surviving sections of walling stand to c. 0.7m high but no doorway or window features are evident. The mound, which is indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map, is likely to be made up of rubble fallen from the church. Recorded in 1836 as the 'remains of an old nunnery' (OSNB vol. 2, 164), but no such foundation is listed by Gwynn and Hadcock (1970). The site of a graveyard (SL037-021----) lies immediately to the E. No remains are evident of the 'Children's Burial Ground' (SL036-033001-) marked at this location on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. 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

• SL037-021 Graveyard
  Description

  There are no evident remains of the subrectangular graveyard (c. 75m N-S; c. 40m E-W) indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. A possible ecclesiastical enclosure (SL036-033002-) and church (SL036-033003-) lie immediately to the W. 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 Killure.

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 Killure, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Killure with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Killure · Cill Iúir

Area

451,161 m² (45.12 ha, 111.48 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacteige, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Kilmacteige, the unit of the census

Census 2022

226 people lived in 83 households in the Kilmacteige electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowreagh, Cloonbarry, Kincuillew, Lislea

Placenames

Killure 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.