Kilmorgan

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmorgan, from 166 m² to 119,751 m² (11.98 ha, 29.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Kilmorgan 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.

• 1 Oct 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a new house and domestic garage and installation of a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19410

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 Kilmorgan.

Recorded monuments

• SL034-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. A roughly circular area (31m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.9m) N-NNE and by a scarp (ext. H 0.6m) NNE-SE. The S perimeter of the interior is truncated by a substantial earth and stone field boundary. Elsewhere the enclosing element has been removed but the limit of the rath is visible as a band of darker grass and a very slight inward-facing scarp. The E half of the interior is crossed by NW-SE field boundary and drain. To W of this boundary the interior has been extensively disturbed and levelled down to external ground level, is now a dumping area for old cars and the S half of it is densely covered with overgrowth. On the E side of the boundary, the interior is undisturbed, slightly raised above external ground level and slopes slightly down to SE. 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

• SL034-081001 Church
  Description

  In rough pasture, at the top of an E-facing slope, in the NE corner of Kilmorgan graveyard (SL034-081002-). This church is indicated as a rectangular structure (c. 20m E-W) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The E gable (ext. 7.24m N-S; T 1m) with returns of the S (ext. 7.7m) and N (ext. 12m) walls, constructed of random-rubble mortared limestone, survive. There is no trace of the W end. The E gable has a central window embrasure with a single round-headed light (Wth 0.25m; H 1.8m) which is chamfered and rebated externally. Near the E end of the S wall is another window embrasure, with a double light which is missing the upper part of its mullion and the central part of the top. This unusual light was formed from a single block of limestone, including the mullion. There is a wall-press under the E side of this window, on the internal wall-face. The N wall is missing a central portion (L c. 3m) which has been roughly repaired as this forms part of the boundary wall of the graveyard. There is a substantial crack at the SE corner. The interior contains 19th-century headstones and low uninscribed grave-markers. These are the remains of the medieval parish church of Kilmorgan (Timoney and Timoney 2000). A field system (SL034-081003-) lies to the W and a holy well (SL034-081006-) lies c. 200m to the N. The site of a mill (SL034-081005-) lies c. 50m to the 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

• SL034-081002 Graveyard
  Description

  A rectangular graveyard (c. 38m SE-NW; 22m NE-SW) enclosed by a stone wall. Access is through a piered entrance in the W wall; these may be the 'pair of pillars' erected here in 1820 (Timoney and Timoney 2000). The ruin of the medieval parish church of Kilmorgan (SL034-081001-) occupies the NE corner. Headstones date from the 18th to the 20th centuries and there are also a number of collapsed chest-tombs and three vaults including a large 19th-century mausoleum of the MacDonagh family. 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

• SL034-081003 Field system
  Description

  In rocky rough pasture, on a gentle W-facing slope, to W of Kilmorgan church and graveyard (SL034-081001-; SL034-081002-) and bounded by roads to N and E. A series of small irregular relict fields covering an area c. 200m x 200m, enclosed by earthen banks (Wth c. 2m; H c. 1m) faced with large limestone slabs. Some of the field boundaries follow the contour line along the slope creating divisions where marked changes in elevation occur. A small circular field adjacent to the road on the E side (diam. c. 30m) is enclosed by an earthen bank faced with large upright boulders. 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

• SL034-081005 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  A mill is indicated in this townland adjacent to the E townland and barony boundary on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map and in the general area of Kilmorgan church (SL034-081001-). The precise location of it is not known but it may be on or close to the location of a T-shaped mill which is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map immediately to S of the road leading W from Cams Bridge. There are no visible remains of any structure in the area which is densely covered with overgrowth. The remains of a probably associated rectangular structure (c. 3.6m NW-SE; 6m SW-NE) lie c. 10m to SW. This structure is defined by a hollow with a rising scarp on the SE and NE sides, the remains of the SW wall built against a rock-face and a short section of the NW wall (L 2.1m; H 2m; T 0.73m) with a central lintelled door (Wth 0.76m). The faint trace of an embanked millrace curves around the structure to S and E. Kilmorgan church (SL034-081001-) lies c. 50m to S. 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

• SL034-081006 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In rough poorly drained level pasture, c. 50m W of a stream. A shallow spring enclosed by a rough circular stone wall (diam. 1m; H 0.8m; T 0.4m). A church and graveyard (SL034-081001- and SL034-081002-) lie c. 200m to S. 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

• Mausoleum, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey stone mausoleum, built c. 1823. Rectangular plan. Pitched limestone roof. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed entrance opening on north gable containing carved plaque with inscription 'erected by James Macdonagh Merchant of Sligo after the death of his son on 31st December 1822', small rectangular openings to either side of doorway. Small square-headed opening to rear. Set within graveyard with church ruins and various cut-stone grave markers including some carved Celtic crosses, rubble stone boundary wall to roadside with segmental stone coping, roughly-dressed stone gate piers with plain stone caps, wrought-iron gate.

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 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 Kilmorgan.

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

Name

Kilmorgan · Cill Mhurchon

Area

889,676 m² (88.97 ha, 219.84 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmorgan, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Drumfin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumfin electoral division: 412 people in 151 households; 92% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cams, Cappagh, Carrownagark, Cloonlurg, Kingsbrook, Knockmoynagh

Placenames

Kilmorgan 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.