Kilturra

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilturra, from 129 m² to 82,927 m² (8.29 ha, 20.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Kilturra 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.

• 14 Jul 2026Conditional

  (a) to construct a story and a half extension to the side and a single story extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house (b) to make elevational changes to the existing dwelling house (c) increase existing gable wall height, roof height and roof design of existing dwelling house (d) upgrade existing vehicular entrance to site, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660284

• 15 Mar 2024Conditional

  construct a new dwelling along with installation of a new effluent treatment system with soil percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460076

• 5 Oct 2023Refused

  construct a new dwelling along with installation of a new effluent treatment system with soil percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360265

• 13 Jul 2023N/a

  construct a new dwelling along with installation of a new effluent treatment system with soil percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360176

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of (a) retention and completion of a dwelling house on site currently constructed to wall plate level, (b) installation of a new wastewater treatment system on site including a proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter, (c) erection of entrance walls and gates and a boundary wall together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 18509

• 4 Oct 2017Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, a car garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Extension of duration, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 12289

• 14 Mar 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house along with the provision of a proprietary effluent treatment system, soil polishing filter and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 1795

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 Kilturra.

Recorded monuments

• SL038-119001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin. A raised circular area (35.5m N-S) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse (Wth 6.3m; D 0.6m). The inner bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H c. 1m) is evident SE-WNW. Elsewhere the interior is defined by a scarp. The outer bank (Wth 4m; ext. H 1.6m) is evident SW-NNE. A field boundary skirts the fosse NE-S. The interior is raised c. 1.4m above the external ground level and poached by cattle. Quarrying is evident in the fosse at NE. A conjoined rath (SL038-119002-) lies immediately to SE on the opposite side of the field boundary. 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

• SL038-119002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin. An arc formed by a scarp NE-SSE and by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.7m) with an external fosse (Wth 4.2m; D 0.1m) SSE-SW encloses an area (dims. 25.3m N-S; 33m E-W) at the NW corner of a field (Pl. 36). This appears to be remains of a rath which has been truncated by the field boundaries at N and NW. There are no visible remains of the rath in the field to the N. A conjoined rath (SL038-119001-) lies on the opposite side of the field boundary at NW. 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

• SL038-120001 Barrow - stepped barrow
  Description

  In low-lying poorly drained pasture, on the W bank of a stream. A low circular platform (22.6m N-S; c. 21m E-W) defined by a low bank (Wth 1.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m) from which some stones protrude. Centrally placed on top of this platform is a smaller flat-topped platform (10.8m N-S; 11m E-W) defined by scarp (H 0.7m). On the S side of this and visible where the scarp has been eroded, is a quantity (c. 4m E-W) of heat-shattered stones in a dark soil matrix, possibly reused fulacht fia material. The barrow is slightly eroded by the adjacent stream N-NE. A holy well (SL038-120002-), cut into the perimeter of the barrow at SE, is surrounded by a cross-slab (SL038-120003-) and a millstone (SL038-120005-). (Farrelly and Keane 2002, 100-101) 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

• SL038-120002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In low-lying poorly drained pasture, on the W bank of a stream. A U-shaped hollow (1.6m NW-SE; 2m NE-SW), choked with grass and rushes, cut into the SE perimeter of a stepped barrow (SL038-120001-). The hollow no longer holds water though its base is damp. A few stones protruding randomly from the edge of the hollow may be remnants of stone lining. At SE a short channel, now engulfed with irises, links the well with the adjacent stream. Mentioned as 'the well of St. Attracta' by Wood-Martin (1892, 371) who also noted that 'the "patron" held on the 11th of August at the well was abolished about the year 1776' following a faction fight at which a man was killed. He also noted that being on the borders of the county it was largely attended by Mayo and Roscommon people (ibid.). In 1942-4 it was noted that 'pilgrimages to this well have ceased and it is not now visited by anyone' (ITA) though according to local information, Mass was said here in 1990. In addition to 'stations' being performed at the well, they were also performed around a circle of hawthorn trees that grew around the adjacent barrow (Anon. 1998, no. 26). Arranged around the perimeter of the well are the following items: (a) on the N side, a millstone (SL038-120005-) (b) to the E of the millstone, a rectangular slab (Wth 0.42m; H 0.63m; T 0.12m) on which is carved, in relief, a cross with splayed ends. According to Wood-Martin (1892, 371), this was said to have been 'erected at the close of the last century by ''Bishop Phillips'' '. (c) at SW, a cross-slab (SL038-120003-) (d) at W, a 19th-century cut limestone slab (Wth 0.61m; H 0.81m; T 0.1m) which according to its inscription was erected in 1821 by John Ormsby Cooke Esq. to commemorate 'the coming of his grandfather to reside here'. 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

• SL038-120003 Cross-inscribed pillar
  Description

  On the SW side of a holy well (SL038-120002-) and in the SE portion of a stepped barrow (SL038-120001-). An upright roughly shaped sandstone pillar (H 0.54m; Wth 0.25m; T 0.17m) with a simple cross enclosed in a ring incised on its NE face. The pillar narrows to 0.22m in width from slightly below its centre. The ring (Wth 0.25m; H 0.26m) encompasses the full width of the pillar, a double line forming the top and a single line the sides and base. The cross extends to the full width and height of the ring. Four evenly spaced linear incisions (H 0.04m) project from the upper edge of each arm of the cross. A tiny circular depression (diam. c. 15mm) flanks the shaft of the cross within the upper half of the ring. Crawford (1908, 182) has noted that this slab was brought to the Dublin Exhibition in 1907. (Wood-Martin 1892, 371; Herity, Kelly and Mattenberger 1997, 121; M. B. Timoney 1997, 4). 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

• SL038-121001 Church
  Description

  On flat ground, with bogland to NE, E and S; in the centre of Kilturra graveyard (SL038-121002-). Only fragmentary foundations of a rectangular church (c. 20m E-W; c. 5m N-S), built of sandstone, are evident in an area much disturbed by grave-plots. This was described in 1836 as 'the ruins of an old church (very small portion)' (OSL, 425); O'Rorke ([1889], vol. 2, 196) called it 'a mere heap of rubbish'. These are the remains of the parish church of Kilturra. 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

• SL038-121002 Graveyard
  Description

  A rectangular graveyard (51m E-W; 32m N-S), raised 0.5-1.2m above the external ground level. It contains a large number of uninscribed grave-markers and 19th- and 20th-century headstones. The earliest headstones have been recorded as 1771 (O'Rorke [1889], vol. 2, 196) and 1761 (Anon. 1892-4, 200). Fragmentary foundations of Kilturra parish church (SL038-121001-) are in the centre. There is a recent extension (81m E-W; 38.5m N-S) on the W side. Fragments of a cross-slab (SL038-121003-) and of a quernstone, which were found here, are in the NMI (pers. comm. M. B. Timoney). 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

• SL038-121003 Cross-slab
  Description

  In Kilturra graveyard (SL038-121002-). A fragment of a sandstone cross-slab (0.18m x 0.22m) was found in the graveyard; the grooves of the cross measured 10-15mm in width (pers. comm. M. B. Timoney). This fragment is now in the NMI (DU018-223----). 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). Revised by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 13 September 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilturra · Cill Tura

Area

1,713,826 m² (171.38 ha, 423.5 acres)

Civil parish

Kilturra, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Kilturra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilturra electoral division: 226 people in 76 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doobeg, Flughany (Co. Mayo), Knockalass, Knockrawer, Ogham, Quarryfield

Placenames

Kilturra 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.