Kiltylough
Kiltylough is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacallan, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Coillte Locha.
- Area
- 38.8 ha
- 96 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 20,691 m² (2.07 ha, 5.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kiltylough, from 3,249 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres) to 106,585 m² (10.66 ha, 26.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kiltylough 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
20 Mar 2024Conditional
development consisting of the following: a single storey extension to the rear and side of an existing split level part single/part 1.5 storey house to include a raised patio area and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2415
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 Kiltylough.
Recorded monuments
- SL034-073 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough pasture, on the SE-facing slope of a ridge overlooking Lough Bo. An overgrown arc (C 20m) of earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.2m) S-N with an external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.8m) along the NW arc. The bank and fosse formed the W arc of the rath (diam. c. 25m) indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. An E-W field boundary adjoins the bank at S and a N-S field boundary adjoins it at SW. 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 Kiltylough.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kiltylough, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kiltylough.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kiltylough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Kiltylough · Coillte Locha
- Area
- 388,395 m² (38.84 ha, 95.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacallan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirerrill
- Electoral division
- Killadoon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 276 people lived in 104 households in the Killadoon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghcarthy, Ballinphull, Coollemoneen, Doongelagh
- Placenames
- Kiltylough 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.