Kilmore
Townland in the civil parish of Toem, barony of Kilnamanagh Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Choill Mhór
- Area
- 260.2 ha
- 643 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 15,612 m² (1.56 ha, 3.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmore, from 97 m² to 529,083 m² (52.91 ha, 130.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Kilmore 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
26 May 2026Conditional
an as constructed animal shed with underground slatted slurry tank, and RETENTION PERMISSION for an as constructed unfinished stable building, and PERMISSION to complete the construction of the stables and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660509
16 Oct 2024Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling to replace an existing sub-standard dwelling, change of use of the existing substandard dwelling to out-house, improvements to existing site entrance, new wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460891
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: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
Recorded monuments
- TS045-017 Ringfort - rath
Description
On poorly drained SW-facing slope of rising ground in upland area with panoramic views from SE through S to W over counties Tipperary and Limerick. Field ditch runs across E quadrant of monument on a NNE-SSW axis. Field on both sides of possible ringfort has been recalimed with ringfort omitted from such work. Interior is covered in reeds and heather making detailed examination impossible. Monument appears to consist of a slightly raised circular area (diam. 31m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Top Wth 1.5m; base Wth 3m; ext. h 0.2m; int. H 0.3m) with traces of an external fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 0.2m) best visible from S to W only. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS051-044 Enclosure
Description
On a S-facing slope of poorly drained land in upland area. The terrain is very wet and marshy where the monument is marked on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. It is depicted as a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 11m) on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and not marked on the subsequent 1903 edition. Monument not accessible due to presence of large deep drain. A grove of trees is visible in the area where the monument is marked on the OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 15 June 2015
- TS051-055 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
On a S-facing slope in upland terrain, in reclaimed rough pasture. A circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 6m; overall diam. c. 14m), which appears to be defined by a fosse and outer bank, visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, 20 January 2020), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. There is an enclosure (TS051-044----) c. 300m to the S. See attached: TS051-055----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 18 November 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 7 January 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilmore.
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 high, 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 Kilmore.
- 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
No address of the register names Kilmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmore · An Choill Mhór
- Area
- 2,601,992 m² (260.2 ha, 642.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Toem, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Upper
- Electoral division
- Cappagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cappagh electoral division: 1,006 people in 371 households; 76% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnagassane, Druminda, Foildarg, Inchinsquillib, Lackenacoombe, Leugh, Moanvaun, Oldcastle, Parkroe
- Placenames
- Kilmore 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.