Kilrush Lower

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilrush Lower, from 128 m² to 200,691 m² (20.07 ha, 49.59 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Clonmellon, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 May 2025Conditional

  Retention of Two Existing Dormer Roof Windows and One Velux Roof Window on the Front of an Existing Dwelling at this address ( Granted Under Planning Ref: 04/2353)

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560210

• 28 Mar 2025N/a

  Retention of Two Existing Dormer Roof Windows and One Velux Roof Window on the Front of an Existing Dwelling at this address ( Granted Under Planning Ref::042327)

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2560142

• 10 Feb 2021Conditional

  to construct Domestic Garage, Two Storey Dwelling House, secondary waste water treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2156

• 13 Mar 2020Conditional

  Construct a cattle housing unit with underground slurry storage tank, covered dungstead and all site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206050

• 26 Aug 2019Conditional

  construction of a single storey rear extension incorporating kitchen/living/dining & utility, internal modifications & renovations to existing dwelling, decommission existing septic tank & install a proprietary wastewater treatment system & all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196241

• 7 Dec 2018Conditional

  retention of a single storey detached domestic garage

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186368

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 Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Shesk 000556

Recorded monuments

• WM009-005 Crannog
  Description

  Described by O'Sullivan (2004, 114-5) as following; 'Located on the southwest shore of a small lake (Newtown Lough) on the modern Meath/Westmeath border. The site is located on the end of a small promontory of marshy land extending out into the water. The crannóg is a low, circular mound (dims. 19m N-S x 29m E-W; H 1-2m) of small stones situated at the water’s edge on the sandy shore of Newtown Lough. It has a level, grassy upper surface and is scarped on the shoreline side, over 1-2m, on north, east and west sides. There are no wooden posts visible, but there appears to be a slight kerb of stones along the north side'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Aidan O'Sullivan. Date of upload: 10 March 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Kilrush Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Kilrush Lower · Cill Rois Íochtarach

Area

1,825,451 m² (182.55 ha, 451.08 acres)

Civil parish

Killua, and its townlands

Barony

Delvin

Electoral division

Killua, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killua electoral division: 1,143 people in 385 households; 81% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonmellon, Galboystown (Co. Meath), Killua, Kilrush Upper, Newtown

Placenames

Kilrush Lower 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.