Kilrush Upper

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilrush Upper, from 145 m² to 315,231 m² (31.52 ha, 77.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Kilrush Upper 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.

• 21 Apr 2021Conditional

  The development will consist of a new single storey extension to the west of the existing dwelling, replacement of the existing roof, amendments to the existing elevations, internal refurbishment works and new percolation area together with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21217

• 27 Aug 2019Conditional

  construction of a detached dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196243

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 Kilrush Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WM009-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low ridge in grassland. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s map 1808 map of County Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580 ). An oval shaped area (diam. 22m NNE-SSW; 32m ESE-WNW) enclosed by a low earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) and shallow external fosse (Wth 1.2m; ext. D 0.3m). The interior rises towards the centre where a rectangular house site (WM009-019001-) is visible. Possible causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at W. Traces of cultivation ridges run across the interior of the monument from WSW-ESE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 April 2017

• WM009-019001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a low ridge in grassland. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s map 1808 map of County Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580 ). Grass-covered wall footings of a rectangular house (dims. 5m N-S x 7m E-W) visible in centre of ringfort (WM009-019---). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 April 2017

• WM009-020 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on top of a ridge in undulating countryside. Ringfort (WM009-019----) 160m to SSE. Grass-covered wall footings (H 0.3m; Wth 0.3m) of a rectangular house site (dims. 9m NE-SW; 4m NW-SE) visible. This house site is associated with a field system. Possible house site visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 April 2017

• WM009-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural hillock in gently undulating grassland, with good views to NW & S. Ringfort (WM009-022----) 130m to SSW. The road which marks the townland boundary with Ballinlough is 90m to S. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 44m N-S) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank with slight remains of an external fosse. The bank has been disturbed in places. The interior is uneven, and rises towards the centre. There are three roughly circular depressions inside the bank on the N side. A rectangular house (WM009-021001-) is visible in the SW quadrant. See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 May 2017

• WM009-021001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a natural hillock surrounded by gently undulating grass-land, with good views to NW & S. Ringfort (WM009-022----) 130m to SSW. The road which marks the townland boundary with Ballinlough is 90m to S. The grass-covered wall footings of a rectangular house site (approx. int. dims. 5.4m N-S 13.4m E-W) with entrance gap at NNE (Wth 1.5m) is visible in the SW quadrant of a ringfort (WM009-021---). Possible second opposing entrance gap at SSW. A low bank extends N from the E end of the house site. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 May 2017

• WM009-045 Burial
  Description

  Situated on gently rising ground in a sheltered location. Human remains were discovered at this location during land reclamation works in 1992 in an area measuring 30m N-S by 70m E-W. A field report from that time reported that ‘no articulated skeletons were noted but the remains were definitely human. The burials were close to the surface’ (ASI Field Report). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 May 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Kilrush Upper.

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

Name

Kilrush Upper · Cill Rois Uachtarach

Area

1,825,697 m² (182.57 ha, 451.14 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

Ballinlig, Ballinlough, Cloran And Corcullentry, Dervotstown, Killua, Kilrush Lower, Newtown, Paristown

Placenames

Kilrush Upper 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.