Kilmurry

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmurry, from 94,247 m² (9.42 ha, 23.29 acres) to 300,391 m² (30.04 ha, 74.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Kilmurry 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Kilmurry in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Kilmurry.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilmurry.

Architectural heritage

• Fortgranite House, gate lodge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with part basement gate lodge to Fortgranite House, built c.1840. The lodge is a highly individual picturesque composition, being roughly square in plan but with a canted breakfront and a hipped roof with prominent overhang. The walls are largely finished in roughcast with granite quoins and dressings to the openings and a basement level of rubble. The roof is slated and has decorative fascia, boxed-in eaves and a rendered chimneystack. The entrance consists of a shallow ogee-headed timber door set in a splayed reveal with similar head. The window openings are flat-headed and filled with timber casement frames with pointed arch-headed lights. The gate lodge is set next to the roadside at the head of the western drive to Fortgranite House and is surrounded by a garden. To the west is a gate screen with low rendered quadrant walls and simple wrought-iron railings and carriage gates.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2810 (ZIP).

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 Kilmurry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Kilmurry · Cill Mhuirígh

Area

394,046 m² (39.4 ha, 97.37 acres)

Civil parish

Baltinglass, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Talbotstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Talbotstown electoral division: 456 people in 154 households; 85% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Englishtown, Fortgranite, Killalish Lower, Kilmurry Lower, Kilmurry Upper

Placenames

Kilmurry 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.