Kilmurry Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Baltinglass, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cill Mhuirígh Íochtarach
- Area
- 132.6 ha
- 328 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 19,367 m² (1.94 ha, 4.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmurry Lower, from 1,483 m² to 216,967 m² (21.7 ha, 53.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Kilmurry Lower 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
16 Nov 2025Conditional
construction of a two-storey dwelling, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, a bored well, splayed entrance and all associated site development works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560927
13 Nov 2024Conditional
planning permission for the following: (a) modifications to existing dwelling house to include demolition of existing sun room to the front and small annex extension to the rear, (b) construction of new single storey extensions to side and rear of existing dwelling with the replacement of the existing roof / raising the pitch, (c) partial demolition and conversion of existing farm building to habitable space, farm building is located at the side of the existing dwelling. Proposal includes linking farm building to main dwelling, (d) decommissioning and backfilling existing sewage treatment system and replacing same with a new on-site domestic wastewater treatment system, (e) upgrading existing recessed vehicular entrance off main road, landscaping and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460705
26 Jul 2024Conditional
the construction of a 3.5m wide x 2.1m high (internal dimensions) with 250mm walls x 14m long precast concrete underpass to connect our lands and all associated pathways
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460457
13 Aug 2021Conditional
(a) modifications to existing dwelling house to include demolition of existing sun room space to the front and small annex extension to the rear (b) partial demolition and conversion of existing farm building to include new contemporary glazed link to main dwelling (c) connection to all existing site services, landscaping and all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211009
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 Kilmurry Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilmurry Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilmurry 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2769 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilmurry Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmurry Lower · Cill Mhuirígh Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,326,100 m² (132.61 ha, 327.69 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, Kilmurry Upper, Newtownsaunders, Slaney Park, Woodfield, Woodfieldglen
- Placenames
- Kilmurry 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.