Cullow

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cullow, from 2,037 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 27,185 m² (2.72 ha, 6.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Cullow 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 Cullow 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 Cullow.

Recorded monuments

• CV032-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Small almost oval-shaped enclosure with its long axis aligned N-S, marked on the OS 1913 ed. but not on previous eds. Site is densely overgrown with vegetation rendering inspection impossible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV032-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. dims.29.8m E-W; 29m N-S) enclosed by a narrow earthen bank faced externally with drystone masonry and incorporated into the field boundary from W-NW-N. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV032-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 47m NNE-SSW; c. 35m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. Densely overgrown with vegetation. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic-Revival gable-fronted church, built 1888, having eight-bay nave with side aisles, unfinished single-stage tower attached to north-west with engaged semi-octagonal stair turret, sacristy to south-east. Undergoing restoration in 2012. Pitched slate roof with trefoil clay ridge cresting, barge stones to gables with corbelled kneelers, decorative cross to apex of both main gables, cast-iron rainwater goods. Lean-to roof to aisles, pyramid slate roof to tower. Coursed rock-faced stone walls, stepped buttresses to end of nave walls at gables, angle buttresses to corners of side aisles and tower with buttresses to side bays. Cut-stone dressing to triple lancets to front gable with trefoil heads and continuous sill, pointed relieving arch over. Double entrance portal under pointed relieving arch with hood profile comprising pair of dressed pointed arch doorways with decorative circular motif above. Entrance flanked by small lancets, circular reliefs above with shield inlays. Dressed lancets to end of aisles in main gable. Side doors in base of tower and to first bay to east of aisle. Pointed arch windows with hoods to clerestorey and to aisle elevationss, confessional outcrop between butresses midway to aisles with three small windows. Pointed stone tracery window to south gable with triple trefoil headed lights and quatrefoils above. Bevelled plinth to sacristy, shouldered lintels to south elevation, double lancets to east gable with circular recess and inlay shield above. Stained glass windows and timber sheeted doors. Nave interior with exposed timber truss roof structure having arched braces, round carved queen-posts supporting lateral arcades beneath purlins, timber uprights and arched supports below tie beams rising from decorative stone corbels in clerestorey walls. Timber sheeting to ceiling with flat upper section. Compartmented plaster barrel vault in trefoil profile above chancel bays with arched trusses having trefoil-punched spandrels and turned tie beam. King-post trusses in side aisles. Nave arcade having profiled pointed arches on marble columns having capitals with vegetal decoration resting on stone barrel bases with octagonal footings. Gallery above entrance and ancillary spaces with decorative timber balustrade resting on timber corner supports on stone corbels. Cantilevered timber stairs to gallery in double height space west of entrance. Timber sheeted ceilings to ancillary spaces and sacristy. Internal doors of timber, panelled doors to confessionals doors with glazing to entrance and sacristy. Stone steps to altar area, stone font west of altar, decorative stone reredos and altar. Square-profile ashlar gate piers flanking double cast-iron entrance gates, having stepped pyramidal copings with crosses to apexes and bevelled plinths. Further stone piers flanking entrances with cast-iron gates to both sides of main entrance. Serpentine wing of cast-iron railings on stone plinth forming setback to either side of gates. Recent rendered boundary walls and metal gates setback from road west of main gates. Cast-iron belfry west of entrance. Graveyard further to west.

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 5 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 Cullow.

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 Cullow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Cullow · An Colbha

Area

444,176 m² (44.42 ha, 109.76 acres)

Civil parish

Crosserlough, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Kilnaleck, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilnaleck electoral division: 1,216 people in 442 households; 69% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagegna, Carrickacroy, Crosserlough, Duffcastle, Latnadronagh, Rockfield

Placenames

Cullow 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.