Cullenagh

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cullenagh, from 164 m² to 967,363 m² (96.74 ha, 239.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 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 Cullenagh 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.

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) retain single storey dwelling house (2) All associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560887

• 19 Dec 2025N/a

  (1) retain single storey dwelling house, (2) All associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560877

• 10 Dec 2025Conditional

  construct a slatted livestock shed including an underground slurry storage tank and all ancillary associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560839

• 14 Nov 2025N/a

  Construct a slatted livestock shed including an underground slurry storage tank and all ancillary associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560751

• 13 Nov 2025N/a

  The construction of a slatted livestock shed including an underground slurry storage tank and all ancillary associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560744

• 19 Mar 2024Conditional

  carry out development which will consist of 3 replacement glamping units consisting of : A: Replacement of 1 x existing 6 person bell tent with 1 x 3 bedroom glamping unit (sleeps 6 persons) B: Replacement of 2 x existing 4 person bell tents with 2 x 2 bedroom glamping units (each to sleep 4 persons). Also planning permission is sought for an extension to existing communal kitchen to provide for multifunction activity space, and permission for new independent entrance to glamping facility and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460143

• 11 Mar 2024N/a

  The development will consist of 3 replacement glamping units consisting of : A: Replacement of 1 x existing 6 person bell tent with 1 x 3 bedroom glamping unit (sleeps 6 persons) B: Replacement of 2 x existing 4 person bell tents with 2 x 2 bedroom glamping units (each to sleep 4 persons). Also planning permission is sought for an extension to existing communal kitchen to provide for multifunction activity space, and permission for new independent entrance to glamping facility and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460124

• 8 Mar 2024N/a

  replace 3 glamping units consisting of : A: Replace 1 x existing 6 person bell tent with 1 x 3 bedroom glamping unit (sleeps 6 persons) B: Replace 2 x existing 4 person bell tents with 2 x 2 bedroom glamping units (each to sleep 4 persons). Also permission for an extension to existing communal kitchen to provide for multifunction activity space, and permission for new independent entrance to glamping facility and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460120

• 17 Jun 2022Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22369

• 30 May 2022N/a

  construct dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22333

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21779

• 18 Jun 2021Conditional

  construct a bungalow, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21450

• 18 Feb 2021Conditional

  construct proposed milking parlour, dairy, holding shed, passage way, collecting yard / slurry tank, cubical shed, calfing shed, machinery storage and dry bedding shed and to retain existing calfing shed, demolish existing cubical shed and milking parlour and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2199

• 17 Dec 2020N/a

  construct proposed milking parlour, dairy, holding shed, passage way, collecting yard / slurry tank, cubical shed, calfing shed, machinery storage and dry bedding shed and to retain existing calfing shed, demolish existing cubical shed and milking parlour and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20681

• 4 Jul 2018Conditional

  retain (a) existing self-catering glamping site, comprising of three canvas bell tents, two wood lodges and a shepherd's hut, a communal kitchen/dining area with BBQ deck, a campfire area, and a three unit bathroom block, (b) existing stable outbuilding with self contained one bedroom living unit, (c) existing relocated enlarged garage/outbuilding), existing pizza hut/outbuilding, (e) existing relocated position of family houseand, septic tank/percolation area. Also PLANNING PERMISSION for six new grass roofed glamping accommodations, new camper's kitchen and toilet block building, carparking, landscaping, new septic tank and percolation area for the complete glamping facilities, and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 18390

• 21 Jun 2018N/a

  retain (a) existing self-catering glamping site, comprising of three canvas bell tents, two wood lodges and a shepherd's hut, a communal kitchen/dining area with BBQ deck, a campfire area, and a three unit bathroom block, (b) existing stable outbuilding with self contained one bedroom living unit, (c) existing relocated enlarged garage/outbuilding), existing pizza hut/outbuilding, (e) existing relocated position of family house, entrance and domestic septic tank/percolation area. Also PLANNING PERMISSION for six new grass roofed glamping accommodations, new camper's kitchen and toilet block building, carparking, landscaping, new septic tank and percolation area for the complete glamping facilities, and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 18365

• 28 Jul 2017Conditional

  retain the as-constructed two-storey house and existing entrance

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17405

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 Cullenagh.

Recorded monuments

• LA018-026 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps; a subcircular enclosure (max. diam. c. 60m NE-SW). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA018-029 Enclosure
  Description

  A subciruclar enclosure (max. diam. c. 40m E-W) marked on the 1909 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA018-030001 Church
  Description

  Marked Cullenagh Abbey on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Remains of a nave and chancel church (L c. 18.7m, Wth c. 9.4m; wall T c. 0.9m) built of rubble limestone roughly coursed. Doorway in E end of N wall, and evidence of blocked-up opes in N and S walls. No other visible features. Kilfailan church is not indicated on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map but is indicated as being in ruins on the last edition of the OS 6-inch map. Local tradition that the cattle shed to the rear of a 19th century farmhouse and seventeenth century fortified house (LA018-039) are the remains of Kilfailan Church. The upstanding cattle shed is not of medieval date and its walls only measure 0.6m in maximum thickness. There are brick arches and slit windows and the wall construction is all indicative of the 18th/19th century in date. As no church is marked in this area on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map and the building appears to post-date the seventeenth century. This building may have been incorrectly identified as a church via the local tradition or this tradition refers to an 18th century chapel or penal chapel that was abandoned and converted into a cattle shed in the 19th century. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA018-030002 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Not marked on the 1838 or 1909 eds OS 6-inch maps. In undulating countryside. Reference to a road in this area (Feehan 1983, 457). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA018-039 House - fortified house
  Description

  In 1646 Owen Roe O'Neill marched from Ballyshean in Laois where he stayed four nights to Coilleadh a Laois and Caislean na Cuilenthoi (Cullenagh). The general treated the captain of that place very leniently and placed a garrison of his own there. Cullenagh castle at the time was probably in the hands of the Barringtons (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1981, 195). On the slope of the Black Mountain, the Barringtons, who had acquired a large estate in Cullenagh barony, built a castellated mansion the remains of which are still to be seen (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 187). Early to mid seventeenth century fortified house (int. Dims. 6.15m E-W x 1.7m N-S; wall T 0.95-1.2m) situated in the garden of a nineteenth century house on the upper reaches of a gentle E facing slope affording extensive views of the countryside from NNE to E to S. Clear view of Dysart Hill to the NE, Gallows Hill to the E and Fossy Hill to the SE. Cullenagh Mountain rises up to the SW of the site. House comprises of the ivy-clad N gable and rudimentary remains of the N ends of the E and W walls of a four storey fortified house built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with larger stones used for the quoins. The gable is surmounted by a tall chimney stack, with a broad external chimney projection (Wth 3.45m; D 0.8m) running the length and greater part of the width of the gable. At first floor level, flanking either side of the chimney projection there are two finely executed cut and dressed limestone rectangular single-light windows with glazing bar holes and beneath each window there are small rectangular opeinings which may have acted as gun loops. A slop-stone occurs at ground floor level, and internally there are three staggered fireplaces at first, second and third floor levels. The house was protected by a bawn wall (LA018-039001-) (wall T 1m) which extended to the S and was equipped with at least two and perhaps originally four angle towers (int. dims. 2.5m x 1.9m ; wall T 0.6m). Of these defensive features, only modified portions of the S wall, scanty remains of the S end of the E wall of the bawn, the E half of the SE corner tower and two rectangular towers which appear to be later constructions on the site of the original SW corner tower, remain upstanding. Portions of the W and S walls of a small featureless building lie outside the bawn area to the SE. The SE corner tower has two small rectangular opes looking N and E and a line of flat coping stones at the roofline. Remains of a stone vault over the ground floor still survives intact. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA018-039001 Bawn
  Description

  In 1646 Owen Roe O'Neill marched from Ballyshean in Laois where he stayed four nights to Coilleadh a Laois and Caislean na Cuilenthoi (Cullenagh). The general treated the captain of that place very leniently and placed a garrison of his own there. Cullenagh castle at the time was probably in the hands of the Barringtons (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1981, 195). On the slope of the Black Mountain, the Barringtons, who had acquired a large estate in Cullenagh barony, built a castellated mansion the remains of which are still to be seen (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 187). Early to mid seventeenth century fortified house (LA018-039) situated in the garden of a 19th century house on the upper reaches of a gentle E facing slope affording extensive views of the countryside from NNE to E to S. Clear view of Dysart Hill to the NE, Gallows Hill to the E and Fossy Hill to the SE. Cullenagh Mountain rises up to the SW of the site. House comprises of the ivy-clad N gable and rudimentary remains of the N ends of the E and W walls of a four storey fortified house built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with larger stones used for the quoins. The house was protected by a bawn wall (Wall T 1m) which extended to the S and was equipped with at least two and perhaps originally four angle towers (int. dims. 2.5m x 1.9m ; wall T 0.6m). Of these defensive features, only modified portions of the S wall, scanty remains of the S end of the E wall of the bawn, the E half of the SE corner tower and two rectangular towers which appear to be later constructions on the site of the original SW corner tower, remain upstanding. Portions of the W and S walls of a small featureless building lie outside the bawn area to the SE. The SE corner tower has two small rectangular opes looking N and E and a line of flat coping stones at the roofline. Remains of a stone vault over the ground floor still survives intact. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, 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 Cullenagh.

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.

• Cullenagh, Portlaoise5 sales

Name

Cullenagh · Cuileannach

Area

6,197,159 m² (619.72 ha, 1,531.35 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyroan, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Cullenagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cullenagh electoral division: 151 people in 50 households; 90% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinaclogh Upper, Ballyheyland, Baunree, Cashel, Cloncullane, Crubeen, Dooary, Kilvahan, Pass, Raheenduff Big

Placenames

Cullenagh 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.