Kilmanman

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmanman, from 738 m² to 114,297 m² (11.43 ha, 28.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilmanman 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 Jun 2023Conditional

  retain an existing farm supplies store and yard, splayed entrance and all associated site works. Previous Planning Ref. 20/162

  Retention · Laois County Council, 23182

• 24 Mar 2020Conditional

  retain an existing farm supplies store and yard, splayed entrance and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 20162

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 Kilmanman.

Recorded monuments

• LA002-002001 Church
  Description

  Situated in an elevated position on N side of valley. St Manman founded a church here in the seventh century. Church (19.8m E-W, 9m N-S; wall T 0.9m) built of roughly coursed rubble, mainly sandstone. Featureless N wall; two-light tracery sandstone window visible in E gable. The S wall is almost completely destroyed, no evidence of doorway but evidence of window at E end. Remains of bellcote on top of W gable; also a rectnagular window. Late medieval parish church, probably dating to the second half of the sixteenth century. Several fragments of dressed sandstone visible in surrounding subrectangular graveyard. Holy well (LA002-002003-) in middle of field to S of church. Church located in N quadrant of rectangular shaped graveyard (LA002-002004-). 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

• LA002-002003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated c. 90m SSW of church (LA002-002002-). This well was called after St Manmon, the patron of the parish. The date of the pattern day was forgotten by the early nineteenth century (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 71). Holy well situated in centre of poorly drained flat field now filled in located to S of Kilmanman church (LA002-002002-). 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

• LA002-002004 Graveyard
  Description

  Undivided nave and chancel church (LA002-002001-) located in N quadrant of rectangular shaped graveyard. Several fragments of dressed sandstone in graveyard. Holy well (LA002-002003-) in middle of field to S of graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA002-002005 Enclosure
  Description

  Circular cropmark to NW of church (LA002-002001-) visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, ASU 98- 99). No surface remains visible. Indicated as a circular enclosure on current edition of the OS 6-inch map to NW of church and graveyard but not indicated on first edition of the OS 6-inch map. 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

• LA002-002006 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Undivided nave and chancel church (LA002-002001-) in elevated position on N side of valley. Holy well (LA002-002003-) in middle of field to S of church. Church located in N quadrant of rectangular shaped graveyard (LA002-002004-). Curving road to N and NW of church may preserve the line of an early Christian enclosure around the monastery of Kilmanman. According to local tradition St. Manman was a seventh century saint who founded a monastery here (Crosdaile 1959, p. 11). 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 Kilmanman.

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

At the centre of the townland of Kilmanman, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1941 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kilmanman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Kilmanman · Cill Bhanbháin

Area

703,780 m² (70.38 ha, 173.91 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmanman, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Castlecuffe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

423 people lived in 136 households in the Castlecuffe electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolaboghlan, Coolnabanch, Derrintray Glebe, Derry, Larragan, Srahduff Glebe, Wranglestown

Placenames

Kilmanman 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.