Kilscannell

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilscannell, from 62 m² to 307,599 m² (30.76 ha, 76.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilscannell 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.

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560456

• 8 Mar 2024Conditional

  (ref. no. of outline permission 20/1148) a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2481

• 22 Nov 2023Conditional

  (1) the demolition of the rear extension, (2) the change of the roof design on the existing dwelling, (3) an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, (4) the replacement of front porch with a window, installation of a new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23567

• 3 Nov 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23525

• 5 Apr 2023Refused

  existing garage and for permission to convert a portion of this garage into a car port

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 23196

• 17 Aug 2022Refused

  garage behind dwelling house

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22903

• 15 Oct 2021Conditional

  straw bedded calf shed, silage pit and apron. Permission for demolition of existing milking parlour and calf shed. Permission for construction of agricultural building to include milking parlour, ancillary rooms, livestock handling facilities and straw bedded livestock housing, agricultural building to include straw bedded livestock housing along with slatted slurry storage tanks, agricultural building to include slatted cubicle livestock housing over existing unroofed slurry tank, agricultural building to include the provision of a roof over existing slatted tank, unused silage pit and reroofing of existing lean-to cubicle housing and incorporating it into a new agricultural building for cubicle livestock housing with easi-feed passage, parlour washings/soiled water tank, erection of 1no. meal bin and 1no. water storage tank and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 211436

• 10 Nov 2020Conditional

  a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 201148

• 26 Oct 2018Conditional

  extension to rear of existing dwelling house, alteration to existing roof and dormer window to the front

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 181048

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 Kilscannell.

Recorded monuments

• LI028-110 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Ground in area of site is noticeably uneven. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-112 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Circular area (35m N-S; 33.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1.45m) with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.65m) WNW->E, and defined by scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 8m) E->WNW. Bank is covered by dense overgrowth and organic debris has been dumped against its outer face. Fosse is heavily poached by cattle. Field boundary overlies bank WNW->E. Interior, under pasture, slopes gently down to SE. According to report (McMahon & Rynne) bank levelled E->WNW to present condition by mechanical excavator in 1985. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-113 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On gentle rise, in undulating marshy pasture. Circular area (17.5m N-S; 17.5m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.75m) ESE->WSW, and defined by scarped edge (H 0.5m; Wth 1.5m) WSW->ESE. Gap (Wth 2.5m) in bank at S has been eroded by cattle accessing interior. External fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.2m) evident WSW->N. Southern third of level interior covered with bushes and trees, remainder under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-114001 Church
  Description

  Church of Ireland church built on site of medieval church of Kilscannell. Described in 1840 as the 'site of the ancient church is now occupied by a small modern Protestant one, and there is nothing of interest to the antiquarian in the church yard' (OSL,. 48). Westropp (1904-5, 400) recorded the following details on Kilscannell; ‘Killscanneil, 1201. Quit claim to Kilscanylle by Ade Palmifer, 1280 (B.B.L., lxix.). Nicholas O'Cathbuoyg, the unlawful occupant, ordered to assign the perpetual vicarage of Kylscanyll to Gilla-Seanayn Ohalphy, dispensed, though the son of a priest. It was void, because Ric. Burchs held it a year, without ordination, 1396 ("Cal. Papal Letters," iv., p. 530). Kilscanyll, 1302; Kystannyl, 1418; Kiskannell, ruinous, 1615 b. Site - The ruined I.C. church was built on the old site, 1822'. 19th century Church of Ireland church ruins described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a 'Freestanding Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built in 1822, comprising three-stage square-profile tower, flanked to north and south by single-storey single-bay porches, adjoining west elevation of gabled three-bay double-height nave' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; Reg. No.21902820) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 08 January 2019 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI028-114002 Graveyard
  Description

  19th century Church of Ireland church built on site of medieval church of Kilscannell which stands in N quadrant of a rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 36m N-S x 42m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate in centre of W wall. Described in 1840 as the 'site of the ancient church is now occupied by a small modern Protestant one, and there is nothing of interest to the antiquarian in the church yard' (OSL,. 48). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 08 January 2019 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI028-157 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-189 Burial
  Description

  Discovery of burials at Kilscannell were described by Cahill and Sikora (2011 vol. 2, 493-4) as following; 'In 1953 Mr Robert Cussen, Newcastlewest, Co. Limerick, reported that human remains had been found in the spring of that year in a sand quarry at Kilscannell, a few fields away from the ruins of Kilscannell church [LI028-114001-] and churchyard [LI028-114002-]. According to the report, the sandpit was an elevated portion of ground in the corner of a field. The coordinates given locate the site to the south-east of the church, and the first edition of the OS 6in. sheet shows a large quarry at this location. A number of skeletons were found about 0.3—0.4m below the sod. The bones were in an advanced state of decomposition and skulls of various sizes, from large to small, were noted. Over the following months more skeletons were uncovered. These are reported to have been aligned east/west, with the heads to the west and 'a few common stones arranged where the feet were, forming a sort of little wall'. Two objects, a fork and an iron object, were sent to the Museum for examination. G.A. Hayes-McCoy reported that the iron object was most likely an axehead or a halberd, and commented that a halberd seemed more likely. He also stated that 'halberds with blades of this shape were used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries', but the identification was tentative. Catríona McCloud described the fork as belonging to the series of 'ginger forks' that came into use in the late seventeenth century, continuing in use into the eighteenth century. It had a bone handle. The halberd blade was retained by the NMI. The report does not specify the relationship between these objects and the burials but it is clear that they were found at the site. Mr D.M. Davies examined one skull from the site, which he identified as the cranium and mandible of a woman aged 35-40 with the head keeled, a high bridge to the nose, a fine forehead and large orbits'. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 17 August 2012

Architectural heritage

• Kilscannell Church, church/chapel, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built in 1822, comprising three-stage square-profile tower, flanked to north and south by single-storey single-bay porches, adjoining west elevation of gabled three-bay double-height nave. Roof gone, cut limestone eaves course and finials remaining. Cast-iron hoppers. Roughly dressed coursed limestone walls with cut limestone quoins and tooled plinth course. Cut limestone crenellations to tower and side porches. Cut limestone finials to corners of tower. Cut limestone panel with surround to west elevation of tower. Pointed arch openings to south elevation of nave having cut limestone surrounds. Pointed arch opening to east elevation of nave with cut limestone surround and remains of carved stone tracery. Square-headed opening to west elevation of north porch having cut limestone sill, surround and cut stone hoodmoulding. Square-headed opening to west elevation of south porch with cut limestone sill, surround, tracery and hoodmoulding, and with cast-iron framed window. Pointed arch opening to second stage, west elevation of tower having carved tracery forming lancets and occulus, cut tooled limestone surround and hoodmoulding. Cast-iron lattice remaining. Paired round-headed openings to north, south and east elevations of third stage of tower, with tooled limestone surrounds and slate louvered vents. Four-centred arched opening to west elevation of tower having tooled limestone surround and tooled limestone hoodmoulding. Segmental-headed opening to south elevation of porch with cut limestone surround. Fireplace to interior of each porch having red brick voussoirs.

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).

• Kilscannell, Ardagh7 sales

Name

Kilscannell · Cill Scannail

Area

2,490,400 m² (249.04 ha, 615.39 acres)

Civil parish

Kilscannell, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Kilscannell, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyrobin, Clonagh, Coolanoran, Coolybrown, Liskilleen (o'Brien), Reens East, Reens West, Skehanagh

Placenames

Kilscannell on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.