Annaghmore and Annaghbeg

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Annaghmore and Annaghbeg, from 1,877 m² to 510,229 m² (51.02 ha, 126.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Annaghmore and Annaghbeg 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.

• 29 Jan 2020Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SLATTED SHED & STORAGE SHED (B) MODIFICATIONS OF EXISTING ENTRANCE (C) CONSTRUCTION OF A MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY & ANCILLARY ROOMS, DRAFTING & HANDLING FACILITIES, WAITING YARD & UNDERGROUND SLATTED TANK (D) ERECTION OF MEAL BIN, WATER STORAGE TANK (E) CONSTRUCTION OF LIVESTOCK CUBICLE FACILITY WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2017

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 Annaghmore and Annaghbeg.

Recorded monuments

• OF031-060 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential enclosure possible identified from aerial photographs (Air Corps 716/17). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF036-014001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located on top of natural rock outcrop in marshy area. Poorly preserved ruins of a rectangular tower with two corner towers surviving at NE and NW angles. Two circular musket loops survive on the S face of the NW tower with a flat headed window surviving on the NE tower. Overall the castle measures externally 12m from tower to tower with an average wall thickness of 0.8m. Impossible to examine due to dense overgrowth. Probable late medieval Tower house. Stronghold of the O' Molloy clan (Cooke 1875, 236; Loeber 1988 vol. 4, 13). Stronghold of the O' Molloy clan in the territory of Fir Chell (Cooke 1875, 236). Edward O'Molloy, son of Donal O'Molloy, 'late of Ilane Kiltobret' was made a ward of Richard Chichester in 1590 (Pey 2003, 354). In the sixteenth century this area was known as 'Annagh' and the castle would have been known as 'Annagh castle'. In 1621 the town and lands of 'Killananny and Annaghmore' were granted to Sampson Theobalds a servant to Oliver St John, Lord Deputy of Ireland (O'Brien and Sweetman 1997, 140). The Books of Survey and Distribution list Terence Coghlan as owner of these lands in 1641. By 1659 the Census lists John Dow as owner of the lands of 'Killtobired' (Pender 2002, 445). By the end of the 17th centurythe lands of Kiltubbrid were in the ownership of the Atkinson family (CDI Charles II, 598). They had probably received these lands in the early 17th centuryas part of the plantation of this region. In 1837 the OS described Kiltubbrid as 'an island in the centre of a swamp. On its north end it has 2 round towers, the only remains of an old castle. It is on the west side of the largest of the two Muddy Loughs' (Pey 2003, 356). A causeway running for approximately 100 metres connected the island castle to dry land. In 1852 the Drainage Commissioners cut a drainage channel through this causeway (Pey 2003, 355). Located on top of natural rock on Kiltubrid Island surrounded by wet marshy land. Poorly preserved ruins of a rectangular tower with two corner towers surviving at the north-east and north-west angles. Two circular musket loops survive on the south face of the north-west tower with a flat headed window surviving on the north-east tower. Possible wall footings of bawn wall (OF036-014002-) to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF036-014002 Bawn
  Description

  Stronghold of the O' Molloy clan in the territory of Fir Chell (Cooke 1875, 236). Edward O'Molloy, son of Donal O'Molloy, 'late of Ilane Kiltobret' was made a ward of Richard Chichester in 1590 (Pey 2003, 354). In the sixteenth century this area was known as 'Annagh' and the castle (OF036-014001-) would have been known as 'Annagh castle'. In 1621 the town and lands of 'Killananny and Annaghmore' were granted to Sampson Theobalds a servant to Oliver St John, Lord Deputy of Ireland (O'Brien and Sweetman 1997, 140). The Books of Survey and Distribution list Terence Coghlan as owner of these lands in 1641. By 1659 the Census lists John Dow as owner of the lands of 'Killtobired' (Pender 2002, 445). By the end of the 17th centurythe lands of Kiltubbrid were in the ownership of the Atkinson family (CDI Charles II, 598). They had probably received these lands in the early 17th centuryas part of the plantation of this region. In 1837 the OS described Kiltubbrid as 'an island in the centre of a swamp. On its north end it has 2 round towers, the only remains of an old castle. It is on the west side of the largest of the two Muddy Loughs' (Pey 2003, 356). A causeway running for approximately 100 metres connected the island castle to dry land. In 1852 the Drainage Commissioners cut a drainage channel through this causeway (Pey 2003, 355). Located on top of natural rock on Kiltubrid Island surrounded by wet marshy land. Poorly preserved ruins of a rectangular tower with two corner towers surviving at the north-east and north-west angles. Two circular musket loops survive on the south face of the north-west tower with a flat headed window surviving on the north-east tower. Possible wall footings of bawn wall to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF036-015 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted on 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Annaghmore and Annaghbeg.

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 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 Annaghmore and Annaghbeg.

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 Annaghmore and Annaghbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Annaghmore and Annaghbeg · Eanach Mór agus Eanach Beag

Area

4,676,383 m² (467.64 ha, 1,155.56 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Drumcullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcullen electoral division: 454 people in 152 households; 89% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolfin Glebe, Derrinboy, Kiltubbrid Island, Knockbarron, Laughil, Money, Pass

Placenames

Annaghmore and Annaghbeg 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.