Cully

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cully, from 76 m² to 356,819 m² (35.68 ha, 88.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Cully 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.

• 8 May 2017Conditional

  CLUBHOUSE IN SO FAR AS IT DIFFERS FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE NUMBER 02/1261. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO RETAIN UNAUTHORISED USE OF CLUBHOUSE AS A REGISTERED FIREARMS DEALERSHIP, UNAUTHORISED EXTENSIONS TO THE SHOOTING RANGES AND ASSOCIATED UNAUTHORISED STRUCTURES ON SITE INCLUDING SPORTING TRAP HOUSE, HIGH TOWER TRAP HOUSE, LOWER TOWER TRAP HOUSE, 1000 YARD BENCHREST SHED, PISTOL/RIFLE ZERO RANGE, FILLER ROOMS 1 & 2, STORE ROOMS A & B, FRACTION ROOM, 600 YARD TARGET PITS, 1,200 YARD TARGET PITS, GROUND BAFFLES, BACKSTOPS & MOUNDS AND METAL SHIPPING CONTAINER, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS.

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 17161

• 3 Apr 2017N/a

  CLUBHOUSE IN SO FAR AS IT DIFFERS FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE NUMBER 02/1261. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO RETAIN UNAUTHORISED USE OF CLUBHOUSE AS A REGISTERED FIREARMS DEALERSHIP, UNAUTHORISED EXTENSIONS TO THE SHOOTING RANGES AND ASSOCIATED UNAUTHORISED STRUCTURES ON SITE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 17115

• 29 Mar 2017Conditional

  REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANS FOR A HOUSE EXTENSION AND TREATMENT SYSTEM UNDER FILE REFERENCE PL2/14/176 TO INCLUDE REVISED PLANS FOR A STOREY AND A HALF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17104

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 Cully.

Recorded monuments

• OF024-001 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  Located on a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside. Reverend Shaw (1971, 24-5) recorded that a house or convent belonging to the Franciscan friars was established at Cully shortly after 1677. In this year, Charles O'Molloy, ruler of Firceall, wrote to the Pope requesting permission to establish a house for the Franciscans in the territory ruled by the O'Molloy's. In this letter he wrote that 'he begs your Holiness the faculty of founding, with the consent of the Local Ordinary (the Bishop of Meath), a convent of the Friars under the title of the Immaculate Conception near the already named sanctuary (Rahan), where they can reside and conserve orthodoxy in the three named baronies (Ballycowan, Ballyboy and Eglish)' (Shaw 1971, 25). According to Cogan (1867, vol. 2, 514) 'there was a Franciscan Friary here, which lasted the greater part of the last century. Many of these Fathers, in the penal times, discharged parochial duty in the neighbouring parishes'. Cogan (ibid., 514) states that this house was a 'home for the persecuted Franciscan friars in the last century. They had a farm of land attached to the Friary, and in this secluded place they observed the rules of their holy institute'. Ths farmland is depicted as the 'Convent Farm' on the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map. Reverend John Egan, the last friar of Cully who was the parish priest of Eglish died in 1807 (Shaw 1971, 25). Only the S gable survives of a 17th century house or Convent for Franciscan Friars known as the Cully Friars survives upstanding. The building or convent measures externally 4.9m E-W, with a wall thickness of 0.6m. This building is orientated on a N-S axis with only short returns of the E (L 0.5m; H varies from 1.15-2.5m] and W (L 2.5m; H 1.15-2.5m) walls where they join onto the S gable. There are no traces visible of the rest of the lateral E and E walls and nothing survives of the N gable. The walls are straight sided and are built with random limestone rubble that was covered with a lime-based rough cast finish. The S gable survives to full height (c. 4m) but is now ivy-clad making examination of the upper part of this wall impossible. The gable has a rectangular shaped chimney stack (L 1.3m) which protrudes 0.35m beyond the centre of the external face of the gable. This chimney stack served a fireplace in the centre of the ground floor of the S gable. The internal surface of this gable is impossible to inspect due to the presence of field clearance material that has been dumped up aginst the face of the gable. The embrasure of a small broken out ground floor window (Wth 0.4m; H 1.1m) is located in the S gable immediately to the E of the fireplace. A small broken out recessed area visible in the inner face of the gable immediately to the S of the fireplace could be the remains of a wall oven. However the presence of field clearance debris dumped up against the inner face of the gable prevents examination or precise identification of this feature. There is no longer any evidence of doorways in the E and W walls which are described in 1974 by the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society. These two sections of the lateral E and W walls no longer survive upstanding. In 1942 the ITA Survey (SMR File) recorded that this building consisted of a single gable along a with a small portion of the side walls and measured 18ft [5.5m] N-S by 12ft [3.65m] E-W. In 1974, the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society recorded that the 'old walls standing 2-3m high. This is more akin to an oratory in size. S wall 8m high. Doorways on W and E, 0.6m wide' (SMR file). A punch dressed stone (OF024-002----) dated 1641 which is now located in the local pub known as the Blue Ball, originally came from this building (Shaw 1971, 57) which suggests that this building was constructed before 1677. It is possible that an existing 17th century house was converted into a Convent for the Franciscan Friars after its foundation in 1677. 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 December 2012

• OF024-001001 Inscribed stone
  Description

  According to local kowledge this stone was removed from its original location at Cully (OF024-001----). It is now incorporated into the fire surround at the Blue Ball pub nearby (OF024-002----). The stone is inscribed with the date '1641' and is dressed with pocked stone tooling very similar to the doorway of Srah castle. The locals said that it came from Derrymore House a 19th century townland house which had acquired it from the 17th century building (OF024-001----) in the nearby townland of Cully, that is depicted as the 'Convent in Ruins' on the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 10 December 2012

• OF024-004001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Only the lower walls of a poorly preserved castle survive at Cully. This fortification was an O' Molloy castle (Shaw 1971, 57). Described by Shaw (1971, 57) as 'the slight remains of Cully castle are on the right-hand side of Cully lane, about 250 yards from the main road. A headstone in Lynally over Constantine Molloy, of Cully, states he died in 1683'. Armorial stone (OF024-004002-) was taken from the castle to America in the 1930's (OHAS file). Described in 1974 by the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society (OHAS) as the 'Original walls [of the castle] on the South and West about 1-2m high. The east wall is incorporated into a cottage (since destroyed). The original wall on the W side 12m long with extension N adding on another 3m' (OHAS file 1974). 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 December 2012

• OF024-004002 Armorial plaque
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Site of an O' Molloy castle (OF024-004001-) (Shaw Rev. 1971, 57). Armorial stone was taken from the castle to America in the 1930's (OHAS file) 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 Cully.

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 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 Cully.

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 Cully with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Cully · An Choillidh

Area

1,685,990 m² (168.6 ha, 416.62 acres)

Civil parish

Killoughy, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyboy

Electoral division

Killoughy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killoughy electoral division: 771 people in 261 households; 82% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfarrell, Coolanarney, Currygurry, Derrinvullig, Derrymore

Placenames

Cully 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.