Kilmanaghan

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmanaghan, from 182 m² to 233,004 m² (23.3 ha, 57.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kilmanaghan 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.

• 18 May 2017Conditional

  A SLATTED CATTLE SHED AND PERMISSION FOR A SEPARATE MULTIPLE-USE AGRICULTURE BUILDING WITH WASTE COLLECTION CHANNEL AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 17174

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 Kilmanaghan.

Recorded monuments

• OF002-029 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 557/6) shows faint outline of circular enclosure which according to Reynolds (1977) may be the site of a destroyed ringfort. 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

• OF002-030 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Located on high ground with extensive views of undulating countryside. Depicted as a rectangular church (OF002-030001-) standing in the centre of an oval-shaped shaped graveyard (OF002-030002-) on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. On this map the curve of the public road immediately to the E and S of the graveyard probably follows the line of a possible Early Christian enclosure. The graveyard is enclosed by a post-medieval stone wall from S through E to NE only and elsewhere by a low earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp with remains of an external fosse best visible on W side. This curving bank and external fosse visible at W may be the remains of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure. The townland and parish name of Kilmanaghan [Cill Mhancháin] meaning church of Manchán, may be a reference to a possible monastic foundation associated with Saint Manchán of Lemanaghan (OF015-004003-) whose feastday is celebrated on 24th January (Ó Riain 2011, 429). Early Christian cross-inscribed slab (OF002-030003-) along with possible bullaun stone (OF002-030004-) found here during a clean up of the graveyard in 1971 (Fanning and Ó hÉailidhe 1980, 13). 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 and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revision: 26 September 2014

• OF002-030001 Church
  Description

  By the middle of the 17th century the church of Kilmanaghan was in ruins. The terrier of the 1657 Down Survey map of Kilmanaghan parish records the existence of ‘the Ruined Church of Kilmanaghan’ (NLI MS 716). The present church ruins appear to date from the medieval period and may have been partially rebuilt when it became a Protestant church in the post-medieval period. In the late 19th century it was recorded that at Kilmanaghan, ‘the old church was uprooted and a Protestant edifice now deserted, [had been] erected on the site’ (Cogan 1867, 539). In 1801 this building was in ruins for it was described in this year as a ‘church in ruins’ (Coote 1801, 199). Located on high ground with extensive views of undulating countryside. Depicted as a rectangular church standing in the centre of an oval-shaped shaped graveyard (OF002-030002-) on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. On this map the curve of the public road immediately to the E and S of the graveyard probably follows the line of a possible Early Christian enclosure (OF002-030----). Present remains consist of an ivy-covered single cell retangular church (max. ext. dims. 9.5m N-S; 17.9m E-W; wall T 0.95m) built with intermittently coursed limestone rubble. Church is entered through broken out doorway at W end of S wall. The church interior is lit by two wide flat headed windows in the S wall with no dressed stones evident around the window openings. These window openings with their flat-headed openings appear to date from the 18th century and are set into widely splayed embrasures of medieval date. The E window located in the centre of the E gable also appears to have been rebuilt during the 18th century. High up in the centre of the W gable at first floor level are the remains of broken out window. No window openings are visible in the N wall of the church. The interior of the church contains several trees and briars making detailed examination impossible. The external faces of the S, E and N walls are covered in ivy. There is good evidence of internal render on the window embrasures of the S wall and on the inner face of the W gable of the church at ground floor level. The head of a twin light ogee headed window with spandrel decorated with vine leaf motif has been reused and inserted upside down as a quoin stone in the SE angle of the church. A glazing groove and iron bar socket hole is visible on the soffit of the window, a fragment of a sandstone quernstone has been inserted the wall on top of the window fragment. A possible bullaun stone (OF002-030004-) or water stoup and engraved fragment of a headstone has also been cemented into the E end of the external face of the S wall at the SE angle of the church. A late medieval carved stone depicting an owl beside vine leaf foliage which probably formed part of a window label stop has been inserted into the external face of the S wall of the church (SMR File 02/03/1977; Lyttleton 2008, 82-3). This stone now covered in ivy is located 0.75m W of the window located at W end of S wall of church. An Early Christian sandstone cross inscribed slab (OF002-030003-) now covered in ivy has been inserted into the centre of the S wall of the church and is located 0.8m E of window located in centre of S wall of church. The Early-Christian cross-slab was found during a clean up of the graveyard in 1971 (Fanning and Ó hÉailidhe 1980, 13). It is possible that at this time the other late medieval stone fragments were inserted into the church walls. The upstanding remains suggests that these ruins date from the medieval period and was partially rebuilt in the post-medieval period when the church was used as a Protestant place of worship. At this time the medieval windows of the church may have been rebuilt with wider external window openings inserted into earlier medieval window embrasures. The internal render of the church walls may also date from the post-medieval period. 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 and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revision: 30 September 2014

• OF002-030002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on rise of ground with extensive views of undulating countryside. Depicted as a rectangular church (OF002-030001-) standing in the centre of an oval-shaped shaped graveyard (dims. 45m N-S; 56m E-W) on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. On this map the curve of the public road immediately to the E and S of the graveyard probably follows the line of a possible Early Christian enclosure (OF002-030----) associated with Saint Manchan of Lemanaghan. The graveyard is enclosed by a stone wall (H 1.2m; T 0.4m) of post medieval date from S through W to NW only and elsewhere by a low earth and stone bank reduced to a scarp with remains of an external fosse at W. The graveyard is entered through an iron gateway located off centre to W in S wall of graveyard with remains of a stone stile visible in S wall located off centre to E. The graveyard contains memorials dating from the post-medieval period onwards. Early Christian cross-inscribed slab (OF002-03003-) two architectural fragments of a late medieval window, a quernstone, and a possible bullaun stone (OF002-030004-) found during a clean up of the graveyard in 1971 (Fanning and Ó hÉailidhe 1980, 13) have been built into SE angle and S wall of church. 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 and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revision: 30 September 2014

• OF002-030003 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  Located on high ground with extensive views of undulating countryside. Well preserved church ruins (OF002-030001-) standing in centre of an oval-shaped graveyard (OF002-030002-) which may follow the line of an Early Christian enclosure (OF002-030----). The townland and parish name of Kilmanaghan [Cill Mhancháin] meaning church of Manchán, may be a reference to a possible monastic foundation at this location which is associated with Saint Manchán of Lemanaghan (OF015-004003-). Ivy-covered Early Christian cross-inscribed slab (dims. 0.5m x 0.26m) consisting of an incised cross of arcs enclosed by an incised double line circle found during a clean up of the graveyard in 1971 and subsequently built into external face of S wall of church ruins (Fanning and Ó hÉailidhe 1980, 13). This carved slab is located 0.75m W of window located at E end of S wall of church. 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. See attached line drawing of cross-inscribed slab taken from Fanning and Ó hÉailidhe 1980. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revision: 30 September 2014

• OF002-030004 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Cemented onto small pedestal of cut stone blocks up against the external S face of SE angle of church ruins (OF002-030004-) in Kilmanaghan graveyard (OF002-030002-). An oval-shaped hollow (top diam. 0.31m; base diam. 0.11m; D 0.14m) is cut into the surface of a roughly shaped boulder (0.6m X 0.39m; H 0.26m). It is not clear whether this stone represents a bullaun stone of Early Christian date or if the stone may have been used as a water stoup in the medieval church ruins. The small size of the boulder along with the angular shape of the stone may suggest that it was used as a stoup in the medieval church. However the shape and smoothness of the oval-shaped depression would be suggestive of a bullaun stone classification. This boulder may have been found during the graveyard clean-up in the 1970s when an Early Christian cross-slab (OF002-030003-) was also uncovered. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 30 September 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1823 (ZIP).

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

Name

Kilmanaghan · Cill Mhancháin

Area

1,872,338 m² (187.23 ha, 462.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmanaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilcoursey

Electoral division

Tinamuck, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tinamuck electoral division: 300 people in 95 households; 94% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboughlin, Bolart North, Bolart South, Gorteen, Kilfoylan, Shanballynakill

Placenames

Kilmanaghan 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.