# Kilmanaghan, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmanaghan, barony of Kilcoursey, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cill Mhancháin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,872,338 m² (187.23 ha, 462.66 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 27,603 m² (2.76 ha, 6.82 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmanaghan, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/kilmanaghan.md - Barony: Kilcoursey - Electoral division: Tinamuck, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 300 people lived in 95 households in the Tinamuck electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42288 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180839 - Centre: latitude 53.358157, longitude -7.654789 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmanaghan, from 182 m² to 233,004 m² (23.3 ha, 57.58 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 270927: 233,004 m² (23.3 ha, 57.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270927.md - Parcel 269485: 194,170 m² (19.42 ha, 47.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269485.md - Parcel 309610: 190,641 m² (19.06 ha, 47.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309610.md - Parcel 299387: 189,708 m² (18.97 ha, 46.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299387.md - Parcel 296099: 134,551 m² (13.46 ha, 33.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296099.md - Parcel 279531: 128,774 m² (12.88 ha, 31.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279531.md - Parcel 289178: 123,421 m² (12.34 ha, 30.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289178.md - Parcel 2604771: 110,931 m² (11.09 ha, 27.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2604771.md - Parcel 271933: 103,378 m² (10.34 ha, 25.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271933.md - Parcel 3348569: 101,433 m² (10.14 ha, 25.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3348569.md - Parcel 294917: 98,605 m² (9.86 ha, 24.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294917.md - Parcel 2477361: 44,132 m² (4.41 ha, 10.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2477361.md - Parcel 277358: 42,602 m² (4.26 ha, 10.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277358.md - Parcel 3788264: 32,801 m² (3.28 ha, 8.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3788264.md - Parcel 280088: 28,927 m² (2.89 ha, 7.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280088.md - Parcel 282531: 26,279 m² (2.63 ha, 6.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282531.md - Parcel 301560: 21,626 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301560.md - Parcel 273338: 17,311 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273338.md - Parcel 2472883: 17,003 m² (1.7 ha, 4.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2472883.md - Parcel 272432: 11,750 m² (1.18 ha, 2.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272432.md - Parcel 284141: 4,355 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284141.md - Parcel 287693: 2,708 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287693.md - Parcel 2497457: 2,525 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2497457.md - Parcel 301490: 2,159 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301490.md - Parcel 271892: 1,635 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/271892.md - Parcel 312558: 1,375 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/312558.md - Parcel 311366: 819 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/311366.md - Parcel 5280835: 677 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5280835.md - Parcel 2486350: 313 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2486350.md - Parcel 302913: 182 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/302913.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 18 May 2017, Offaly County Council 17174: Conditional. Retention. A SLATTED CATTLE SHED AND PERMISSION FOR A SEPARATE MULTIPLE-USE AGRICULTURE BUILDING WITH WASTE COLLECTION CHANNEL AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17174/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilmanaghan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF002-029: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF002-029----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF002-030----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF002-030001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF002-030002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF002-030003-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF002-030004-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilmanaghan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Kilmanaghan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1823, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1823.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilmanaghan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilmanaghan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilmanaghan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Kilmanaghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyboughlin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyboughlin.md - Bolart North: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bolart-north.md - Bolart South: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bolart-south.md - Gorteen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gorteen-180732.md - Kilfoylan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilfoylan.md - Shanballynakill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/shanballynakill.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilmanaghan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/kilmanaghan