Kilnamanagh

More than 2,000 parcels touch this townland. The map cannot draw that many.

• R2RES (Existing residential)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS (Open space, park)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• M3DC (District, neighbourhood centre)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1EE (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• M1REGEN (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilnamanagh.

Recorded monuments

• DU022-005001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  When last inspected in 1975, the bottom two storeys of a tower house had been incorporated into a farm building. The main features identified were a newel stairs lit by a slit ope and base batter on the exterior. The original studded wooden doorway is housed in the National Museum, Dublin (Ua Broin 1944, 194-5; Ball 1905, III, 120-21; Handcock 1991, 66-7, 2nd ed). This area has since been developed leaving no visible surface remains. Compiled by Geraldine Stout

• DU022-005002 Church
  Description

  The OS Letters describe the remains of a church which was formerly accessible from Kilnamanagh Castle (DU022-050001-) (Herity 2002, 31-2). This church was associated with a disused graveyard (DU022-005003-) which according to the Letters was enclosed by a wide and deep fosse which had a drawbridge (O'Flanagan 1927, 34). This is thought to be the site of the early monastery of Cell Manach Eascrach (Ua Broin 1944, 194-195; Ball 1905, 3, 20-1; Handcock 1991, 66-67, 2nd ed). The area has been developed leaving no visible surface remains. Compiled by Geraldine Stout

• DU022-005003 Graveyard
  Description

  The OS Letters (ed. O' Flanagan 1927, 63-4) describe the presence of a disused graveyard beside Kilnamanagh castle. It contained disturbed headstones and human remains which had been uncovered in the late 18th century. Further human remains were exposed in the early 1940's (1944, 195). There are no visible remains above ground. Compiled by Geraldine Stout

• DU022-005004 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Site of St. Kevin's Well in the parish of Tallaght was a natural spring well located beside Kilnamanagh Castle (DU022-005001-) (Ó Danachair 1958, 86). According to Ó Danachair; 'There is no memory of devotions; the water is used for domestic purposes only. The well is said to have sprung up at the place where Kathleen, St. Kevin's temptress, did penance' (ibid.). The holy well was described by Ua Broin (1944, 195) as follows; 'Nearly 60 years ago a mound was pointed out to the present writer, between the shed and the passage to St. Kevin's Well. Saint Kevin's well beside the castle commemorates that saint's sojourn here for early training. Another well quite near, N. 21.2 cms., W. 2.5 cms., O.S. 22 is marked Holy Well on map 30 but tradition does not claim that it was a holy well'. This well was located SW of Kilnamanagh Castle and accessed from steps. It was still present in 1975. There has been considerable development in the area since with the construction of housing over this ecclesiastical site (DU022-005005-) leaving no surface remains visible of St. Kevin's Well. Folklore collected from St Mary's School, Tallaght recorded the following details about St Kevin's Well; 'It was in Kilnamanagh that St Kevin spent his novitiate, and it was while reading his "office" that "Kathleen" first saw him. She returned again and again to see him, and in the end tried to speak to him. But Kevin would have none of her and taking a handful of nettles struck her in the face telling her to be gone. Immediately Kathleen fell on her knees begging his forgiveness, and on the spot a well sprang up. This well is still known as St. Kevin's Well, though the water has been changed, through a shore, to the other side of the castle' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0795, Page 039; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4428219/4386863/4456593). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 20 April 2023

• DU022-005005 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  The church at Kilnamanagh was associated with a disused graveyard (DU022-005003-) which according to the Letters was enclosed by a wide and deep fosse which had a drawbridge (ed. O'Flanagan 1927, 34). This is thought to be the site of the early monastery of Cell Manach Eascrach (Ua Broin 1944, 194-195; Ball 1905, 3, 20-1; Handcock 1991, 66-67, 2nd ed). The E side of this enclosure is indicated on the OS 6 inch map.There are no visible remains above ground. Compiled by Geraldine Stout

• DU022-005008 Bawn
  Description

  The OS Letters describe a wall 'built on the ruins of an ancient wall around Kilnamanagh castle' (ed. O'Flanagan ed. 1927, 33(63). According to the report it was of 'very rude and rough appearance'; 'the stones (were) square, oblong lime quarry stones, lying irregularly without any old mortar'. This may have been the remains of a bawn. There are no visible remains above ground. Compiled by Geraldine Stout

• DU022-005009 Earthwork
  Description

  The OS Letters describe a 'wide and deep fosse' which enclosed Kilnamanagh castle and a drawbridge (ed. O'Flanagan ed. 1927, 34(63)). Compiled by Geraldine Stout

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Kilnamanagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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_3123 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kilnamanagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Kilnamanagh · Cill na Manach

Area

2,515,052 m² (251.51 ha, 621.48 acres)

Civil parish

Tallaght, and its townlands

Barony

Uppercross

Electoral division

Tallaght-Kilnamanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,394 people lived in 1,552 households in the Tallaght-Kilnamanagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 6% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymount Great, Ballymount Little, Cookstown, Garranstown or Kingswood, Greenhills, Limekilnfarm, Robinhood, Tallaght, Tymon North

Placenames

Kilnamanagh 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.