Kilcolgan More

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcolgan More, from 38 m² to 156,316 m² (15.63 ha, 38.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Kilcolgan More 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.

• 15 Aug 2026N/a

  construct a dwelling house and domestic garage, to include a septic tank and percolation area, proposed connection to mains water supply, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660431

• 22 Jul 2026Refused

  a dwelling house and domestic garage, to include a septic tank and percolation area, proposed bored well water supply, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660390

• 21 Jul 2026N/a

  construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage, to include a septic tank and percolation area, proposed bored well water supply, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660389

• 15 Jul 2026N/a

  a dwelling house and domestic garage, to include a septic tank and percolation area, proposed bored well water supply, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660379

• 25 Jun 2026Refused

  the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage, to include a septic tank and percolation area, proposed connection to mains water supply, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660335

• 17 Apr 2026Refused

  construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage, to include a septic tank and percolation area, proposed bored well water supply, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660200

• 3 May 2024Conditional

  (A) DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, (B) RETENTION PERMISSION OF ALTERATIONS TO BUILDING LINE OF DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE REFERENCED BY CONDITION 3 ON PLANNING REFERENCE NO. PL2/00/1134, (C) RETENTION PERMISSION OF FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2454

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 Kilcolgan More.

Recorded monuments

• OF015-011 House - fortified house
  Description

  Located on a slight rise in undulating countryside. Only the square bawn (OF015-011002-) with its SE and SW corner towers survive (ext. diam. 8.1m; wall T 0.85m), originally there were four towers. These towers are curious in their construction in that their interior is perfectly circular while they each have an external angle on their side facing away from the bawn. The towers were originally three storeys high with a doorway to each level accessed from an external wooden stairs inside the bawn. Fireplace at first floor level of tower, two centred door with punch dressed jambs and drafted margins. The other doors are all destroyed. At ground floor level there are two small rectangular windows one flanking either side of the destroyed doorway. The S wall of the bawn has a machicolation and rectangular chimney stack at first floor level, which may be the only surviving remains of the destroyed fortified house (approx. ext. dims. 32m E-W; 36m N-S). The machicolation may have protected an entrance to the house. The original entrance to the bawn was at the E end of the N wall which is now destroyed. Above the original entrance was a date stone 1649 (ITA Survey 1942; Anon 1874-5, 163) now removed. The fortified house was destroyed in the 1950's by the ESB for rubble to build the nearby power station. Photograph of castle in the architectural archive shows the L-plan fortified house two storeys high with crenellated wall walk, Jacobean chimney stacks with transomed and mullioned windows. Mac Coghlan castle which was visited by Rinuccini in 1648 on his way from Kilkenny to Galway (Fear Ceall 1958, 348-58). (Cooke 1875, 342; O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 85) 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

• OF015-011002 Bawn
  Description

  Located on a slight rise in undulating countryside. Only the square bawn (75m E-W; 70m N-S; wall T 1m) with its SE and SW corner towers survive (ext. diam. 8.1m; wall T 0.85m), originally there were four towers. These towers are curious in their construction in that their interior is perfectly circular while they each have an external angle on their side facing away from the bawn. The towers were originally three storeys high with a doorway to each level accessed from an external wooden stairs inside the bawn. Fireplace at first floor level of tower, two centred door with punch dressed jambs and drafted margins. The other doors are all destroyed. At ground floor level there are two small rectangular windows one flanking either side of the destroyed doorway. The S wall of the bawn has a machicolation and rectangular chimney stack at first floor level, which may be the only surviving remains of the destroyed fortified house (OF015-011001-). The machicolation may have protected an entrance to the house. The original entrance to the bawn was at the E end of the N wall which is now destroyed. Above the original entrance was a date stone 1649 (Davies 1942; JRSAI vol. 13, 1874-5, 163) now removed. The fortified house was destroyed in the 1950's by the ESB for rubble to build the nearby power station. Photograph of castle in the architectural archive shows the L-plan fortified house two storeys high with crenellated wall walk, Jacobean chimney stacks with transomed and mullioned windows. Mac Coghlan castle which was visited by Rinuccini in 1648 on his way from Kilkenny to Galway (JKAS 1958, 348-58). (Cooke 1875, 342; O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 85) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF015-011003 Well
  Description

  Circular sunken well (int. diam. 0.75m; D to water 3.6m; Max D 5m) with a dry stone lining located in the N quadrant of a 17th centurybawn (OF005-011002-). The well is located immediately S of the gable of a 19th century farmhouse and was adapted during this period when a water pump was inserted into the well. This well may be contemporary with the 17th centuryfortified house known as Kilcolgan Castle (OF015-011001-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF015-011004 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Halfway along the inner face of the E wall of the bawn of Kilcolgan castle there are several architectural limestone cut stone fragments belonging to the castle (OF015-011001-) which are lying on the ground at the butt of the bawn wall (OF015-011002-). Two of these fragments are the heads of two round headed single light windows of 17th centurydate. A third fragment appears to have come from the original fireplace and appears to be one of the arch stones of the fireplace with a convcave chamfer on the underside of the stone. A fourth fragment may have been a coping stone for a round shaped merlon from the battlements of the fortified house. A fifth and sixth fragment consist of a rectangular shaped cut limestone with a sunken panel one of which has a return at either end forming a possible greek fret pattern with adjoining cut stones. A seventh fragment consists of a limestone mullion of an unglazed window of 17th centurydate, this latter fragment lies on the ground in the modern outhouse built up against the inner face of the bawn wall on the E side of the castle, located off centre to N on the inner face of the E wall of the bawn. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF015-012 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map. 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

• OF015-495 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AM.23) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. The levelled enclosure was first recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1989. The cropmark enclosure is bisected by a modern field boundary. The cropmark of a second levelled enclosure (OF015-496---) is located 160m to the SW. Kilcolgan Castle (OF014-011----) is located 400m to the SE. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G. F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 10 December 2010

• OF015-496 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AM.23) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. The levelled enclosure was first recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1989. The cropmark enclosure is bisected by a modern field boundary. The cropmark of a second levelled enclosure (OF015-495---) is located 160m to the NE. Kilcolgan Castle (OF014-011----) is located 390m to the ESE. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G. F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 10 December 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_1741 (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 Kilcolgan More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Kilcolgan More · Cill Cholgan Mhór

Area

1,059,383 m² (105.94 ha, 261.78 acres)

Civil parish

Wheery or Killagally, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Ferbane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ferbane electoral division: 1,281 people in 484 households; 83% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydaly, Brehoge, Curraghwheery, Kilcolgan Beg, Rosfaraghan, Turraun

Placenames

Kilcolgan More 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.