Killycushil

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killycushil, from 842 m² to 105,269 m² (10.53 ha, 26.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Killycushil 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Killycushil in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Killycushil.

Recorded monuments

• MO013-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a drumlin in the demesne of Rossmore Castle. This is a raised circular area that is now grass-covered (diam. 39m N-S; 37.5m E-W) but had been deployed as a tree-ring. It was defined by a scarp (at E: Wth 2.3m; H 1.5m; at W: H 2.15m), with traces of an external fosse or drain (Wth of base 1.1m; D 0.45m) E-SW. An entrance gap (Wth of top 5.4m) at SSE is now blocked. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 February 2018

Architectural heritage

• Camla House, gate lodge, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1870, having attic storey, gabled porch to front (north-east) elevation, canted bay window to north-west elevation, and gabled return with lean-to extension to rear. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof having cast-iron rainwater goods, rooflights, rendered chimneystacks, overhanging eaves, and timber bargeboards. Snecked squared sandstone rubble walls, with dressed quoins and tooled stone plinth course. Rendered walls to extension. Tooled sandstone crest with figure of rampant lion over entrance door. Square-headed window openings having tooled sandstone surrounds, and bipartite and tripartite leaded windows with timber mullions. Square-headed window openings to return, having render sills and replacement timber or uPVC windows. Bay window has round-headed leaded lights, painted tooled stone mullions and sill, stone apron. Tudor-arch entrance doorway, having painted tooled stone surround, and replacement timber door and overlight, opening onto stone paving having cast-iron boot-scraper. Square-headed door opening to south-east elevation with glazed timber door. Boundary hedge surrounding gate lodge, terminating in double-leaf steel vehicular gate flanked by square-plan rendered piers to east.

• Rossmore Castle, gates/railings/walls, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gateway, erected c.1870, at entrance to Rossmore Castle. Comprises pair of square-plan channelled dressed limestone piers to each side of verhicular entrance, with moulded cornices and stepped cappings, with moulded bases, and supporting decorative double-leaf cast-iron gate. Piers flanked by short sections of dressed snecked limestone walling with crenellated copings and having decorative wrought-iron scrolls to piers, flanked in turn by square-headed pedestrian entrances having tooled stone pilasters with moulded plinth bases supporting dressed stone lintel and pedimented cornice over, with decorative single-leaf cast-iron gates. Snecked roughly squared stone curvilinear walls to road.

• Rossmore Castle, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Demesne walls of Rossmore Castle, erected c.1830, having snecked tooled squared limestone walling with tooled sandstone copings.

• Rossmore Castle, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey L-plan former gate lodge, built c.1850, having lower gabled porch to front (south) elevation and twentieth-century extensions to north and east. Now in use as private residence. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, central red brick chimneystack, and replacement painted metal rainwater goods. Carved timber bargeboards and finials to gable ends and to porch. Exposed red brick walls of varying tones, with tooled limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings throughout, having limestone and sandstone block-and-start surrounds with chamfered reveals, and with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening to porch, having timber panelled door with chamfered limestone and sandstone block-and-start jambs and lintel. Gateway to west comprising square-plan cut limestone piers with moulded caps and double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gate, flanked by low coursed rubble limestone plinth wall.

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 Killycushil, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2303 (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 Killycushil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Killycushil · Coillidh Chaisiúir

Area

349,510 m² (34.95 ha, 86.37 acres)

Civil parish

Monaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Monaghan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

6,411 people lived in 2,320 households in the Monaghan Rural electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Camla, Clonavarn, Corlattan, Gortakeeghan, Killydrutan

Placenames

Killycushil 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.