Cullies

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cullies, from 58 m² to 170,013 m² (17 ha, 42.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 61 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Cavan Town Local Area Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 60 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1General Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Cavan Town Local Area Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Cavan Town Local Area Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Public Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Cavan Town Local Area Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Amenity and Open Space (Open space, park)
  Cavan Town Local Area Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3Neighbourhood Centre (District, neighbourhood centre)
  Cavan Town Local Area Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Cullies 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 Cullies.

Recorded monuments

• CV020-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank. Situated immediately ESE of St Patrick's College and just S of the summit of a drumlin hill. From W-N-E a modern drain has been dug at the external foot of bank. Original entrance not recognisable. Several modern paths traverse the internal area which has been planted largely with beech and pine. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV020-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 29.6m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse which survives only from S-WSW. Elsewhere it has been infilled. Wide break in bank with accompanying causeway at NE may represent original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV020-056 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Davies (ITA Survey 1942) recorded a subcircular area (int. diam. 23.7m) bounded by a low earthen bank and a shallow fosse at W and NW and elsewhere by a steep scarp. He described a break in the bank and fosse at W which he speculated was probably the original entrance. Situated adjacent to a stream in wet infertile ground. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's Catholic College, gate lodge, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey red-brick gate lodge, built c.1880, with advanced gable-fronted end bay, slated lean-to timber canopy over door in centre bay, single-bay gable front facing road. Recent extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, decorative oversailing bargeboards in truss form to each gable, red brick chimneystack with brick cornice, cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls in Flemish bond with chamfered red-brick plinth. Moulded segmental-headed openings with chamfer-stop reveals, cut stone sills and historic four-over-four sash windows with ogee horns. Moulded brick string courses at impost level and first floor sill level. Replacement panelled timber door with plain glazed overlight. Located beside the main entrance of St. Patrick College inside ornate cast-iron railings forming gate screen. Railings on low plinth wall with square-profile cast-iron piers and responding end piers of cut stone. Gate piers surmounted by diagonally placed wrought-iron lamp standards and supporting round-arched wrought-iron overthrow with "ST PATRICKS COLLEGE" in metal letters over double-leaf cast-iron gates of same design as railings, now adapted to slide behind piers.

• Saint Patrick's Catholic College, monastery, school, 1865–1875 · National interest
  Description

  Detached Gothic Revival H-plan twenty-three-bay three-storey over basement former seminary college, built c.1870, having central gabled breakfront, square-plan four-storey towers at intersection of gable-fronted three-storey advanced end bays of flanking wings. Eight-bay east wing and ten-bay west wing enclosing rear courtyard with symmetrically placed corbelled gablets surmounted by chimneystack. Symmetrical rear elevation with central projecting bay. Four-bay church with full-height bowed apse attached to end of east block having five-bay lean-to aisle with gabled sacristy set at right angle on courtyard side. Seventeen-bay three-storey extension of c.1940 to rear of west block. Steeply pitched slate roof with eaves supported by moulded stone corbels, tall red brick chimneystacks with string courses and cornice details regularly spaced along ridge, circular- and square-profile cast-iron rainwater goods. Pyramidal slate roofs to towers with cornices and stepped parapets. Gables of central and terminating bay with cut stone fractables and surmounted by finials. Squared sandstone walls with chamfered limestone plinth and limestone courses above sills and beneath arches. Central gabled breakfront with clock to gable apex over stepped moulded course over triple slit openings and heraldic angel to kneelers. Two-storey red-brick arched recess having tripartite arrangement of pointed arch windows at second floor flanking statue niche, shielded quatrefoils to spandrel panels over triple square-headed first floor windows. Moulded cut sandstone surround to pointed arch main entrance door flanked by half side-lights, having pointed arch timber door with raised panels. Segmental-headed window openings to ground and first floor, shoulder-arched openings to second floor of main block. Pointed arch windows to second storey of terminating gables with hood mouldings to central windows and multifoils to apexes. Two-over-two timber sash windows with fixed overlights to segmental-headed windows. Dressed red-brick surrounds to segmental-headed second-storey opening and pointed arch third and fourth storey opening of towers, openings with sandstone tracery comprising of triple pointed arches with quatrefoil motifs to third storey and double round-headed arches with cinquefoil motif to fourth storey. Church with chamfered sandstone window surrounds with alternating cut limestone and sandstone voussoirs, pointed arch window opening to east elevation, trefoil-headed openings to apse and paired shoulder-arched openings to side aisle with multifoil openings to nave, multiple pane stained-glass to windows. Square-headed windows to extension with triple window arrangement to stair wells and flat canopies to entrances.

• Saint Patrick's Catholic College, outbuilding, 1720–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Range of L-plan multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings, built c.1740, arranged around central courtyard, having gabled half-dormers with loft doors positioned off-centre to both ranges. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to west of eastern block. Now disused. Slate roof having hipped end to south and gable end to east, rendered chimneystack to gable, sections of cast-iron rain water goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Squared-headed door openings and square-headed window openings beneath eaves to west side of north range. Wide elliptical-arched and square-headed machinery openings to east side of north range and east range. Sheeted timber doors, half-glazed panelled door to west bay, and fixed multiple pane windows. Later external metal steps to loft openings. Bounded by low rendered walls having square-profile gate piers with pyramidal capstones.

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 Cullies, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2088 (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 Cullies with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Cullies

Area

1,137,181 m² (113.72 ha, 281 acres)

Civil parish

Annagelliff, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Cavan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

8,747 people lived in 2,931 households in the Cavan Rural electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 62% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Billis, Drumalee, Drumbo, Drumcalpin, Drumherrish, Latt

Placenames

Cullies 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.