Kilcommock Glebe

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcommock Glebe, from 3,340 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres) to 351,741 m² (35.17 ha, 86.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kilcommock Glebe 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.

• 8 Jul 2026Conditional

  renovation of existing derelict gate lodge to include a new roof to accommodate first floor dormer, single extension to the rear, amendments to relevant elevations, installation of new WWTP and percolation area (all within the curtilage of a Protected Structure Kilcommock Glebe Rectory & Outbuildings) and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Longford County Council, 2660216

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  a 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm and energy storage compound with a total area of circa 130 hectares. The proposed development will consist of a solar farm comprising of c. 661,500 sq.m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, associated string inverters mounted to rear of panels and 42 no. single storey electrical transformer stations. The proposed development includes an energy storage compound consisting of 38 no. containerised energy storage modules and associated plant and equipment, 10 no. transformers, 2 no. auxiliary transformers, 1 no. medium voltage control / switching substation and 1 no. spare parts container. The proposed development will also include underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site and within the L1139, L1137, L1135, R392 and L1132 public roads, and crossing of the Royal Canal (either by open trench or horizontal directional drill), temporary construction compounds, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks (including clear span bridge over Donacurry River), landscaping, drainage and all ancillary development works and apparatus necessary to facilitate the proposed development. Construction and operational access will be via 5 no. existing entrances from the L1139, L1137, L1135 and L1132 which will be upgraded and 2 no. new entrances from the L11351. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460325

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• LF022-032 Church
  Description

  On a low rise, centrally located within a graveyard (LF022-032001-). According to the OS Letters, the ‘parish of Kilcommock is called in Irish Cill Dha Chomoóg, i.e., the church of St. Da-Chomóg’ (OSL, 78). In 1411 Bernard Macmurkerchaid was appointed to the vicarage of ‘St. Frigius’s Killdacanog’ (Cal. papal letters 1904, vol. 6, 262) and in 1542 the rectory was leased to Walter Tirrell of Dublin (Nicholls 1994, vol. 1, 37). In 1623 Nathaniel Hollington was appointed to the vicarage (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 570). The church is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Rathcline barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.48). This multiperiod church (ext. dims. 16.25m E-W; 7.65m N-S; wall T 0.8m) is constructed with rubble limestone that has been recently repointed. It is probably of late 17th-century date but it may have been built on the site of an earlier church and it was remodelled in the mid-18th century (www.buildingsofireland.ie, Reg. 13402211, last accessed 22 April 2013). The large round headed-windows: one the in N wall and E gable, and three in the S wall, were inserted during the 18th-century remodelling. At this time an entrance porch or possibly the lower stage of a W tower (int. dims. 4.78m N-S ; 2.85m E-W; wall T 0.7m), as frequently found in churches (C of I) dating from the 18th and early 20th centuries, was added to the W end of the church (ibid.). A square-headed doorway in the S wall of this porch/tower leads to another doorway in the W gable. A blocked-up doorway at first-floor level in this gable probably accessed a gallery. All the architectural features noted in the church date to the 18th century and include moulded cornices on the N and S walls, a memorial plaque dated 1749 at the W end of the S wall and an impressive wall-tomb near the E end of the N wall. Within the graveyard late-medieval limestone window mullions have been reused as grave-markers. These architectural fragments may have come from the earlier church. (Wilson 1897a, 183; Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 227) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF022-032001 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with a church (LF022-032----). This rectangular graveyard (62m E-W; 31m N-S) is enclosed by a stone wall. Access is via a round-topped wrought-iron gate, set into a large cut-stone surround, in the E wall. Memorial plaques (LF022-032002-, LF022-032003-) on each side of the gateway date to 1649. Some late-medieval window mullions from the church have been reused as grave-markers. Memorials date from the 18th to the 20th centuries. (Wilson 1897a, 183; Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 227; Lennon 2005) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF022-032002 Memorial stone
  Description

  Flanking the gateway in the E wall of a graveyard (LF022-032001-). The is the S example (H 0.55m; Wth 0.55m) of two limestone plaques. The inscription, carved in Roman capitals in relief, reads 'ORA PRO RO P. HVBE/RTO CAHILL VICCA/RIO DE KILDACOMO/CK ET SHRVER QVI/ HOS MVROS CAMI/TERM KILDA[COMOCK]ENSIS/ SUIS EXPENSIS/ FIERI FECIT/ ADNI 1649' (Pray for reverend father Hubert Cahill, vicar of Kildacomock and Shrule, who had these walls of the cemetery of Kildacomock made at his own expense in the year of our Lord 1649). See also LF022-032003-. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 April 2012

• LF022-032003 Memorial stone
  Description

  Flanking the gateway in the E wall of the graveyard (LF022-032001-). This is the N example (H 0.72m; Wth 0.61m) of two limestone plaques. The inscription, in Roman capitals carved in relief, reads 'ORA PIE LECT/OR PRO R.P. HUBE/RTO CAHILL VICC/ARIO DE KILDACO/MOCK ET SHRVE[R]/ QVI RETROERE /AM SACRISTAM IN/ HONORE BMAE V M/ARIAE SUIS EXPE/NSIS FIERI FECIT/ AO D 1649' (Pius reader pray for reverend father Hubert Cahill, vicar of Kildacomock and Shrule, who had the rear sacristy (?) built in honour of the most blessed Virgin Mary, at his own expense, in the year of Our Lord 1649). See also LF022-032002-. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 April 2012

• LF022-050 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In an area of outcropping rock, c. 100m to the W of Kilcommock Church (LF022-032----). In 1837 O’Donovan recorded that 'The holy well of the parish is called Cloghree, which is 'the stone of the king' in English' (OSL, 79). Described in 1976 (SMR file) as a natural unenclosed spring, issuing from under a natural outcropping rock, which flowed to the SW to form a small stream. The well is now fenced off and no votive offerings are visible. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 7 June 2013

Architectural heritage

• Kilcommock Rectory, outbuilding, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single-and two-storey outbuildings associated with Kilcommock Church of Ireland rectory, built c. 1810, comprising a two-bay two-storey outbuilding to the east (former coach house) of the rectory having slightly recessed single-bay single-storey sections to either side (north and south) and a four-bay single-storey outbuilding to the north. Single-bay single-storey lean-to addition to the north end of outbuilding to the east and single-storey open shed to the south side having lean-to corrugated-metal roof supported on iron posts. Hipped natural slate roofs to outbuilding to the east having cut stone eaves courses, remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and having a rendered chimneystack to the single-storey bay to the north end. Pitched natural slate roof and cast-iron rainwater goods to outbuilding to north. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors and timber windows. Segmental-headed opening to two-storey outbuilding at first floor level having recessed square-headed fix-pane window. Segmental-headed carriage arch to outbuilding to north having replacement timber batted double doors. Two segmental-headed carriage arches to two-storey section of outbuilding to east having roughly dressed limestone voussoirs and timber battened double doors. Entrance to outbuilding to east of rectory through gateway comprising a pair of dressed ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having stepped capstones over. Rubble limestone boundary walls to site. Located in extensive mature grounds shared with associated rectory (13402221), and located to the south of Keenagh.

• Church/chapel, 1675–1725 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-bay church, built c. 1680 and altered c. 1750, with single-bay addition/porch or first stage of former tower to the west gable end. Now in a state of ruin with roof now gone. Rubble stone masonry walls, recently repointed, with cut limestone eaves cornice. Remaining sections of roughcast lime render to walls. Round-headed window openings with roughly dressed voussoirs over. Square-headed door opening to south side of addition/tower to the west with cut limestone block-and-start surround having architrave and Gibbsian-type keystone over. Remains of carved wall plaques and memorials to interior of church. Set in graveyard on roughly rectangular-plan having rubble stone boundary walls. Rebuilt gateway to the east side of graveyard comprising a section of rock-faced limestone walling having integral round-headed chamfered cut limestone surround and wrought-iron flat-bar. Recessed square-headed panels to either side of entrance having Latin inscriptions (dated 1649) in bas relief. Collection of upstanding, recumbent and table-type cut stone grave markers to site, mainly dating from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century, some with cast- and/or wrought-iron railed surround. Located in the rural countryside to the south of Keenagh.

• Kilcommock Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over half basement former Church of Ireland rectory on L-shaped plan, built c. 1790 and altered or rebuilt c. 1827, having single-bay gable-fronted porch to the centre of the front elevation (south) and two-storey return and single-storey lean-to extension to rear (west). Now in use as private house. Hipped natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over rubble stone construction; chamfered cut stone eaves course above basement level. Cement rendered finish to porch over brick construction. Square-headed window openings with six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash widows to ground floor, all with tooled limestone sills. Segmental-headed window opening to front face of porch (south) having timber sliding sash window. Wrought-iron security bars to number of openings to rear elevation. Square-headed door openings to either side of porch (east and west) having timber panelled doors. Flights of cut stone steps to either side of porch having dressed limestone plinth walls; cast-iron railings to the east flight of steps. Set back from road in substantial mature grounds to the south of Keenagh. Complex of outbuildings to the east and to the north (13402209). Main entrance gateway to the north comprising a pair of rebuilt rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone caps and a pair of wrought-iron flat-bar gates. Associated Church of Ireland church (13313025) to the north in Keenagh, and former church (13402211) to the southwest.

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 Kilcommock Glebe, about 1 in 5 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilcommock Glebe.

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 Kilcommock Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Kilcommock Glebe · Cill Dachomóg

Area

1,428,862 m² (142.89 ha, 353.08 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommock, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Kilcommock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,161 people lived in 410 households in the Kilcommock electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartronawar, Cloonbreany, Corryena, Creagh, Foygh, Laughil, Tirlickeen

Placenames

Kilcommock Glebe 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.