Cloncullen

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloncullen. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloncullen 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 Cloncullen 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 Cloncullen.

Recorded monuments

• WM020-107 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Cloncullen Castle mentioned as a castle in 'Clunicully' in the terrier of the 1655 Down Survey map of Farbill barony (NLI MS 723-4). The castle is depicted as a tower house type structure on the 1655 Down Survey barony map where it is shown standing on lands belonging in 1640 to Sir Luke Fitzgerald (ibid.). Situated on a rise, in gently undulating pasture, 60m N of townland boundary in area of recent forestry plantation. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped structure. Not depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Castle site of c. 50m to NW of the location shown on the 1837 OS map. Monument described in 1983 as an irregular-shaped stony mound consisting of large chunks of masonry. The size and nature of the structure cannot be determined from the visible remains. No decorative or worked stone visible. A building (WM020-107001-) is located to the W and earthworks extend to S and W of the castle ruins. Traces of a roughly rectangular-shaped cropmark are visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 July 2019

• WM020-107001 Building
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, to W of Cloncullen castle (WM020-107----). Building depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map to W of castle . Monument described in 1983 as the grass-covered remains of a rectangular building (approx. dims. 17m N-S; 6.5m E-W) are visible. The wall footings of a second rectangular building (20m E-W; 7.5m N-S) adjoin to S and extend eastward. Several irregular-shaped stony mounds exist in the vicinity. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 08 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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).

No address of the register names Cloncullen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Cloncullen

Area

760,303 m² (76.03 ha, 187.87 acres)

Civil parish

Killucan, and its townlands

Barony

Farbill

Electoral division

Huntingdon, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Clonickilvant, Huntingdon, Kerinstown And Balrowan (rowley), Lisnabin

Placenames

Cloncullen on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.