Keeloge

Area

600,542 m² (60.05 ha, 148.4 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Keeloge

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 4 recorded monuments.

• OF008-067 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  A drawing of the fields to the W of Durrow Abbey House (OF009-005002-) drawn by Reverend Sterling de Courcy Williams in 1899 shows the 'probable site of mill' which may have been the location of a pre-1700 mill (De Courcy Williams 1899, 223, 232). See attached drawing taken from De Courcy Williams 1899. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 30 April 2014

• OF009-005004 Enclosure
  Description

  National Monument No. 313. There was no surface evidence of an enclosure in the area marked on the aerial photographs. This was an area of marsh land an unlikely location for an enclosure, there were many 19th century field drains in this field which may have showed up on the aerial photos. 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

• OF009-005005 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A monastery was founded at Durrow reputedly by Colum Cille [of the church] who died in 597 and whose feastday is celebrated on the 9th of June (Ó Riain 2011, 213-14). Colum Cille whose original name may have been Criomthann was descended from a branch of the Ceinéal Conaill of Donegal (ibid., 211). He established a monastery at Iona in Scotland and is the earliest known founder of a church outside of Ireland (ibid., 212). Over sixty churches claim to have been founded by Colum Cille many of which have no historical documentation to support their claims (ibid., 213). On the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map the holy well depicted as 'St. Columbkille's Well' is shown located in a field c. 85m to the SW of 'St. Columbkille's Island'. On the revised 1908 ed. OS 25-inch map the well is shown at a different location. On this map the holy well is depicted in the centre of 'St. Columbkille's Island'. A small grove of trees are shown standing in the area where the holy well is depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. It is possible that between 1838 and 1908 the original holy well was abandoned and a new pattern was later established at a spring well located in 'St. Columbkille's Island' and this well then became known as 'St. Columbkille's Well'. Holy well dedicated to St Colum Cille of Iona, Scotland. The well is located on flat poorly drained area enclosed by a semicircular water-filled trench depicted as St. Columbkille's Island on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Site of early Christian monastic enclosure (OF009-005001-), church (OF009-005013-), graveyard (OF009-005009-) and high cross (OF009-005010-) to S. The present well is enclosed by a late 19th or early 20th century stone built hut constructed with small boulders of granite and limestone with four steps leading down to the well. The water varies in depth from 0.2m to 0.75m deep. Just above the entrance to the well there is a slab with an inscription of recent origin with iron cross and votive offerings embedded into the top of the roof. In 1942 (ITA Survey) it was recorded that a local pattern was held at this well every year on the 9th of June the feastday of St Colum Cille. The pattern to the holy well is still being carried out here every year. 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 April 2014

• OF009-005022 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a low natural hillock 195m N of Durrow Abbey House (OF009-005002-) and 300m NW of Durrow church (OF009-005013-) and graveyard (OF009-005009-). Curving arc on E side of possible enclosure shows up as a partial cropmark on GSI aerial photograph (GSIAP N. 535/6) taken in 1973 (SMR File). Geophysical survey carried out in 2006 confirmed the identification of a large sub-circular shaped enclosure (diam. c. 110m E-W; 100m N-S) defined by a double ditch with possible entrance gap to S (King 2012, 128). A sub-square shaped feature in the E quadrant of the enclosure suggests the presence of possible structure, while other internal ditches suggest the possibility of divisions within the enclosure. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 29 April 2014

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.