Kellybrook

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kellybrook, from 349 m² to 444,278 m² (44.43 ha, 109.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Kellybrook 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 Kellybrook 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 Kellybrook.

Recorded monuments

• WM024-061 Barrow - pond barrow
  Description

  National Monument No. 155. Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 51) as following: 'Subcircular enclosure delimited by a broad, low bank (Diam. 22.7m N-S x 25.5m E-W) surrounding a hollowed-out area roughly centred on an enormous, fragmentary limestone boulder (H. c. 4.5m) known as the ‘Catstone’, which is 3.7m from the bank where this is closest on SW side; interior reaches below external ground level and has presumably been excavated to gather material for the bank, and possibly to expose the lower part of the Catstone, as was suggested to Borlase by a local labourer. Monument is located in rough pastureland that slopes down steeply from NE to SW, the slope including both surrounding bank and hollowed interior. Bank ranges from 4.4m to 4.6m in width and reaches up to 1.36m above interior ground-level immediately inside high E side; although on SE side, where bank is prominent, it rises 2.1m above that part of interior immediately adjacent to Catstone; bank reaches up to 0.54m in height above external ground level but may be higher on overgrown S side, where ground falls away sharply. This is the ‘Catstone’, a recent name derived from its supposed appearance. A cylindrical hole visible in the top of the central boulder was clearly intended to support the flag-pole which Macalister and Praeger say was erected on it in its capacity as a recent ‘centre for political and other meetings’. For the historical and mythic significance of this ancient and important monument marking the traditional centre of Ireland, and named variously as Aill na Mireann or ‘Rock of the Divisions’, Petram Coithrigi (Tírechán) and Umbilicus Hiberniæ (Giraldus Cambrensis), see Macalister and Praeger (1928, 78-80) and Schot (2006, 40-41). Dr Cyril Fox, director of the National Museum of Wales, who assisted with the Uisneach excavations, suggested to Macalister and Praeger that the embanked enclosure ‘might have been added to the Catstone stone in order to produce an artificial resemblance to an umbilicus, thus linking the boulder to the Omphalos cult at Delphi and elsewhere’ (Macalister and Praeger 1928, 78). Certainly, as Schot demonstrates with an aerial photograph, it has the appearance of a navel from the air. Among early references to the site, Tírechán in his seventh-century Life of St. Patrick claims that the saint was here with ‘pilgrims’ (peregrini), apparently with the intention of founding a church, and that he met one of the sons of the progenitor of the Cenél Fiachach, Fíachu mac Néill, at the sone. In the Tripartite Life the saint actually founds a monastery at Uisneach: Macalister and Praeger suggest a ringfort c. 200m to SE (WM024-069----) as the site of the saint’s foundation. There are references in Camden to a Bishopric ‘of Meath or Elnamirand [Aill na Mireann]’ (Macalister and Praeger 1928, 78-80; Herity 2011, 81; Bieler 1979, 136-7). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015

• WM024-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  National Monument No. 155. Described in 1976 as ‘a roughly circular area (diam. 29.8m ENE-WSW; 28m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank with trees growing on it. There is a stream and field boundary to the N. The bank has a slight inner crest on N-NE and is surrounded by a fosse , shallow but fairly wide (rock cut) on NE-E. On the SW and W the fosse is barely visible but here there is a slight indication of a low counterscarp outer bank. Probable entrance (original) gap (Wth 2.5-5m) on the E. Within the interior there is a considerable amount of stone most of which appears to be the natural limestone outcropping but there are traces though vague of a possible stone structure. A very large limestone slab is visible in the SW quadrant and beside and under this there is evidence of recent digging. The interior slopes slightly from E to W. Macalister suggests that this may be the ecclesiastical site mentioned in the legends but the evidence does not support this’ (SMR File 23/04/1976). Ordnance Survey Fair Plan map depicts a ‘fort’ and shows a small rectangular ruin marked in red ink just N of centre in the interior of the enclosure (SMR File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 January 2016

• WM024-192 Standing stone
  Description

  Monument identified and described by Schot (2016) as following; 'A recumbent stone pillar, possibly a collapsed standing stone, lies on the SW slope of Uisneach, c.80m N of the Cat Stone (WM024-061----). It consists of a roughly rectangular limestone slab, with a NW/SE long axis, and measures 1.88m in length by 0.77m wide and c.0.45m in maximum thickness. The stone is located on the line of a former field boundary, which is marked on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map but was removed prior to the compilation of the 1914 map'. See attached photo provided by Dr. Roseanne Schot Compiled by: Dr. Roseanne Schot Date of upload: 07 May 2019

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).

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

Name

Kellybrook

Area

452,784 m² (45.28 ha, 111.89 acres)

Civil parish

Conry, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Ballymorin, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Clonownmore, Killarecastle, Killarechurch, Lalistown, Moranspark, Rathnew, Ushnagh Hill

Placenames

Kellybrook 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.