Kilcleagh

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcleagh, from 22 m² to 168,664 m² (16.87 ha, 41.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilcleagh 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.

• 26 Mar 2024Conditional

  proposed change of use of an existing mixed use unit that comprises of an existing ground floor shop and first floor apartment to change to two separate apartment units and all associated internal and external works and site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2417

• 4 May 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION for development which will consist of an extension to the Kilcleagh Park development at Kilcleagh granted under planning reference 05/1191 which will consist of the addition of 0.055HA of site to the south of the existing development directly adjacent to the existing shop to facilitate permission for a new one and a half storey 4 bed detached dwelling. Permission is also sought for an associated new entrance and connection to the developments existing waste water treatment system and surface water sewer

  Extension of duration · Westmeath County Council, 2360

• 4 May 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION for development which will consist of an extension to the Kilcleagh Park development at Kilcleagh granted under planning ref 05/1191 which will consist of the addition of 0.055 HA of site to the south of the existing development to facilitate permission for a new one and half storey 4 bed detached dwelling. Permission is also sought for an associated new entrance and connection to the developments existing waste water treatment system and surface water sewer

  Extension of duration · Westmeath County Council, 2359

• 13 Jan 2023Refused

  EXTENTION OF DURATION for development which will consist of an extension to the Kilcleagh Park development at Kilcleagh granted under planning ref 05/1191 which will consist of the addition of 0.055 HA of site to the south of the existing development to facilitate permission for a new one and half storey 4 bed detached dwelling. Permission is also sought for an associated new entrance and connection to the developments existing waste water treatment system and surface water sewer

  Extension of duration · Westmeath County Council, 232

• 4 Oct 2019N/a

  Construction of a single-storey dwelling house and garage with proprietary treatment unit and tertiary soil polishing filter percolation area, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 197208

• 14 Jun 2019Refused

  Construction of a four-bedroom dwelling with garage, effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works and drainage

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 197123

• 14 May 2019Conditional

  Installation of eight 15m high lighting poles with LED sports floodlights and associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 197106

• 28 Mar 2017Conditional

  The developments will consists of retention of amendments to the mixed use unit(shop/apartment) previously granted under planning ref: 05/1191. The amendments for retention to the as built unit consist of (I) a single storey extension to rear of the existing shop unit (ii) the addition of a door ope to south elevation and omission of two door ope's to the west elevation(iii) the addition of a stone finish to the south and east elevation and omission of stone finish to a section of the west elevation/Permission is also sought for a change of use of this existing mixed use unit that comprises of an existing ground floor shop and first floor apartment to change to a single two-storey 5 bed residential dwelling, the associated changing of two door ope's on the east elevation to two window ope's , the removal of two door ope's on the south elevation and replaced with three window ope's and the addition of two door openings to the west elevation and all ancillary site works. Permission is also sought for the retention and alteration of the schemes existing site boundaries surrounding this unit.

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177050

• 28 Mar 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of an extension to the Kilcleagh Park development at Kilcleagh granted under planning ref 05/1191 which will consist of the addition of 0.055 HA of site to the south of the existing development to facilitate permission for a new one and half storey 4 bed detached dwelling. Permission is also sought for an associated new entrance and connection to the developments existing waste water treatment system and surface water sewer

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177051

• 28 Mar 2017Conditional

  The development will consist of an extension to the Kilcleagh Park development at Kilcleagh granted under planning reference 05/1191 which will consist of the addition of 0.055HA of site to the south of the existing development directly adjacent to the existing shop to facilitate permission for a new one and a half storey 4 bed detached dwelling. Permission is also sought for an associated new entrance and connection to the developments existing waste water treatment system and surface water sewer

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177052

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 Kilcleagh.

Recorded monuments

• WM036-008 Bastioned fort
  Description

  Situated on the demesne lands of Castle Daly now Kilcleagh Park (WM036-011----), which lies c. 285m to NE. A corn mill (WM036-010----) and castle (WM036-011----) lies c. 185m to ENE. Annotated 'Battery' on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and depicted as a rectangular-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 27m E-W; 24m N-S). Not shown on revised ed. OS maps. According to O’Donovan (OSNB 34, 37), this is an ornamental mound shaped constructed to resemble an artillery fortification known as a battery. There is a flagstaff on the mound but no military arsenal is mounted. Described in 1977 as a roughly rectangular-shaped platform (approx. dims. 17m x 17m) defined by a ditch with traces of bastions at each corner. The W side is better preserved than the E side. Bushes growing on the edge of the platform and cattle have denuded much of the surface. The earthwork overlooks the old road which runs E-W past Castle Daly now Kilcleagh Park. Monument is visible today as a rectangular-shaped partially tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Possibly the remains of a 17th century star-shaped earthen fort or constructed as an ornamental landscaped feature designed to look like a 17th century artillery fortification on the demesne of Castle Daly (WM036-011----). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 November 2019

• WM036-009 Church
  Description

  Ivy-covered church ruins standing on a low rise of ground in the N quadrant of a roughly oval-shaped graveyard (WM036-009001-) which now occupies N quadrant of large modern cemetery located immediately to the S and W of the smaller graveyard. Kilcleagh Castle (WM036-011----) located 350m to the SSE. Church and graveyard may be situated inside possible ecclesiastical enclosure (WM036-009002-) (Swan 1988, 10). In the second half of the 15th century the vicarage of Kilcleagh was in the hands of the O’Malone/Ua Máeleoin family (Kehnel 1997, 194-5). In the 15th century the church of Kilcleagh was also known as Killeomilenyn, alias Kyllomyleon which was probably derived from Cell Ua Máeleoin [church of the Malone’s] (ibid., 195). The identification of Kilcleagh with 'Kyllomyleon' is problematical and may be incorrect, it is possible that Kyllomyleon may have been located closer to Ballynahown Castle which was the residence of the Malone family. The 1656 Down Survey map of Clonlonan Barony depicts 'Killomoltan' in the vicinty of Ballynahown Castle (WM035-011----) while the Down Survey parish map of Kilcleagh records that the townland of Ballynahown was also known as 'Killemoyllchan' (NLI MS 723-4). It is possible that the church at Killomenaghan (WM035-003----) may have been the church referred to in the papal letters as 'Kyllomyleon' rather than Kilcleagh. The church at 'Kyllomyleon' was a chapel of ease or a daughter chapel to the medieval parish church of Lochluacha [Ballyloughloe now Mount Temple (WM030-045001-)]. In 1452 the large medieval parish of Ballyloughloe [Lochluacha] was subdivided and the chapel of ‘Kyllomyleon’ became the perpetual vicarage of 'Kyllomileon' (Cal. papal letters, 541). In 1478 a papal letter to the abbot of Kilbeggan recorded that the perpetual vicarage of ‘Kyllonucon alias Kyncolman’ was vacant and it was ordered that the vicarage should be united to the vicarage of Ballyloughloe (Cal. papal letters, 66). Present remains consist of a large single cell ivy-covered church (int. dims. 16.15m E-W; 7.2m N-S; wall T 0.8m) the interior of which has been used as a burial place with memorials dating from the 18th century onwards. The walls of the church are constructed with limestone rubble with alternating dressed quoin stones. The W gable of the church is the best preserved wall standing to full height and is mainly covered in ivy. The ivy has been recent removed from a short section of this gable revealing an offset in the E face of the gable which supported a W gallery or wooden floor over the W end of the church. The N wall (H 2.5-3m) is covered with ivy with the remains of a blocked up window embrasure visible off centre to E. Only the lower wall courses of the E gable (H 1m) survives upstanding with no architectural features visible. A broken out doorway (ext. Wth 1m; int. Wth 1.4m) located off centre to W in S wall (H 2.3m) of the church gave access to the interior. The remains of a broken out window embrasure (int. Wth 1.7m) are visible off centre to E in the S wall of the church. Three cut stone window fragments belonging to the church appear to have been reused as grave markers to the S of the church. The faces of these chamfered window jambs have diamond-shaped sockets for the iron bars of a window grill. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 05 August 2014

• WM036-009001 Graveyard
  Description

  On a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside. A roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 35m N-S; 48m E-W) defined by a poorly preserved stone wall of post-medieval date which remains upstanding from W-N-E elsewhere it has been removed. The remains of a stone stile can be seen in the W wall of the graveyard. They ivy-covered ruins of a medieval church (WM036-009----) stand in the N quadrant of the graveyard. A modern cemetery has been built onto the S side of the graveyard and an access road has been constructed around the earlier graveyard which has resulted in the partial destruction of the enclosing graveyard wall. The graveyard contains memorials dating from the 18th century onwards. The majority of the memorials are located to the E, S and W of the church ruins. Architectural fragments belonging to the medieval church appear to have been reused as grave markers. Swan (1988, 10) identified the presence of an oval enclosure at Kilcleagh which may have been the remains of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (WM036-009002-). The semi-circular shaped scarp of the old graveyard may be following the line of the possible ecclesiastcial enclosure at Kilcleagh. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 5 August 2014

• WM036-009002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside. A roughly oval-shaped graveyard (WM036-009001-) defined by a poorly preserved stone wall of post-medieval date which remains upstanding from W-N-E elsewhere it has been removed. They ivy-covered ruins of a medieval church (WM036-009----) stand in the N quadrant of the graveyard. A modern cemetery has been built onto the S side of the graveyard and an access road has been constructed around the earlier graveyard which has resulted in the partial destruction of the enclosing graveyard wall. The graveyard contains memorials dating from the 18th century onwards. Swan (1988, 10) identified the presence of an oval-shaped enclosure at Kilcleagh which may have been the remains of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure. The semi-circular shaped scarp of the old graveyard visible on the S side only may be following the line of the possible ecclesiastcial enclosure at Kilcleagh. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 11 August 2014

• WM036-010 Mill - corn
  Description

  The precise location of the medieval corn mill in the townland of Kilcleagh has not been identified. The terrier of the 1659 Down Survey map of Kilcleagh parish barony states that there was in ‘Killcleagh a Castle in repaier and a Corne Mill in repaire’ (NLI, MS 723-4 ). The 1659 Down Survey map depicts the medieval mill standing on a mill race or stream in close proximity in an area to the S of the castle (WM036-011---) at Kilcleagh. The mill was located on the demesne lands of Castle Daly somewhere along the present watercourse running past Kilcleagh Park [Castle Daly] the line of which is shown on the OS 25-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 July 2015

• WM036-011 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Described by the NIAH as 'An elegant country house, of two distinct periods of construction, which retains much of its early form and character. This building is of good proportions and retains many salient features including a natural slate roof, hoodmouldings and a very fine Italianate porch, which is of high artistic merit. The bracketed eaves cornice, which runs around the building, effectively ties the late nineteenth-century extension with the original late eighteenth-century block. The fine original doorcase is composed to resemble a Venetian opening and mirrors the form and scale of the Venetian window over. This substantial residence was originally built Thomas Daly, High Sheriff of Westmeath, in the late eighteenth-century and replaced an early house/fortified house on site dating from the 1600s'.

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 Kilcleagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Kilcleagh

Area

1,552,830 m² (155.28 ha, 383.71 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcleagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Castledaly, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Aghavoneen, Ballycahillroe, Boggagh Eighter, Boyanagh (malone), Castletown, Clonmore, Newcastle, Toorydonnellan

Placenames

Kilcleagh 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.