Kilcumny

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcumny, from 1,489 m² to 422,405 m² (42.24 ha, 104.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilcumny 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.

• 12 Aug 2026N/a

  development which will consist of planning permission to construct new dungstead and ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660429

• 10 May 2023Conditional

  construction of a slatted shed with underground tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2360128

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 Kilcumny.

Recorded monuments

• WM008-096 Church
  Description

  The present remains consist of the ruins of a post-1700 rectangular church (approx. dims. 5.5m N-S; 12m E-W) with walls (T 0.55m; H 3m) standing to roof height in N quadrant of irregular shaped graveyard (WM008-096001-). There is a ruinous tower (approx. dims. 2.4m N-S; 2.8m E-W; H 5m) at the NW end of the church with doorway in E wall of tower. There is a rounded window ope and door in the N gable of the transept and a similar round headed window in the E gable of the church. The interior contains tombstones & some wall tablets which mark the site of burial vaults & there is an entrance to a burial vault outside the W end. Local information suggests that the earlier medieval church was rebuilt for Protestant use in the 18th century and fell into disrepair with the building of St John’s Church at Loughstown, early in the 19th century. No surface remains visible of medieval church or of any fabric belonging to a medieval building. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 April 2017

• WM008-096001 Graveyard
  Description

  Post-1700 Kilcumny C of I Church (WM008-096001-) standing in N quadrant of an irregularly shaped graveyard (approx. diam. 70m NW-SE; 54m NE-SW) enclosed by a 19th century wall and containing post-1700 memorials. There is a second circular enclosure to the N of the church (approx. diam. 32m N-S; 26m E-W). The graveyard was described as following by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a; 'Cemetery with various cut stone grave markers and vaults, c.1700 -1850. Now disused. Contains the family vaults and grave markers of the Smyth family of nearby Glananea and Drumcree county houses. Site situated in slight depression in landscape to the south of the rear (south) entrance to Glananea country house and is bounded by circular enclosure wall constructed of limestone rubble. Pre-1700 church in ruinous condition to north of enclosure. Vault 1: A large inscribed stone slab with four iron lifting rings, marks the opening to the vault. Inscribed 'The burial place of the Drumcree Family enlarged by Thomas Smyth 1765.' Vault 2: A large stone slab with four iron lifting rings, marks the opening, with a wall plaque mounted adjacent which reads 'Glananea Family Vault'. Vault 3: Located outside on the west side, a large stone slab with four holes, laid at an incline to the wall. Small stone slab adjacent reads 'Into thine hands I commit my spirit. Psalms xxx1st-3rd' (www.buildingsofireland.ie). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 April 2017

• WM008-096002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Possible ecclesiastical enclosure identified by Swan (1988, 11) who recorded that there was evidence of a possible enclosure in the irregular oval form of the boundary wall of Kilcumny graveyard (WM008-096001-). Possible cropmark of circular enclosure in field to E and S of graveyard visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 20 August 2015

Architectural heritage

• Graveyard/cemetery, 1700–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cemetery with various cut stone grave markers and vaults, c.1700 -1850. Now disused. Contains the family vaults and grave markers of the Smyth family of nearby Glananea and Drumcree county houses. Site situated in slight depression in landscape to the south of the rear (south) entrance to Glananea country house and is bounded by circular enclosure wall constructed of limestone rubble. Pre-1700 church in ruinous condition to north of enclosure. Vault 1: A large inscribed stone slab with four iron lifting rings, marks the opening to the vault. Inscribed 'The burial place of the Drumcree Family enlarged by Thomas Smyth 1765.' Vault 2: A large stone slab with four iron lifting rings, marks the opening, with a wall plaque mounted adjacent which reads 'Glananea Family Vault'. Vault 3: Located outside on the west side, a large stone slab with four holes, laid at an incline to the wall. Small stone slab adjacent reads 'Into thine hands I commit my spirit. Psalms xxx1st-3rd.

• Glebe House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over partially raised basement former Church of Ireland rectory on L-shaped-plan, built c.1811. Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of moulded rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls, now partially covered in ivy. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and replacement windows. Wyatt-style replacement windows to the northwest elevation. Central segmental-headed doorway to the main façade (southwest) having a recessed glazed timber door, cut stone pilasters with console brackets supporting a moulded lintel over and with a spider’s web fanlight. Flight of cut stone steps gives access to doorway. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the southeast of Drumcree. Gravel forecourt to the southwest and main gates to the northwest.

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

Name

Kilcumny · Cill Chuimne

Area

1,014,048 m² (101.4 ha, 250.58 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcumny, and its townlands

Barony

Delvin

Electoral division

Kilcumny, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacahil And Derries, Barbavilla Demesne, Glananea Or Ralphsdale, Kilwalter, Robinstown

Placenames

Kilcumny 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.