Killulagh

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killulagh, from 2,516 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) to 89,076 m² (8.91 ha, 22.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Killulagh 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 Killulagh 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 Killulagh.

Recorded monuments

• WM013-056 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Situated on top of a natural hillock with possible Anglo-Norman ringwork (WM013-058----) 150m to SSE, Killulagh church and graveyard 285m to NNE. Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 54) as following: ‘Dome-shaped tumulus, roughly circular (Diam. 13.8m NW-SE x 12.4m NE-SW) but poorly defined on ESE side, possibly due to slippage, and severely distorted by a mature ash on SSE side, the roots of which spread around and deeply into the mound, especially its S half; these roots to an extent help shore up the mound, which is intact above or upslope of the line of roots but severely eroded below this line. Height of mound above surrounding ground level ranges from 1.5m at SE to 1.75m at SW. W side of mound was densely overgrown at time of visit and could not be closely inspected. The ASI account of 21/8/81 noted that ‘The perimeter at SE & the SW has been slightly damaged by digging in the past;’ the same account identified the monument as a bowl-barrow, but given that no mention is made of a perimeter ditch; that the ASI account of 13/9/73 specifically mentions that ‘There is no trace of a surrounding fosse’ [SMR file]; and that the present survey team observed no trace of any, the monument seems best classified as a mound-barrow. Monument is prominently positioned in pasture on N side of low hill with best visibility to N, the ground dropping away sharply to NE but less so to NW and SE; the land to SW is of a similar height. About 250m to NE is a burial ground containing the ruined medieval parish church of Killulagh (WM013-057----)’. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 8 February 2016

• WM013-057 Church
  Description

  Medieval parish church dedicated to St. Lonán whose feast day fell on the 12th of November (Ó Riain 2011, 403). The medieval parish church and graveyard may have been built on the site of an early Christian monastery founded by St. Lonán. In 1412 John Nugent a priest in the diocese of Meath was assigned to the 'parish church of St. Lonanus [Lonán], Kylwelagh [Killulagh], in the said diocese, by the death of Henry Okelly' (Cal. papal letters, 367). In 1462 there was a reference in the Irish Chancery Letters to the estate of James Nugent who was described as 'chaplain, rector of the church of St. Lonanus of Kilwelagh' (CIRCLE, CR 1 Edw. IV, No. 53; chancery.tcd.ie/document/patent/1-edward-iv/51). Situated on elevated grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside, poorly drained reclaimed land surrounding Killulagh Church and graveyard. Stream located 75m to W, tower house (WM013-059----) 630m to E, motte castle (WM013-058----) 320m to SSW. Only the ivy-covered SW gable of the medieval parish church of Killulagh stands in the SW quadrant of an oval-shaped graveyard (WM013-057001-). Only the ivy-covered SW gable (int. dims. 5.65m N-S; wall T 0.9m), with short sections of the adjoining N and S walls (L 4m; H of S wall 1.3m; N wall 3m) of the church survive upstanding. There are no visible remains of the outline for the rest of the church which appears to haven destroyed by post-1700 burial plots. The ivy-covered SW gable has an external base batter which may have supported a belfry rising from the apex of the gable. The SW gable contains a broken out rectangular shaped window (approx. H 2.5m above ground level) at first floor level. An offset (H 2.3m) for a wooden floor is visible on the internal face of the SW gable just below the window. An early 20th century wall memorial to the Mulligan family has been inserted into the centre of inner face of the SW gable. The voussoirs of an arch are visible in the wall just below the Mulligan memorial. A single hammer-dressed chamfered jambstone of the medieval church doorway with bullnose stop has been used as a capstone for the graveyard entrance stile located 25m to the SW. The octagonal shaft of the medieval font (WM013-057003-) and bullaun stone (WM013-057004-) are located just inside the graveyard gateway and stile. Compiled and revised by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 6 April 2018

• WM013-057001 Graveyard
  Description

  Medieval parish church (WM013-057----) dedicated to St. Lonán whose feast day fell on the 12th of November (Ó Riain 2011, 403). The medieval parish church and graveyard may have been built on the site of an early Christian monastery founded by St. Lonán. Situated on elevated grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside, poorly drained reclaimed land surrounding the graveyard. Stream located 75m to W, tower house (WM013-059----) 630m to E, motte castle (WM013-058----) 320m to SSW. An oval shaped graveyard (approx. diam. 47m NW-SE; 81m NE-SW) heavily planted with ornamental bushes and conifers that is enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall, with gateway and stone stile at SW. The ruins of the medieval parish church (WM013-057---) of Killulagh stands in the SW quadrant. The shaft of a medieval font (WM013-057003-) and a bullaun stone (WM013-057004-) are located immediately inside graveyard gateway. The graveyard contains a large number of gravestones dating from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and is criss-crossed with several pathways lined with low stones. The bowl of the medieval font has been moved from the graveyard to the R.C. church located 240m to SSE. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 April 2017

• WM013-057002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Medieval parish church (WM013-057----) of Killulagh dedicated to St. Lonán whose feast day fell on the 12th of November (Ó Riain 2011, 403). The medieval parish church and graveyard may have been built on the site of an early Christian monastery founded by St. Lonán. Situated on elevated grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside, poorly drained reclaimed land surrounding the graveyard. Stream located 75m to W, tower house (WM013-059----) 630m to E, motte castle (WM013-058----) 320m to SSW. Possible ecclesiastical enclosure identified by Swan (1988, 12) who recorded that there was evidence of a possible enclosure in the regular oval-shaped enclosure of Killulagh graveyard (WM013-057001-). The slight remains of a wide low bank outside the church-yard wall on the N and NE sides would appear to be part of the ecclesiastical enclosure. There are numerous earthworks in the field surrounding the church and graveyard the majority of which appear to be old drainage channels or natural watercourses and field system of unknown antiquity. A short distance out from the graveyard wall there is a slight rise of ground on the N side which may represent the remains of an enclosing feature which pre-dates the post1700 stone wall that now encloses Killulagh graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 20 August 2015

• WM013-057004 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Medieval parish church dedicated to St. Lonán whose feast day fell on the 12th of November (Ó Riain 2011, 403). The medieval parish church and graveyard may have been built on the site of an early Christian monastery founded by St. Lonán. Only the ivy-covered SW gable of the medieval parish church of Killulagh (WM013-057----) stands in the SW quadrant of an oval-shaped graveyard (WM013-057001-) which is entered through a gateway and stone stile at SW. The octagonal shaft of the medieval font (WM013-057003-) and bullaun stone are located just inside the graveyard gateway and stile on the N side. Roughly circular-shaped stone (0.3m x 0.26m x 0.14m) with oval-shaped hollow (diam. at top 0.15m; D 0.08m) in centre. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 April 2018

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

Name

Killulagh · Cill Uailleach

Area

553,109 m² (55.31 ha, 136.68 acres)

Civil parish

Killulagh, and its townlands

Barony

Delvin

Electoral division

Killulagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Battstown, Dryderstown, Mulchanstown, Williamstown (briscoe), Williamstown (rochford)

Placenames

Killulagh 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.