Cullenagh

Cullenagh in Irish “Cuileannach” meaning holly land is 664.62 acres or 268.96 hectares in size and is in the Electoral division of Marblehill.

Cullenagh borders Drum, Drumkeary West, Knockaundarragh, Reynabrone, Tooreen North and Tooreen South.

What we recorded

Placenames
27 (6 Irish-origin)

By type

  • 22 field
  • 1 mass rock
  • 1 bridge
  • 1 crossroads
  • 1 bog
  • 1 road
Houses
12
Buildings
2

Map

Placenames

NameTypeNotes
The Mass Stonemass rockLocation not exact.
Drummin BridgebridgeAlso Cullenagh Bridge.
Cullenagh CrosscrossroadsPronounced “Cuillena”.
The Bogbog
Stony Porfreefield
Grán Gráinneachfield
Under the Oul’ DoorfieldThe area around Madden’s old house.
The Meadowfield
Small Porfreefield
Ferny Porfreefield
The Hillfield
New Porfreefield
Coarse Meadowfield
New Gardenfield
Spain’s Roadroad
The Two Sticksfield
The Ridge Fieldfield
The BeatinfieldPronounced “The Baytin”.
The Goat Cabbin Fieldfield
The Burnt Hillfield
The Hay Haggartfield
The Muinfield
The Bogsfield
The Hillfield
The Goat’s Fieldfield
The Bogsfield
The Bogsfield

Houses

NameNotes
Eoin Sheanan’s House
Jack Flynn’s House
Harney’s House
Madden’s HouseThe oldest of the 3 Madden’s houses here.
Jordan’s House
Padraig Sheanan’s HouseKnown as “Crooshstoff”
Mike Madden’s House
Barney Sheanan’s House
Madden’s House
Rourke’s House
Rourke’s House
Anne Halloran’s House

Buildings

NameNotes
The Carpenter Rourke’s Shop
Tom Sheanan’s Forge

Population

In the 1841 census there were 81 people, 16 inhabited and 1 uninhabited house, and in the 1851 census, after the famine, the population had fallen to 69 people and 13 houses.

Cullenagh Population 1841 - 1926

Land and Household Records

Landholders and heads of household recorded in the Tithe Applotment Books, Griffith’s Valuation, and the 1901, 1911 and 1926 censuses.

Tithe Applotment Books, 1834

Not yet compiled.

Griffith’s Valuation, 1856

Not yet compiled.

1901 census

Not yet compiled.

1911 census

Not yet compiled.

1926 census

  • Anne Halloran
  • John Rourke
  • Martin Rourke
  • Bernard Shaenon
  • Thomas Sheanon
  • Michael Leahy
  • Patrick Sheanon
  • Martin Madden
  • John Rourke
  • Patrick Flynn

About the Townland

A crossroads on a narrow country road, with trees and forestry in the distance and a blue sky
Cullenagh Cross
A dry-stone bridge with a single arch over a small stream, surrounded by bushes and long grass
Drummin/Cullenagh Bridge

A possible standing stone, a large upright slab of limestone about 1.5 metres high, is recorded in the bogland in the south of the townland.

A lichen-covered upright limestone slab among heather in open bogland, with forestry in the distance
Cullenagh Possible Standing Stone (GA124-002—-)