Two of the Wexford leaders, Colonel Anthony Perry and Father Mogue Kearns were captured here and were later hanged at Edenderry for their part in the 1798 Rebellion.

In 1883, Father Comerford wrote: "The village of Clonbullogue which is situated on the Little Barrow presents a decayed and ruinous appearance, some of the larger houses having been burned during the rebellion of 1798".

[1] The village population expanded in the 1950s to accommodate the workers employed to develop the area's bogs as an energy resource under the guidance of the Irish state company Bord na Móna.

[3] Other sites includes the remains of a togher at Ballykilleen, the ruins of Cloncrane Church, a ring-barrow at Shean and a sheela-na-gig from Ballynowlart and Clonsast.

The airfield is located about 2 km (1.2 mi) west of Clonbullogue village and lies under a restricted airspace designated EI-R16.

[citation needed] With the conquest of Ireland from the Cromwellian wars onwards, Clonbullogue was extensively planted by colonialists.

Boyle Travers, Protestant Rector of Rathangan and Clonmore (which includes part of this area) noted, "I bless God for the comforting assurance I have that there is no reputed friary, nunnery, friars, nuns or Popish schools".