Belpere

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Belpere, from 12 m² to 516,739 m² (51.67 ha, 127.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 93 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Feb 2026Conditional

  the development will consist of widened and amended road access to existing Road entrance, new single storey porch to front door, Extended dormer to south elevation facing road, new Roof lights, and associated ground works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660134

• 10 Dec 2021Conditional

  the construction of a storey and a half residence, domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system, new entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 212325

• 26 Mar 2021Conditional

  the development will consist of minor changes to the dwelling house as constructed to include reduction in width of the sunroom and minor changes to the windows and external door sizes together with changes to the domestic garage as constructed including the increased ridge height and alterations to the windows and external doors

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21575

• 21 Dec 2020Refused

  the construction of a storey and a half residence, domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system, new entrance and all associated site development works. Significant Further information/Revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA202023

• 9 Sept 2020Conditional

  a storey and a half style dwelling, advanced waste water treatment system and percolation area, upgrade existing residential entrance to form shared entrance with new entrance walls and piers, demolish existing domestic garage and all ancillary site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA201241

• 28 Aug 2020Conditional

  the retention of extension to residence and minor amendments to plans and elevations

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA201165

• 25 Jul 2018Conditional

  retention of 1) Rear extension to existing dwelling, 2) Domestic garage, 3) Argricultural/domestic store and 4) All ancillary site development works

  Retention · Meath County Council, RA180826

• 3 Nov 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a dormer residence, proprietary waste water treatment system, domestic garage and entrance

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, RA171283

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 Belpere.

Recorded monuments

• ME037-008 Henge
  Description

  Rath Maeve is located on an escarpment which occurs at the S end of the N-S ridge that has the monuments of the Hill of Tara at its N end, c. 1km distant. The soil is a grey-brown podzolic. The large enclosure is depicted as having two banks on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as ‘Rath Maeve’, but a second bank has never been described by any commentator and is probably illusory. A single bank encloses an oval, slightly domed interior (ext. dims 270m NE-SW: 235m NW-SE). The enclosure is best preserved at the north where the bank reaches a maximum internal height of 2.5m, with a flattened top, and there is an accentuated drop to the exterior of 4m. In well-preserved stretches, the bank is 7-10m wide at the base and reaches a maximum width of 15m in the west. The ground level surrounding the enclosure on this side is much lower than the level of the interior owing to its location on the escarpment. Thus the builders used a natural feature to enhance the size of the enclosing bank, and the shape of the natural escarpment dictated, to a certain extent, the location and ground plan of Rath Maeve. A townland boundary ditch runs outside the NE section of the monument, but its dimensions (Wth 1.5m; D1m) are too slight to have been the source of the bank. This material is most likely to have come from a scarped area, 25m wide, which can be traced along the inside edge or the bank. This gives the interior of Rath Maeve a domed shape. There are eight breaks along the circuit of the bank which appear to be the result of later disturbance, in addition to the original entrance (Wth 20m) at W where it has been dug into the natural escarpment. The townland boundary, which crosses the western part of the monument N-S, has an irregular kink and may have been diverted in this manner to respect an internal feature which was removed after the construction of the boundary. This occurs at the highest point within the enclosure, at the place from which the entire monument is visible. Archaeological testing (05E0185) by J. O’Neill c. 50m outside to the NE at the closest point produced no archaeological material (excavations.ie 2005:1185). (Ó Ríordáin 1964, 24; Evans 1966, 177; Stout 1991, 257; Newman 1997, 189-90) The perimeter was damaged in 2007, which resulted in the removal of the outer face of the bank at SE (L c. 110m) and the removal of vegetation from its surface at NE (L c. 80m). A stone deposit noted along the length of the damage in the SE section is probably from the outer edge of the original bank. Remedial work required the restoration of the original profile of the bank, field walking of the ploughed field to the S, and limited necessary excavation (E003465) by F. O’Carroll. The field walking produced 156 pieces of stone but preliminary analysis suggests that only seven showed signs of being worked. A stepped NW-SE section through the damaged bank at Gap 9, and a sondage at its base, in the E part of the perimeter was very rewarding. (O’Carroll 2007) The datum of the natural boulder clay dropped over 1.4m from the interior to the exterior, and a distinct low scarp (Wth 1.5m; H 0.3-0.35m) down to the interior was noticeable from beneath the centre of the bank. An orange – brown silty layer sat into this scarp with a thin humus over it, forming the base of the main bank. The lower bank material was derived largely from boulder clay and formed a level platform (Wth 4m; max. T 0.3m), with tip lines from the NW, or the interior of the monument. Further dump material, including a concentration of stones, was added to the SE and extended the platform to the extant outer edge of the bank (total Wth c. 6.5m). This was topped with a mix of boulder clay and topsoil beneath a gravel-rich layer, and both of these were retained by stone revetments at NW and SE creating an upright bank (total Wth c. 3.3m; H c. 0.75m). Topsoil sealed the bank and a compressed soil accumulated against the outer faces of the revetments. A small post-hole (dims 0.15-0.18m; D 0.14m) was found in the subsoil c. 1.5m inside the line of the inner revetment, and this was sealed by a compacted layer of sandy clay with stones that produced two pieces of struck chert, the only artefacts recovered. The post-hole may have been used as a marker to guide the original works, and the compacted layer may have formed a ramp up to the bank. This deposit was sealed by four layers of slump from the bank that can be separated into two earlier deposits of small angular stones, perhaps indicating a rapid initial collapse, and two layers of compacted soils with pebbles that meld into the ploughsoil. A gully (Wth 1.15m; max. D 0.7m), sealed with metaled surfaces, was dug through these slumped layers inside the bank and along the side of the entrance gap (L 8.5m). However, any slumping of the outer face of the bank did not appear in the section and must have been removed by persistent farming activity. On this side a flat-bottomed ditch (Wth 5.5m; D 0.75m plus), filled with organic deposits from which modern debris was recovered, is c. 4m outside the surviving outer edge of the bank and c. 1m lower. (O’Carroll 2007) See the attached section drawing from O'Carroll 2007, fig. 9 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 10 January 2017 Amended: 12 April 2022 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/2008). O’Carroll, F. 2007 Interim Report, Rath Maeve: Archaeological Field Walking, Investigation and Remedial Works at Rath Maeve. Licence: E003465. Unpublished report, CRDS

• ME037-034 Moated site
  Description

  Situated in a shallow NE-SW valley with the headwaters of a small NE-SW stream in the vicinity, including a silted N-S drain (Wth of top 8m; D 0.2-0.5m) just to the E. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 20m N-S; 19m E-W) defined by a silted moat (Wth of top 6.5-6.7m; Wth of base 3-4.5m; D 0.1-0.2m). It is most clearly visible on Google Earth (05/10/2009; 12/07/2013; 20/03/2018), and it is listed as a crannog (Newman 1997, 340). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 March, 2015 Amended: 21 August 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Belpere.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Belpere.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Belpere with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Belpere

Area

3,289,572 m² (328.96 ha, 812.87 acres)

Civil parish

Killeen, and its townlands

Barony

Skreen

Electoral division

Killeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killeen electoral division: 1,283 people in 418 households; 89% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arlonstown, Belpere, Clowanstown, Dunsany, Killeen, Odder, Ross, Swainstown

Placenames

Belpere on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.