Donore

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Donore, from 41 m² to 471,664 m² (47.17 ha, 116.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 · 68 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3H1 - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.3TU - Transport and Utilities (Mixed/general water/wastewater uses)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2B1 - Commercial Town or Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 26 Sept 2024N/a

  planning permission for the following: (1) to retain existing rear extension to museum currently in use as a Mens Shed workshop and also containing toilets and an office. (2) permission to construct a new stand alone Mens Shed Workshop building with covered storage yard area between existing and proposed building. (3) permission for change of use of existing Mens Shed Workshop area to museum area. (4) permission for all associated site development works on site at Donore Moynalty

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460789

• 16 Dec 2022Conditional

  the development will consist of a new single storey, flat-roofed extension with 1 no. roof light to connect from the existing single storey pitched dwelling to a newly proposed pitched roof extension. This will include demolition of a flat roof existing porch and forming a new opening in an existing window to the existing property. The extension will house an entrance lobby (flat roof connector), a kitchen, dining area and living room (new pitched roof section). Ground works to include creating a new gate to the side of the property away from the corner and associated groundworks for drainge and a new septic tank

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221659

• 9 Nov 2018Conditional

  to retain 9no light standards along entrance driveway and carpark and 2no pier top lights at entrance to their property

  Retention · Meath County Council, KA181336

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 Donore.

Recorded monuments

• ME011-011 Mound
  Description

  Situated on a hillock in the valley of the meandering NW-SE Owenroe or Moynalty River, with the stream c. 120m to the N. The Moynalty hoard, consisting of nine pieces of eight-century AD metalwork, including a highly ornate door-handle probably from a church, was found c. 250m to the N beside the river (Ryan 1987). The mound would have been in full view of Donore House c. 170m to the E before farm sheds intervened. This is a flat-topped grass-covered mound (diam. of top 10.5m E-W; 10m N-S) defined by a scarp (at SE: H 2.5m) and planted with deciduous trees. The base is surrounded by a quarry and outer bank ENE-S-SW. The E half of the mound has been removed and only a small portion of the outer bank survives at S (Roycroft 2018, 3-4, Fig. 21). Archaeological testing (01E1196) by B. Shanahan of a limited area (c. 0.3 ha) c. 50m to the E at the closest point produced no archaeological material (excavations.ie 2001:1014). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 April 2019 Amended: 14 October 2025

Architectural heritage

• Moynalty Bridge, bridge, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Six-arch road bridge, c.1750. Rendered rubble limestone walls with roughly dressed stone arch ring. Upstream side of bridge has triangular cutwaters. One cutwater is full-height and originally was a pedestrian refuge.

• Graveyard/cemetery, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Private burial ground, c.1912, containing marble grave marker surrounded by cast-iron railings on concrete plinth.

• Weir, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Weir, sluice gates and race, c.1920. Cement rendered building on north side of mill race contains generating machinery.

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 Donore.

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 Donore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Donore · Dún Uabhair

Area

1,897,558 m² (189.76 ha, 468.9 acres)

Civil parish

Moynalty, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Lower

Electoral division

Moynalty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moynalty electoral division: 650 people in 234 households; 79% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintlieve, Baltrasna, Knockaranny, Moynalty, Rathinree Upper

Placenames

Donore 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.