Donore

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Donore, from 379 m² to 636,613 m² (63.66 ha, 157.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 65 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Apr 2026Conditional

  the development will consist of erection of single-storey L-shaped extension to the rear (East) of existing cottage and ancillary site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 26105

• 24 Mar 2026N/a

  the development will consist of erection of single-storey L-shaped extension to the rear (East) of existing cottage and ancillary site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2691

• 12 Mar 2026Refused

  File Ref: TA201943 - Construction of a storey and a half dwelling, wastewater treatment, new entrance to site and associated site works

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2686

• 11 Mar 2026N/a

  the development will consist of erection of single-storey L-shaped extension to the rear (East) of existing cottage and ancillary site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2685

• 29 Jun 2022Refused

  developments will involve relocation of site entrance granted under TA20193, to form a shared entrance with the landholding to the west of the application site in compliance with Section 9.15.3 Development Assessment Criteria of MCC CDP 2021-2927 and TII Road Link Design Standards DN-GEO-03031 (Feb 2012) and Geometric Design of Junction Standards DN-Geo-03060 (June 2017)

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22853

• 11 Jun 2021Conditional

  to retain existing storage shed and ancillary site works, planning permission is also sought to retain and modify existing entrance and ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211128

• 14 Dec 2020Conditional

  development will consist of the construction of a storey and a half dwelling, Waste water treatment, new entrance and associated site works. Significant Further information/Revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA201943

• 8 Dec 2020Refused

  retention permission for a storage shed and all associated site works on this site

  Retention · Meath County Council, TA201880

• 5 Sept 2019Conditional

  permission for a three bedroom bungalow type dwelling with domestic garage, new wastewater treatment tank & percolation system, new entrance, all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development work on this site

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, TA191165

• 18 Aug 2017Conditional

  development consists of (A) The retention of the partially complete single storey replacement dwelling house with attached garage, complete to roof level, along with planning permision for its completion, the completed works will be similar to the development granted planning permission under planning registry reference TA/150587. (B) Retention of the demolition of the existing single storey detached dwelling house. (C) Planning permission for new entrance gateway in lieu of the existing, realignment of the hedgerow, new access road, new proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area in lieu of the existing septic tank, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA170964

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• ME041-007 Religious house - Dominican friars
  Description

  Despite the dissolution of the Dominican abbey in Trim (ME036-048022-) which took place in 1539 the order maintained a continuing presence in the vicinity (Fenning 1961). Early in the 18th century a farm at Donore was let by a Mr. Ashe to the prior, and community life resumed in the new location c. 1713. The friars provided a pastoral service for many local parishes. In 1756 the community is recorded as Prior Patrick Lynham and six others. Novices were trained at Donore after 1773, and in 1788-9 an academy for boys was launched but it had little success. By the end of the century the community was in decline and it dispersed early in the 19th century. Fr. Laurence Shaw OP, who died in Ballivor in 1833 and is commemorated there, was the last of the community. A headstone erected in 1787 in the ruin of the parish church of Killyon (ME041-046----), c. 2km to the WSW, commemorates seven member friars, (Cogan 1862-70, 1, 307-10; 2, 346; Fenning 1963). Situated on the N bank of the River Boyne at a point c. 40m N of where it changes from a SW-NE course to NW-SE, and at the head of a steep slope down to the stream. A roofless structure (dims c. 10m E-W; c. 5m N-S) depicted on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map is described in gothic lettering as ‘Friary Chapel’. Another roofless structure (dims c. 10m N-S; c. 5m E-W) is depicted running S from its W end. The location is described as the site of the friary and chapel on the 1909 edition. The foundations of a N-S wall (L 11.7m; Wth 0.6m) with an entrance gap (Wth 1.2m) towards the N end is probably the W wall of the N-S structure. An oval cairn (dims of base 8.3m N-S; 5-6.4m E-W; H 0.8-1m) of stone and brick masonry is c. 8m to the W. Five trees are growing through the cairn, but a headstone with the date 1745 (SMR file 1942) is no longer present. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 March, 2015

• ME041-008 Castle - tower house
  Description

  This is a National Monument (No. 232) and its dimensions are thought to comply closely with the dimensions of castles constructed for the defence of the Pale after 1429. These were to be ’20 feet long, sixteen feet wide and forty feet high (c. 6.1m x c. 4.9m; H c. 12m)’ (Harbison 1970, 181) and simple structures of this size are regarded as the origin of the tower house (Leask 1949, 77; Sweetman 1999, 137). This tower house is situated on a slight rise on the N bank of a NW-SE section of the River Boyne, with the drained stream c. 40m to the SW. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Garrat Lench of Donowre in Killaconnigan parish owned 220 acres there in 1640, and on the property was ‘a Castle and Orchard, a weare and some cottages’ (Simington 1940, 200). He also owned 60 acres at Booterstowne (Batterstown), 160 acres at Cloonikinan (Cloonycavan), 170 acres at Glacke and 140 acres at Killmir in the same parish (ibid. 199-203). An illustration from 1785 shows the castle occupied with a hip roof (Price 1942, 40). This is a four storey structure (ext. dims 7.3m N-S; 6.3m E-W) with rounded corners and a projecting circular stairs tower at the SW angle. The rebuilt entrance towards the S end of the W wall is protected by a machicoulis at the parapet and leads through a destroyed lobby into the ground floor (int. dims 6.3m N-S; 3.9m E-W), whose only original feature is a double-splay light in the N wall, although the S wall is rebuilt and probably had a similar feature. The ceiling was supported on seven corbels, now removed, in both the E and W walls, and the doorway to the stairs tower and the newel stairs itself are destroyed. At the first floor under the N-S barrel-vault a pointed doorway leads from the stairs past a destroyed ante-chamber over the entrance lobby, which probably controlled a murder hole, to the single chamber which has a simple light In the N and S walls. The second storey above the vault is now inaccessible but has a narrow rectangular window with seats In the N, E and S walls, while there is a fireplace and a single light on the W wall. The ceiling was supported on corbels in the long E and W walls. There is a garderobe chamber in the thickness of the E wall at the N end. A pointed doorway leads from the stairs tower to the third floor, which has a narrow window with seats in the W and S walls, and simple narrow windows in the N and E walls. The stairs continued to the parapet, which doesn’t survive, but there is a possible gun-loop sloping downwards in this section of the stairs. 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. See the attached images taken from N (_1), W (_2), S (3) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 15 August 2015

Architectural heritage

• Inchamore Bridge, bridge, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rock-faced limestone road bridge over river, dated 1848, with ashlar string courses and copings. Date plaque with O.S. benchmark to north on the road elevation. Remains of earlier medieval bridge flanking to east and west.

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2438 (ZIP).

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

3,097,941 m² (309.79 ha, 765.52 acres)

Civil parish

Killaconnigan, and its townlands

Barony

Lune

Electoral division

Killyon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killyon electoral division: 595 people in 197 households; 90% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyadams, Ballymahon, Castlerickard, Clonee, Killyon, Kilmur, Lionsden, Portan

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.