Headfort Demesne

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Headfort Demesne, from 6 m² to 794,625 m² (79.46 ha, 196.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 52 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 · 111 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3E1/E3 - Strategic Employment Zones (High Technology Uses)/ Warehousing & Distribution (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.3TU - Transport and Utilities (Mixed/general water/wastewater uses)
  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
• G3H1 - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  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.

• 19 Dec 2025N/a

  (1) to construct a single storied dwelling house with a detached domestic garage including an occupational therapy room at the rear, (2) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, (3) to upgrade the existing agricultural entrance to serve the development, including new wing walls, gates and piers, (4) all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2561395

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) to construct a single storied dwelling house with a detached domestic garage including an occupational therapy room at the rear, (2) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, (3) to upgrade the existing agricultural entrance to serve the development, including new wing walls, gates and piers, (4) all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660010

• 24 Sept 2024Conditional

  a new single storey extension to the South of the existing dwelling, of area 34.8sqm comprising of new home office, gym, and link to existing dwelling, all with white rendered finish and flat roof with zinc facia, along with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460778

• 5 Apr 2024Conditional

  construct a residential development consisting of 9 No. four/five bedroom 2-storey dwelling houses and Domestic garages, with new entrance onto the Headfort Road R163 (Protected Structure), Foul Sewer connection to Sewage Treatment Plant, on site surface water attenuation area, connection to mains water supply and associated at Rabbit Hill Woods, Headfort Demesne Headfort Road (R163) Kells. The subject site forms part of a Protected Structure. The application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Significant Further Information / Revised Plans submitted with this application.

  Permission, 9 homes · Meath County Council, 2460232

• 10 Jul 2023Refused

  construction of a residential development consisting of 9 No. four/five bedroom 2-storey dwelling houses and Domestic garages, with new entrance onto the Headfort Road R163. The proposed development will include for provision of on-site surface water attenuation area, connection to existing public mains water supply and public sewer network, together with all associated site works and services at Rabbit Hill Woods, Headfort Demesne Headfort Road (R163) Kells. The subject site forms part of a Protected Structure. The application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360153

• 26 Aug 2022Conditional

  the installation of a biomass heating system and photo-voltaic solar panels within the grounds of Headfort House. Works will include installation of a new biomass boiler and external flue to the ancillary 'hanger' structure (not protected) within the grounds of Headfort House, with associated new layout of underground pipes to adjacent lands and connection to existing services of Headfort House. New surface mounted pipe routes and radiators are proposed to be installed to Headfort House internally. Works also include installation of photo-voltaic solar panels to the roof of the ancillary 'hangar' structure and connection to existing services. A new surface for lorry access is proposed to the front area of the ancillary 'hanger' structure, connecting to the existing access surface. Headfort House is a Protected Structure (NIAH Reg No. 14401713) within the Headfort Demesne Architectural Conservation Area

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221114

• 5 Aug 2022N/a

  works will include the installation of a new biomass boiler and external flue to the ancillary 'hanger' structure (not protected) within the grounds of Headfort House, with associated new layout of underground pipes to adjacent lands and connection to existing services. New surface mounted pipe routes and radiators to be installed to Headfort House internally. Works also include installation of photo-voltaic solar panels to the roof of the ancillary 'hangar' structure and connection to existing services. Headfort House is a Protected Structure (NIAH Reg No. 14401713) within the Headfort Demesne Architectural Conservation Area

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221026

• 26 Oct 2021Refused

  permission sought to construct a residential development consisting of 9 No. four/five bedroom 2-storey dwelling houses and Domestic garages, with new entrance onto the Headfort Road R163 (Protected Structure), Foul Sewer connection to Sewerage Treatment Plant and surface water attenuation area, and associated services. The application will be accompanied by Natura Impact Statement

  Permission, 9 homes · Meath County Council, 212062

• 10 Sept 2021N/a

  permission sought to construct a residential development consisting of 9 No. four/five bedroom 2-storey dwelling houses and Domestic garages, with new entrance onto the Headfort Road R163 (Protected Structure), Foul Sewer connection to Sewerage Treatment Plant and surface water attenuation area, and associated services. The application will be accompanied by Natura Impact Statement

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211771

• 4 Jan 2021Conditional

  (a) to demolish an existing habitable dwelling house, a detached domestic garage and a detached domestic store (b) to construct 2 no. detached two storied 4 bedroomed dwelling houses (c) existing on-site mains water and foul sewage supply to be re-connected to proposed house No.1 and new mains water and foul sewage supply to be connected to house no.2 (d) to form a new combined entrance onto the road to serve both new dwelling houses which will incorporate the existing site entrance (e) all ancillary site development works. This planning application is to supersede an existing grant of permission on the site ref no KA/151018

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 215

• 24 Feb 2017Conditional

  to continue the use of the existing 30 metre high lattice communication structure, carrying communication dishes and antennae within an existing 2.4 metre high fenced compound previously granted temporary permission Ref. KA111157 (An Bord Pleanala Ref. PL17.240308) at ESB Telecoms Ltd Telecommunication compound ESB Kells 38kV Substation

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA170190

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

• ME017-007 Mound
  Description

  Situated on the SW bank of a NW-SE section of the River Blackwater and on the demesne of Headford House. An eight-sided mausoleum is built on top of a mound (diam. of top c. 17m; diam. of base c. 27m E-W; c. 25m N-S; H 1.6-1.8m N-E to 3m S-W) which has a platform (dims c. 12m x 12m; H 0.8m) attached to the E. The platform raises a path to the top of the mound and the door of the mausoleum. The mound was probably built for the mausoleum. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 April, 2019

• ME017-065001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A group of six ring-ditches situated in a slight hollow on a fairly level landscape are placed c. 100m apart on land that was once part of the demesne of Headfort House. They are only visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. This is a circular feature (diam. c. 5m) defined by a single fosse that could have an entrance at W. The complex was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 January 2020

• ME017-065002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A group of six ring-ditches situated in a slight hollow on a fairly level landscape are placed c. 100m on land that was once part of the demesne of Headfort House. They are only visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. This is a circular feature (diam. c. 15m) defined by a single continuous fosse. The complex was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 January 2020

• ME017-065003 Enclosure
  Description

  A group of six ring-ditches situated in a slight hollow on a fairly level landscape are placed c. 100m apart on land that was once part of the demesne of Headfort House. They are only visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. This perfectly circular feature (diam. c. 25m) is defined by a continuous fosse, and it could have a pit at its centre. The perimeter is cut at the E edge by the cropmark of a NE-SW drain that is represented as the SE boundary of a wood on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. The complex was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 January 2020

• ME017-065004 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A group of six ring-ditches situated in a slight hollow on a fairly level landscape are placed c. 100m apart on land that was once part of the demesne of Headfort House. They are only visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. This is a circular feature (diam. c. 12m) defined by a single fosse feature that could have an entrance (Wth c. 3m) at W. The complex was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced aerial view (L) from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 January 2020

• ME017-065005 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A group of six ring-ditches situated in a slight hollow on a fairly level landscape are placed c. 100m apart on land that was once part of the demesne of Headfort House. They are only visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. This cropmark of a perfectly circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) is defined by a continuous fosse. The complex was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced view (R) from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 January 2020

• ME017-065006 Enclosure
  Description

  A group of six ring-ditches situated in a slight hollow on a fairly level landscape are placed c. 100m apart on land that was once part of the demesne of Headfort House. They are visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. This is a subcircular feature (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single continuous fosse feature (Wth c. 2m). The complex was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 27 January 2020

• ME017-096 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a slight S-facing slope on land that was once within Boxhill Wood on the demesne of Headfort House. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a single fosse is faintly visible on Google Earth (07/05/2017). It was first reported by Mary Tunney. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (07/05/2017) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 July 2022

Architectural heritage

• Headfort House, stables, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Multiple-bay two-storey stables, built c.1770, with pedimented integral carriage arches. Replacement pitched slate roofs with yellow brick chimneystacks. Rubble stone walls. Ashlar limestone or yellow brick dressings to openings. Ashlar limestone dressings to the integral carriage arches. Projecting round tower to south-west range. Bellcote and clock over carriage arch to south-east elevation. Pair of curved walls with ashlar copings having pair of central placed round towers to courtyard, set around a formal garden and water feature.

• Headfort House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of channelled ashlar limestone gate piers surmounted by urns, built c.1770, flanked by pedestrian openings with channelled limestone surrounds. Set in rubble stone demesne walls. Single and pair of wrought-iron gates. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to site.

• Headfort House, worker's house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of six terraced houses, built c.1850, with central pedimented breakfront. Pitched slate roofs with yellow brick chimneystacks, cast-iron vents and cast-iron finials. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls with yellow brick dressings to the openings. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Timber battened doors with toplights. Clock to gabled breakfront.

• Headfort House, outbuilding, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of outbuildings, flanking a screen wall with an integral carriage-arch, built c.1770. Rubble stone walls, with ashlar limestone dressings to paired segmental-arched openings and to integral carriage arch. Single-pitched slate roofs.

• Headfort House, stables, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Rubble stone boundary walls to courtyard, built c.1770, enclosing ranges of buildings c.1870. Two ranges of stables to the south and east and two open sided ranges to the north and west. Single-pitched slate roofs. Cast-iron columns to open sided ranges. Fixed timber windows and timber battened doors to ranges of buildings. Outbuildings to site.

• Headfort House, bridge, 1770–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch road bridge over river, built c.1776. Rubble stone walls, with ashlar limestone parapets, copings and string courses. Triangular cutwaters to upstream and downstream elevations.

• Headfort House, country house, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eleven-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c.1770, with three-bay central and two-bay terminating breakfronts. Flanked by two-storey wings, Single-storey wing over basement to the east and two-storey wing to the west. Now in use as preparatory school. Hipped slate roof with ashlar limestone chimneystacks and parapets. Ashlar limestone walls. Timber sash windows with stone sills and carved limestone architraves. Carved stone doorcase with engaged columns supporting pediment above.

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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Headfort Demesne · Diméin Cheanannais

Area

3,912,845 m² (391.28 ha, 966.89 acres)

Civil parish

Kells, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Ceanannas Mór Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ceanannas M�r Rural electoral division: 4,980 people in 1,700 households; 75% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balreask, Cakestown Glebe, Gardenrath, Grange Glebe, Kilmainham (headfort), Maudlin, Mullaghey, Normanstown Or Norbrinstown, Sedenrath, Townparks

Placenames

Headfort Demesne 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.