Horath
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbeg, barony of Kells Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 164.8 ha
- 407 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 16,398 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Horath, from 47 m² to 225,874 m² (22.59 ha, 55.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 74 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Aug 2026N/a
(1) Constructing a single story dwelling and a detached domestic garage (2) Installing a proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area (3) Forming a new entrance onto the public road (4) All ancillary site works (5) Temporary permission for the erection of a mobile home, to live onsite during construction of the proposed dwelling but not exceeding 4 years and on completion of the proposed dwelling, the removal of the mobile home
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2661009
7 Nov 2025Refused
(1) Constructing a story and a half dormer dwelling and a detached domestic garage (2) Installing a proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area (3) Forming a new entrance onto the public road (4) All ancillary site works (5) Temporary permission for the erection of a mobile home, to live onsite during construction of the proposed dwelling but not exceeding 4 years and on completion of the proposed dwelling, the removal of the mobile home. Significant Further Information/Revised Plans submitted on this application.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561209
17 Oct 2024Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of a horse walker and lunge pen to rear of agricultural yard. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 2460862
16 Mar 2022Conditional
(1) take down existing workshop on site (2) construct a family flat extension to side of dwelling house (3) de-commission existing septic tank and install a new packaged waste water treatment unit and percolation system (4) retention permission for the temporary use of existing mobile home for a period of one year together with all works ancillary to the overall development on site
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22347
24 Jul 2020Refused
planning permission for the following development: (1) take down part of existing shed, (2) construct a granny flat extension to side of dwelling house, (3) de-commission existing septic tank and install new packaged waste water treatment unit and percolation system together with all associated site works, (4) retention permission for the temporary use of existing mobile home for a period of two years on site. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, KA200994
23 Dec 2019Conditional
planning permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and install a sewage treatment system with percolation area together with all associated site development works on site
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA191795
8 Aug 2019Conditional
constructing a one and a half storied type dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, installing a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area and to upgrade an existing agricultural entrance onto the road to serve the development along with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA191048
2 Jun 2017N/a
planning permission to construct a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and install proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation areas on site
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA170618
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Horath.
Recorded monuments
- ME011-008 Fulacht fia
Description
Located on level ground with a small NW-SE canalised stream c. 10m to the NE. This is a small kidney-shaped and grass-covered mound (dims 9m N-S; 7m E-W; H 0.4m) with an indentation on the W side. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Horath.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Horath.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Horath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Horath
- Area
- 1,648,189 m² (164.82 ha, 407.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbeg, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Lower
- Electoral division
- Newtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Newtown electoral division: 1,032 people in 337 households; 76% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardlonan, Kilbeg Lower, Moat, Newrath, Rathmanoo, Robertstown
- Placenames
- Horath 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.