Kilbeg Upper

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbeg Upper, from 41 m² to 325,690 m² (32.57 ha, 80.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 61 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 17 May 2022Conditional

  (1) the retention of a domestic garage for the storage of a camper van, garden and household equipment (2) a domestic shed for the storage of solid fuel (3) all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22635

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 Kilbeg Upper.

Recorded monuments

• ME011-019 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Situated on the remnant of an esker ridge that extends off to the NE. The motte is a subcircular, flat-topped and grass-covered earthen mound (dims of top 14m NNE-SSW; 8m WNW-ESE; dims of base 44m NNE-SSW; 26m 37m WNW-ESE; H 7m at NE to 12m at SW) with a fosse surviving (at NNW: Wth of top 7m; ext. D 1.3m) W-NNW. The motte is connected by a causeway to a raised circular bailey (diam. 14m NE-SW) to the NE defined by scarps (H 2.5m at W to 4m at NE). The parish church of Kilbeg ME011-020----) is c. 70m to the ENE. 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: 7 June 2016 Amended: 15 December 2022

• ME011-020 Church
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape with a small NW-SE stream c. 50m to the N. A church at Kilbey is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Cal. doc. Ire. 5, 260). Ussher (1622) describes the church and chancel at Kilbegge as ruinous (Erlington 1847-64, 1, xc). According to Dopping’s Visitation (1682-3) the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Kilbeg had been in disrepair since 1641, although it was enclosed (Ellison 1973, 8). The medieval parish church is within a D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 45m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by a slight bank (int. H c. 0.1 0.4m; ext. H 1 1.4m) that is retained by an external stone-cladding NW-E-SW. The original perimeter is absent SW-NW where the graveyard has been extended (dims c. 40 45m E-W; c. 30m N-S) to a N-S public road. The church is represented by the foundations of an undivided nave and chancel structure (ext. dims 15m E-W; 7.97m N-S; int. dims 12.84m E-W; 5.7m N-S) reduced to the foundations (Wth 0.9-1.25m; H 0.2-0.4m) of clay-bonded walls. The E end of the S wall is re-built inside its original line creating a narrower E end (int. dim. 4.5m at E). No features are visible, not even an entrance. There is a sandstone cross-slab (dims 0.46m x 0.13m; H 1.08m) with a ringed cross in relief occupying its E face in the graveyard. The design is composed of raised double lines (Wth of shaft, arms 11-12cm) with the double lines of the ring (ext. diam. 0.26m; int. diam. 0.16m) connecting the arms and shaft. There is a record of a sundial (dims c. 0.42m x 0.35m) from the graveyard made by G. Du Noyer (1817-1869) that is probably older than the inscription that is fitted awkwardly around it. The inscription reads: (PR)AY FOR TERRENCE BENNET 1706, and his sketch of the church shows it with a nave and chancel. See this web-page accessed on 14/06/2022: https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2020741/object_DP_17481837 The motte and bailey (ME011-019----) is c. 70m to the WSW. Archaeological testing NW of the graveyard produced some trenches (Wth of base 0.4-0.6m) cut into the subsoil overlain by a substantial wall with a shallow ditch on its N side. A large amount of slag and medieval pottery was recovered. (Meenan 1991) 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: 11 December, 2014

• ME011-020001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape with a small NW-SE stream c. 50m to the N. The medieval parish church of Kilbeg (ME011-020----) is within a D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 45m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by a slight bank (int. H c. 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 1-1.4m) that is retained by an external stone cladding NW-E-SW. The original perimeter is absent SW-NW where the graveyard has been extended (dims c. 40-45m E-W; c. 30m N-S) to a N-S public road. The cross-slab (ME011-020002-) is in the graveyard and there is a record by G. Du Noyer (1817-69) of a sundial (ME011-020003-) that is no longer present. Archaeological testing (E000622) by R. Meenan (excavations.ie 1991:103) NW of the graveyard produced evidence of some trenches (Wth of base 0.4-0.6m) cut into the subsoil overlain by a substantial wall with a shallow ditch on its N side. A large amount of slag and medieval pottery was recovered. (Meenan 1991) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 May, 2014 Amended: 30 July, 2014, 14 June 2022, 1 August 2023

• ME011-020002 Cross-slab
  Description

  Located in the graveyard of Kilbeg parish church (ME012-020----). This is a sandstone cross-slab (dims 0.46m x 0.13m; H 1.08m) with a ringed cross in relief occupying its E face. The design is composed of raised double lines (Wth of shaft, arms 11-12cm) with the double lines of the ring (ext. diam. 0.26m; int. diam. 0.16m) connecting the arms and shaft. See the attached image. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 July, 2014

• ME011-020003 Sundial
  Description

  There is a record of a sundial (dims c. 0.42m x c. 0.35m) from the graveyard made by G. Du Noyer (1817-1869) and the inscribed sundial is probably older than the inscription that is fitted awkwardly around it. The inscription reads: (PR)AY FOR TERRENCE BENNET 1706. See this web-page accessed on 14/06/2022: https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2020741/object_DP_17481837 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 June 2022

• ME011-021 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. This feature is not depicted on any map but is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: N 687 / 8) and on later images (OSAP: 2005). This is a raised, circular and grass-covered platform (diam. of top 26m N-S) defined by a steep scarp (at W: H 2m) with a tail extending to the E and a ramp on the W side. Archaeological testing (11E0040) by C. Duffy partly over the area produced no archaeological material, leading to the conclusion that it might be natural (excavations.ie 2011:484).  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

• ME011-023 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a broad low hill in an undulating landscape. There is local knowledge of the discovery in digging house foundations of deposits of black silty clay (Wth c. 1.5m; D c. 1.5m) beneath a hard-packed clay at two points. 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: 10 July 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Kilbeg Upper, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kilbeg Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Kilbeg Upper · An Chill Bheag Uachtarach

Area

1,264,025 m² (126.4 ha, 312.35 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeg, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Lower

Electoral division

Newtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,032 people lived in 337 households in the Newtown electoral division. 76% of households owned 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, Carlanstown, Farranalcock, Glebe, Glenrath, Gravelstown, Kilbeg Lower, Staholmog

Placenames

Kilbeg Upper 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.