Kilcorney
Townland in the civil parish of Rathcore, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 183 ha
- 452 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 2,676 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcorney, from 245 m² to 672,588 m² (67.26 ha, 166.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 · 65 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
7 Mar 2019Conditional
one and a half storey extension to side of existing dwelling, modifications to existing elevations and internal plan layout together with decommissioning existing percolation area and installing new polishing filter all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, TA190251
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 Kilcorney.
Recorded monuments
- ME048-049 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a broad NW-SE ridge. The cropmark of a subcircular or oval feature (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) defined by a single narrow fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (2018). The fosse feature is quite slight and no entrance is visible. It was first reported by Edward O’Regan. It is also visible on Google Earth (04/03/2017; 28/06/2018). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 December 2018
- ME048-055 Enclosure
Description
Located on a low hilltop in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by a single slight fosse feature is only visible on Google Earth (28/06/2018). It was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached image from Google Earth (28/06/2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 June 2019
Architectural heritage
- Water pump, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Cast-iron water pump, c.1870, with banded shaft, curved pumping arm and fluted neck and cap.
- Catholic Church of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Gable-fronted church, built c.1870, with five-bay side elevations of nave. Pitched slate roof, dressed limestone entrance facade with ashlar bellcote, and roughcast rendered to side and rear elevations. Pair of entrance doors, pair of pointed windows and a rose window, set in openings with limestone dressings and hood mouldings, to entrance elevation. Sacristy added to north-west gable, baptistery and confessional additions to north-east elevation. Cast-iron piers, double gates, and railings set on plinth walls with ashlar copings to site. Outbuilding to site. Graveyard to north-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).
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 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 Kilcorney.
- 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 Kilcorney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcorney
- Area
- 1,829,514 m² (182.95 ha, 452.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathcore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Electoral division
- Innfield, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Innfield electoral division: 4,858 people in 1,513 households; 79% of households own their home; 59% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Connellstown, Jordanstown, Newcastle, Posseckstown, Rathcore
- Placenames
- Kilcorney 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.