Kilmainham

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmainham, from 39 m² to 130,912 m² (13.09 ha, 32.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Kilmainham in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

• ME017-023 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Land at Kilmainhambeg in Kells parish was a grange or out-farm of the Knights Hospitallers of St James at Kilmainham in Dublin (DU018-020285-), which is not to be confused with their preceptory at Kilmainhamwood (ME005-028----). The grange was surrendered in 1541 (White 1943, 111-2), but the precise location of its caput or centre is not known, although it could be at this location. A gabled house at Kilmainham (88) is depicted on the Down Survey barony and parish maps of Telltown parish in Kells barony and in this vicinity (http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/). According to the terrier (commentary) of the map Nicholas Barnwall of Turvey, Richard Ledwitch of Cookstown, Robert Beg of Navan, and Patrick Barnwall of Beymore owned the entire townland, but according to the Civil Survey (1654-6) they owned only 248 acres there in 1640 and the house is not mentioned in either document (Simington 1940, 297). It is described as an ‘Old Castle’ in gothic script on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on the flood-plain of the River Blackwater c. 240m SW of where the river turns from N-S to W-E. Two opposed corners of a building (ext. dims c. 9m NE-SW; c. 8.2m NW-SE) survive separated by the NE-SW demesne wall of Headford, with a corner fireplace at the W angle and evidence of a doorway on the SE wall close to the E angle at the ground floor. The walls are rebated for the first and second floors, and there is evidence of a window embrasure on the SE wall at the first floor. A parapet has evidence of long narrow slits, now blocked. The building was conserved at some time probably because it is in view of Headford House, c. 1.3km to the N, on the other side of the river. The house is in the centre of the field system (ME017-024----) and probably contemporary with it. 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 revised upload: 22 June 2016

• ME017-024 Field system
  Description

  Situated on the flood-plain of the River Blackwater, on the S bank. An area of about 8.5 ha (c. 21 acres) contains small rectangular fields (dims c. 40m x. c. 30m) defined by banks (Wth 3-5m; max. H 0.6m) and fosses or hollow-ways (Wth c. 5-10m), or scarps (H 0.5-2m). A mound (diam. 14m E-W; 12m N-S; H 1m) is incorporated into the NE angle of one field. An aerial photograph (CUCAP: ASV 66) shows some of the fields as cropmark features defined by banks with ditches on either side. The stone house (ME017-023----) is at the centre of the system and is probably contemporary with it. The fields are so regular that it is possible that it represents a designed landscape associated with the house. A bank (L c. 80m; Wth of top 4.5m; H at S 1.4m) extending NW from the house has a hollow way (Wth of top 10m; D at S 1m) on its S 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 revised upload: 22 June 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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.

• Kilmainham, Kells13 sales

Name

Kilmainham

Area

153,327 m² (15.33 ha, 37.89 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

Kilmainham, Kilmainham (headfort), Sedenrath

Placenames

Kilmainham 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.