Kilmainham (headfort)

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmainham (headfort), from 9 m² to 450,515 m² (45.05 ha, 111.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 · 48 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 · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 12 May 2023N/a

  development will consist of creating a temporary 6-metre wide site entrance from the R147 road into Headfort Golf Course for a period of 8 weeks (to be agreed with Local Authority), to facilitate access for heavy machinery carrying out works on the course. This will involve the careful excavation of an existing hedgegrow (including root ball), which will be fully restored on completion of the works. All necessary health and safety measures, including signage, will be implemented during the works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23506

• 25 Nov 2022Conditional

  the upgrading of an existing driving range facility, to include the construction of a new 22-bay covered driving range building, 4 open-air bays, accessible toilets and golf ball processing area. The plans also include the extension of an existing car parking area, installation of a new on-site wastewater treatment system with percolation area, signage , external lighting (including range lighting), landscaping and ancillary site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221535

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance off private access road and to install a sewage treatment system with percolation area together with all works ancillary to the overall development on site

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21727

• 27 Oct 2017N/a

  the development consists of provision of a new part two storey part single storey house with associated effluent treatment system and percolation area, a new stand alone domestic garage, a new vehicular entrance to the site and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA171250

• 12 Oct 2017N/a

  the development consists of provision of a new part two storey part single storey house with associated effluent treatment system and percolation area, a new stand alone domestic garage, a new vehicular entrance to the site and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA171193

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

• ME017-020 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated in a slight hollow in a fairly level landscape. This is a low, grass-covered mound (diam. of base 17m NW-SE; H 0.5-0.7m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 6-8m; Wth of base 1-2.6m; ext. D 0.2-0.5m) from an outer earthen bank (Wth of base 7-9m; ext. H 0.4-0.7m). The perimeter is slightly distorted by a WNW-ESE field bank at N (max. ext. diam. 37m NW-SE). 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: 12 April 2019

• ME017-066001 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in a slight S-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 25m N-S) defined by single ditches on every side except the S is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. It has an entrance gap (Wth 2m) on the E side and in the interior is a small ring-ditch (ME017-066002-). The rectangular enclosure is within the large enclosure depicted as a wood on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map but the rectangular enclosure is not recorded on any map. A circular enclosure (ME017-066003-) is c. 5m to the SE. The rectangular enclosure is faintly visible on Google Earth (02/07/2018), and it was first reported by Anthony Murphy. It was also noted by Jean Charles Caillère. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 January 2020 Amended: 10 March 2020

• ME017-066002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a slight S-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape, and within the rectangular enclosure (ME017-066001-). The cropmark of a ring-ditch (diam. c. 8m) defined by a single ditch with an entrance (Wth c. 3m) at SE is only visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Blue Sky International during June 2018. A circular enclosure (ME017-066003-) is c. 10m to the SE. It 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

• ME017-066003 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight S-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a fosse that is only traceable SW-NW and NE-SE is only visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. The ditch of the large wood that is marked on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map cuts this enclosure at NW. The rectangular enclosure (ME017-064001-) is c. 5m to the NW. It 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

• ME017-084 Structure
  Description

  Situated in a slight NW-SE fold on a fairly level landscape. Archaeological testing (04E0917) by J. Roynane (2005) at Testing Area 10 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway identified (excavations.ie 2004:1270) archaeological material that was fully excavated (E003143) in late October and early November 2006 by D. Bayley (2011) as Kilmainham 2 (excavations.ie 2007:1337) when an area of 1600 square metres was opened and a rectangular structure was recorded. This is part of an extensive prehistoric settlement complex, the core of which is c. 300m to the E and was excavated as Kilmainham 1 in three sections. Four postholes could have formed a rectangular structure (dims c. 7.5m NE-SW; c. 2.5m NW-SE at NE to 5m NW-SE at SW). A stone bead came from one of the postholes, and the rimsherd of a coarse domestic pot together with fragments of burnt bone were recovered from another, but only a very small quantity of carbonised barley was present in environmental samples. A piece of hazel charcoal from the same context as the rimsherd yielded the C14 date 1112-921 cal. BC (UBA 12066), placing it in the Late Bronze Age. There were also two pits (diam. 1.75-1.8m; D 0.3m: diam. 1.45m; D 0.45m), the larger with as stone lining, c. 5-9m to the SE with fills containing some burnt bone and charred grains as well as crumbs of Bronze Age pottery but they had either a small quantity of cereals or none. There were seven other pits in the area, including the largest (dims 2.9m x 1m; D 0.42m) within the posts of the structure, but only one sherd of mid to late Bronze Age pottery and some crumbs of a similar ware were recovered. However, one of the pits that was sampled had seven wood species but only one carbonized grain of hulled barley that provided a C14 date of 510-387 cal. BC (UBA 12065). (Bayley 2011, 5-9) See the attached plans adapted from Bayley (2011, fig. 6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 March 2022

Architectural heritage

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

  Rubble stone demesne walls, built c.1770, with ashlar limestone piers and gates. Comprising ashlar limestone piers with carved caps and ball finials with Greek key motif, flanking pairs of wrought-iron gates.

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 (headfort).

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 Kilmainham (headfort) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Kilmainham (headfort)

Area

1,025,338 m² (102.53 ha, 253.37 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

Gardenrath, Headfort Demesne, Kilmainham, Kilmainham, Sedenrath

Placenames

Kilmainham (headfort) 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.