Kilriffin

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilriffin, from 844 m² to 271,647 m² (27.16 ha, 67.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
  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.

• 26 Mar 2021Conditional

  retention permission of an existing telecommunications support structure (previously granted under Plan Ref No. KA100988) together with associated ground equipment cabinets within a fenced compound

  Retention · Meath County Council, 21565

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 Kilriffin.

Recorded monuments

• ME006-062001 Hillfort
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB92.FD.37) shows cropmark of circular enclosure (diam. c. 100-110m) defined by the remains of a bank and an external ditch feature. A small circular enclosure is located at the centre of the enclosure, possibly a ring-ditch or house site. Located on the summit of Drumran Hill. It is mainly plough-levelled, but low-level earthworks may survive in the north-western segment of the enclosure and in the western segment. The enclosure is bisected by two modern field boundaries. It can also be seen on the OSI aerial images (2005). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 23 February 2010

• ME006-062002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB92.FD.37) shows cropmark of circular enclosure, probably a hillfort, defined by a bank and an external ditch (ME006-062001-). A small circular enclosure is located at the centre of the enclosure, possibly a ring-ditch or house site. Located on the summit of Drumran Hill. It is mainly plough-levelled, but low-level earthworks may survive in the north-western segment of the enclosure and in the western segment. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 23 February 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilriffin.

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 Kilriffin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Kilriffin

Area

700,113 m² (70.01 ha, 173 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcondra, and its townlands

Barony

Slane Lower

Electoral division

Drumcondra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcondra electoral division: 1,376 people in 491 households; 83% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumcondra, Druminshin, Drumsillagh, Killadden, Newstone, Sallybrook

Placenames

Kilriffin 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.