Kilrue

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilrue, from 254 m² to 1,511,566 m² (151.16 ha, 373.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 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 · 56 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 4 May 2021Conditional

  a 10 year planning permission for the construction of, and a 40 year operation and subsequent decommissioning of a development consisting of a 265.8 hectare solar farm. The proposed solar farm will consist of a series of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, mounted on steel support structures and in some areas of potential archaeological remains on concrete blocks/shoes, together with 58 no. electrical transformation enclosures, a temporary construction compound, underground cabling, inverters, CCTV poles and cameras, deer type security/boundary fencing, landscaping and biodiversity measures and all associated ancillary development works, for the purpose of generating renewable energy electricity. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with this application. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 21837

• 19 Oct 2017Conditional

  erection of a straw bedded cattle shed incorporating calving pens, covering existing cattle crush area, feed passage and all associated facilities and site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA171218

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 Kilrue.

Recorded monuments

• ME045-012 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a gently undulating landscape. This monument is depicted as a small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 15m) and described as a ‘Mound’ on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map while it is represented as a hachured feature, also described as a mound, on the 1908 edition. This was described in 1969 (SMR file) a grass-covered circular area (diam. 13m) defined by a small earthen bank and external ditch. 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. Date of upload: 10 July 2007 Amended: 17 December 2021

• ME045-079 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 8m) defined by a single continuous fosse is visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013; 21/07/2021). It is also faintly visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view (centre) from Google Earth (21/07/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 January 2022

• ME045-080 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a small subrectangular or D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) defined by single fosses or ditches and with straight sides at W and N is visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It is also faintly visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view (right) from Google Earth (21/07/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 January 2022

• ME045-081 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse is visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It is also faintly visible on OSi images (1995), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (12/07/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 January 2022

• ME045-082 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a level landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by a single fosse is visible only on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 January 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilrue · Cill Rú

Area

2,480,935 m² (248.09 ha, 613.05 acres)

Civil parish

Ratoath, and its townlands

Barony

Ratoath

Electoral division

Ratoath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ratoath electoral division: 11,894 people in 3,639 households; 84% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balfestown, Baltrasna, Cheeverstown, Fidorfe, Fleenstown Great, Grange, Harlockstown, Peacockstown, Rathcool

Placenames

Kilrue 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.