# Kilrue, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ratoath, barony of Ratoath, Co. Meath; in Irish Cill Rú. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,480,935 m² (248.09 ha, 613.05 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 33,922 m² (3.39 ha, 8.38 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ratoath, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/ratoath.md - Barony: Ratoath - Electoral division: Ratoath, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37985 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160981 - Centre: latitude 53.480122, longitude -6.415862 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilrue, from 254 m² to 1,511,566 m² (151.16 ha, 373.52 acres); 43 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 135203: 1,511,566 m² (151.16 ha, 373.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/135203.md - Parcel 194884: 437,401 m² (43.74 ha, 108.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/194884.md - Parcel 2518125: 182,598 m² (18.26 ha, 45.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2518125.md - Parcel 209444: 141,052 m² (14.11 ha, 34.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209444.md - Parcel 195764: 95,597 m² (9.56 ha, 23.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/195764.md - Parcel 143096: 37,543 m² (3.75 ha, 9.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/143096.md - Parcel 210176: 33,922 m² (3.39 ha, 8.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/210176.md - Parcel 150027: 20,468 m² (2.05 ha, 5.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/150027.md - Parcel 201968: 4,280 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/201968.md - Parcel 159089: 3,119 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/159089.md - Parcel 213951: 2,518 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/213951.md - Parcel 137049: 2,093 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/137049.md - Parcel 214541: 254 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/214541.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath; 56 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/meath-adopted-county-development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 4 May 2021, Meath County Council 21837: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/21837/0 - 19 Oct 2017, Meath County Council RA171218: Conditional. Permission. erection of a straw bedded cattle shed incorporating calving pens, covering existing cattle crush area, feed passage and all associated facilities and site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/RA171218/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilrue. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - ME045-012: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME045-012----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME045-079----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME045-080----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME045-081----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME045-082----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilrue. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/meath/kilrue.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/kilrue.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/kilrue.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Kilrue with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Balfestown: https://everytownland.com/meath/balfestown.md - Baltrasna: https://everytownland.com/meath/baltrasna-160182.md - Cheeverstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/cheeverstown.md - Fidorfe: https://everytownland.com/meath/fidorfe.md - Fleenstown Great: https://everytownland.com/meath/fleenstown-great.md - Grange: https://everytownland.com/meath/grange-160810.md - Harlockstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/harlockstown-160846.md - Peacockstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/peacockstown.md - Rathcool: https://everytownland.com/meath/rathcool.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/meath/kilrue - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/kilrue