Kiltrough
Kiltrough is a townland in the civil parish of Colp, barony of Duleek Lower, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is Coill Droch.
- Area
- 55 ha
- 136 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 2,075 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kiltrough, from 117 m² to 205,673 m² (20.57 ha, 50.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 49 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Jun 2025Conditional
the development will consist of the following: 1. Retention of variation to granted permission (Ref. no: 22632) of extension to garden room. 2. Retention and completion of outdoor kitchen room and patio to rear of existing dwelling. 3. All associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Retention · Meath County Council, 2560647
16 May 2022Conditional
1. proposed extension to rear of existing garden room which is ancillary use for the existing dwelling, 2. alterations to existing front boundary which include new stone wall and new timber gates, 3. all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22632
9 Nov 2021Conditional
the development will consist of the following: 1. Retention and completion of 4 no. partially constructed dormer windows to the east & west elevations of existing dwelling, 2. Retention and completion of partially constructed single-storey plant room to east side of existing dwelling, 3. Proposed 1 no. dormer window to the east elevation, 4. Proposed 3 no. roof lights to the north & east elevations, 5. Proposed alterations to existing north & east elevations, 6. All associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 212146
28 Oct 2021N/a
the development will consist of the following: 1. Retention and completion of alterations to existing fenestration including the introduction of new dormer windows & roof lights. 2. Retention and completion of single-story plant room to east side of existing dwelling. 3. All associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 212083
19 Feb 2021Conditional
development will consist of the following: 1. Conversion of existing garage to new 'family flat'. 2. Construction of a new single storey extension to rear and front of 'family flat' along with new single storey link from existing dwelling and alterations to existing elevations. 3. Construction of new single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling. 4. Alterations of existing elevations including new single storey porch to front of existing dwelling and replacing existing single storey flat roof with hipped roof and rooflight. 5. Construction of new single storey garage/store to side of existing dwelling. 6. Conversion of existing attic store to attic room with new dormer window to rear to existing dwelling. 7. Existing septic tank to be decommissioned and proposed new wastewater treatment system and percolation area installed. 8. All associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21317
19 Feb 2020Conditional
alterations to existing front elevation including removal of existing verandah, reconfiguration of window openings, proposed new portico to front door, new plaster & brick finish, new window opening at west elevation and all associated site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, LB200197
28 Jan 2020N/a
development will consist of alterations to existing front elevation including removal of existing verandah, reconfiguration of window openings, proposed new portico to front door, new plaster & brick finish, new window opening at west elevation and all associated site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, LB200082
27 Jun 2019N/a
the provision of a 25.5sq.m. welfare unit on the site of Kiltrough Water Tower including associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, LB190847
27 Nov 2017Conditional
the development will consist of the following: 1. Demolition of 2no. existing single storey storage/outbuildings 2. Construction of 2no. new single storey extensions to side and rear of existing dwelling 3. Convert and enclose the existing front porch to internal space 4. Alteratrions to existing dwelling including front elevation 5. Existing septic tank to be decommissioned and replaced with new wastewater treatment system & percolation area 6. All associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, LB171369
18 Jul 2017Conditional
retention of existing telecommunications installation consisting of antennas and transmission dishes for mobile telephony, associated equipment attached to Water Tower and equipment container within a fenced compound as previously granted under Plan Ref. No. SA120151
Retention · Meath County Council, LB170835
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kiltrough.
Recorded monuments
- ME020-097 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) defined by a single fosse (Wth c. 2-5m) is visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). A second fosse is attached outside at NE and can be traced NE-E-S, c. 10-20m from the defining fosse and may have formed an annexe. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 1 September 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kiltrough.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kiltrough, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3145 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kiltrough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Kiltrough · Coill Droch
- Area
- 550,488 m² (55.05 ha, 136.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Colp, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duleek Lower
- Electoral division
- St. Mary's, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 16,403 people lived in 5,342 households in the St. Mary's electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 66% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bey Beg, Colp West, Painestown, Rogerstown
- Placenames
- Kiltrough 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.