Newrath Little

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newrath Little, from 1,435 m² to 136,146 m² (13.61 ha, 33.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Newrath Little in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Newrath Little.

Recorded monuments

• ME016-084 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on a slight N-facing slope that is in a hollow on an undulating landscape. Archaeological testing (04E0914) by S. Delaney (2005) at Testing Area 13 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway identified (excavations.ie 2004:1306) a spread of burnt stone material on the N52 Kells link-road that was completely excavated (E003153) by J. Kyle as Newrath Little 3 in March 2007 (excavations.ie 2007:1357). A rectangular trough (dims 2.03m x c. 1.56m; D 0.32m) with a flat base and a posthole at each corner had the imprint of a plank in the base. It was filled with a grey black sandy silt with burnt stone. A sample of alder charcoal from the fill returned a C14 date of 1188-937 cal. BC (UBA 11098). There were four adjacent pits (dims 0.98x 0.53m; D 0.08m to 2.32m x 1.1m; D 0.3m) with fills of burnt mound material but none is likely to have functioned as a trough. A water channel (Wth 0.7m; D 0.29m; L 7.6m plus) begins immediately N of the trough and extends beyond the excavation to the E. None of the burnt mound survives, and the area is cut by an E-W ditch c. 1m S of the trough and by a N-S narrow drain just W of it. (Kyle 2010) See the attached plan from Kyle (2010, fig. 5) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 March 2022

• ME017-075 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated in a slightly undulating landscape. Archaeological testing (04E0914) by S. Delaney (2005) at Testing Area 13 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway identified (excavations.ie 2004:1306) a spread of burnt stone material on the route of the N52 Kells link-road that was completely excavated (E003154) by Y. Whitty as Newrath Little 2 in December 2006 (excavations.ie 2007:1356). A spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 13.3m NE-SW; 5.7m NW-SE; max. T 0.1m) extended a little outside the excavated area to the NW, but its material also contributed to the fill of three troughs extending S from the mound. A circular trough (diam. 1.47-1.6m; D 0.45m) had steep sides and a flat base with a burnt stone fill. It was connected by a gully (L 1.38m; Wth 0.74m; D 0.16m) extending W to a larger gully (L 4.2m; Wth 1.2m; D 0.2m) extending NW-SE. A circular trough (diam. 1.87-1.9m; D 0.19m) is just S of the S end of this gully. A sample of hazel charcoal from the bottom of this trough provided a C14 date of 2023-1828 cal. BC (UBA 12063). The third subcircular trough (dims 1.84m x 1.4m; D 0.37m) was 3m to the SW and had a clay lining, probably with wood, around its edges. A sample of hazel charcoal from the layer above this with heat-affected stones yielded a C14 date of 1944-1771 cal. BC (UBA 12064). The sample also contained seeds of goosefoot and spurge, weeds of open marginal woodland. In the confined area (dims c. 4m E-W; c. 2m N-S) between the first trough described and the larger gully was a concentration of seven stakeholes, a gully and a small pit (diam. 0.38-0.42m; D 0.11m) that may have formed a temporary structure here. (Whitty 2010) See the attached plan from Whitty (2010, fig. 5) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 11 March 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Newrath Little.

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

Name

Newrath Little · An Ráth Nua Bheag

Area

478,515 m² (47.85 ha, 118.24 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

Calliaghstown, Newrath Big, Sheeny, Townparks

Placenames

Newrath Little 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.