Dulane

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dulane, from 129 m² to 182,670 m² (18.27 ha, 45.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 78 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 12 Aug 2026N/a

  the development will consist of the refurbishment and extension of the existing dwelling house, demolition of the existing detached domestic garage and construction of a new detached domestic garage, decommissioning and removal of the existing septic tank, installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, relocation and upgrading of the existing site entrance to improve access and sightlines, including any necessary alterations to existing boundary treatments, together with landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2661018

• 30 Dec 2021Conditional

  the development will consist of closing up and decommissioning an existing septic tank and soak-pit and to install a new proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area along with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 212430

• 10 Dec 2021N/a

  the development will consist of closing up and decommissioning an existing septic tank and soak-pit and to install a new proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area along with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 212324

• 22 Sept 2021N/a

  to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and to install a sewage treatment system with percolation area together with all works ancillary to the overall development on site

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 211851

• 10 Sept 2021N/a

  to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and to install a sewage treatment system with percolation area together with all works ancillary to the overall development on site

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211782

• 14 Jul 2021Conditional

  the development will consist of the following: (A) to construct a part single, part one and a half storied type dwelling house and a detached domestic garage (B) To install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area (C) To make a new entrance onto the road along with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211349

• 11 Dec 2020Conditional

  planning permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and to install a sewage treatment system with percolation area together with all works ancillary to the overall development on site

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201924

• 11 Dec 2020N/a

  planning permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and to install a sewage treatment system with percolation area together with all works ancillary to the overall development on site

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201925

• 9 Dec 2020N/a

  constructing a two storied type dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area and to make a new entrance onto the road along with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201889

• 4 Dec 2020N/a

  development will consist of the following: (A) To construct a part single, part one and a half storied type dwelling house and a detached domestic garage. (B) To install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area. (C) To construct a stables building, covered dung-stead and effluent collection tank. (D) To make a new entrance onto the road along with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201866

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 Dulane.

Recorded monuments

• ME011-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a gently undulating landscape. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure described as a ‘Fort’ on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a hachured feature on the 1912 edition. It was described in 1968 (SMR file) as an overgrown circular area (diam. 35m NE-SW; 33m NW-SE) that had been quarried but the original bank (at SE: Wth of base 8.2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 2.7m) survived ESE-S-NNW and was incorporated in a road bank NNW-ESE. There was no visible fosse but the likely entrance (Wth of base 1.9m) was at NNE. The scrub had been cleared by 1995 (OSAP).   A magnetometer survey (21R0116) by I. Elliott (2021) over the southern half of the rath produced no evidence of archaeological features. Archaeological testing (21E0390) by P. D. Sweetman (2021) of the same development site c. 40m to the E of the rath at ITM (673573, 778628) identified no related material. Another magnetometer survey (21R0141) by I. Elliott (2021b) at ITM (673590, 778705), c. 20m to the NE of the rath at the closest point, had to be abandoned due to the site being heavily magnetically disturbed, resulting in wildly fluctuating magnetic readings. Archaeological testing (21E0397) of the same site by R. Meenan (2021) identified no related material or any other archaeological features. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 April 2019 Amended: 14 October 2025

• ME011-035 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated on a slight W-facing slope and c. 35m outside the W wall of the old graveyard at Dulane (ME011-037004-). In August 1961 a curved portion of a souterrain passage came light and was recorded by E. Rynne of the National Museum of Ireland. The displaced lintel had probably been opened before and the passage beneath was largely filled with earth. From the entry point the passage extended N, curving E, and S where it also curved E (total L 12m). The passage was narrow (Wth c. 0.75-0.9m; max. H 1-1.m) with the walls corbelling in slightly to the lintelled roof, and it was blocked at both ends by collapse. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 April 2019

• ME011-037 Church
  Description

  Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. St. Cairnech was the son of Ceredic or Ceretic, a British chieftain, and Cairnech arrived in Ireland soon after St. Patrick. He is associated with the Senchas Mór, a code of Brehon law. He also contributed the Míosach, probably a Calendar, which became one of the battle fetishes of the northern Uí Neill and later the O’Donnells. Its shrine is now in the National Museum of Ireland. The saint’s feasday is on 16 May, and Dulane is one of the few churches dedicated to him, so he may have founded it (O’Connell 1958, 18-23; Ó Riain 2011, 145-6). The deaths of abbots are recorded from AD 743, and in 919 the daimhliag, or great stone church, of Tuiléan was burnt by the Vikings. It was plundered again in the great year of the raids, 949, and like nearly every church in Meath it was finally plundered by Diarmaid Mac Murrough in 1171 (Cogan 1862-70, 1, 133-4; O’Connell 1958, 23-5). The reference to a stone church in 919 is generally accepted as a terminus ante quem for the Dulane church (Ó Carragáin 2010, 113). By the 13th century the church at Dulane had become parochial and the church is attached to Kells in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Cal. doc. Ire. 5, lx). Ussher (1622) describes Duleene as a ruined chapel-of-ease to Kells (Erlington 1847-64, 1, xc). According to Dopping’s Visitation (1682 5) it was out of repair since the 1640s and the graveyard was not enclosed (Ellison 1973, 9). The remains of an early church consisting of the W (ext. dim. 8.13m) and S (L 14m; H 3m) walls survive, although the W wall is deeply buried and the S wall is not complete at the E end. There are antae (Wth 0.87m; L 0.73m) at the W end of the N and S walls and the outline of antae can be traced at the E end (total L of the S wall: 17.5m) of the undivided church. The trabeate doorway (Wth 1.03-1.08m; visible H 1.25m) in the W wall has a lightly incised roll moulding, and there are the vertical marks of arrow-sharpening on the impost. The large stones of the W wall can truly be described as cyclopean. There is an inserted pointed doorway (Wth 0.97m) in the S wall with a stoup inside it. The church is at the summit of the mound of a D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.6-4.5m; int. H 0.2; ext. H 0.7m) SW-NW or a scarp (H 0.7-1m), but this obscures a wall which is visible at S (L c. 20m; H 0.3m). The graveyard was extended all round and defined anew with a masonry wall (max. dims c. 70m E-W; c. 40-65m N-S), although it may have truncated the old graveyard slightly on the N side. The headstones in the newly enclosed area date from c. 1900. Since then the graveyard has been extended to the N (dims c. 50-65m NNE-SSW; c. 60m WNW-ESE) where it is defined by cement walls. The sandstone base (basal dims 0.7m x 0.68m; H 0.67m) of a high cross with a roll moulding on the angle is in the graveyard N of the church, but a fragment of a high cross that may have belonged to it and was in the graveyard is now lost (Harbison 1992, 76). Souterrain (ME011-035----) is outside the graveyard to the W. Around 1980 a cross-slab (max. dims 0.72m x 0.48m; T 0.1m) that was found in the graveyard was moved to the locked sacristy of the Roman Catholic church of the Sacred Heart at Mullaghey (ME017-053----), c. 1.25km to the SE, for safe-keeping. It has expanded square terminals, a ring and hollow angles. Over the cross is the inscription: ÓR DO ANAM CHAID. Archaeological testing (96E0118), N and S of the old graveyard identified fosses and pits in both areas (ME011-037001-; ME011-037002-) together with two fosses extending E-W that are N of the old graveyard and which are probably part of the N section of an ecclesiastical enclosure (ME011-037003-). (Meehan 1996; 1996a; 1997) 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. See attached view from NW (05); doorway showing arrow-marks (18) and general view of doorway from W (19) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 April, 2019

• ME011-037001 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Archaeological testing (96E0118) in advance of a graveyard extension explored an area (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 30m N-S) N of the old graveyard. It sampled a NNE-SSW fosse (Wth of top c. 3m; D 1.1m) filled with a uniformly silty and stony soil that has a large clay content and some charcoal flecks cut into the gravelly subsoil. A second E-W ditch (Wth of top 2.3-3.5m; D 1.3) with stratified layers was encountered in two trenches c. 5m from the graveyard wall and parallel with it. Immediately outside this feature a larger fosse (Wth of top 4m plus; D 2.3m plus) was encountered, and both of these may be from an ecclesiastical enclosure (ME011-037003-). The graveyard extension was placed further N of the old graveyard and the archaeological features in this area are now largely preserved beneath a parking area. (Meenan 1996; 1996a; 1997) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 April, 2019

• ME011-037002 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Archaeological testing (96E0118) in advance of a graveyard extension explored an area (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 30m N-S) S of the old graveyard and encountered features in each of five NNE-SSW trenches. Amongst these is a fosse or drain (Wth of top 1.1m; D 0.4m) that might be extending E-W across the entire area and a number of pits (diam. 1.5m; D 0.6m to diam. 3m; D 0.5m). The graveyard extension was placed further N of the old graveyard and the archaeological features in that area (ME011-037001-) are now largely preserved beneath a parking area. (Meenan 1996; 1996a; 1997) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 April, 2019

• ME011-037003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Archaeological testing (96E0118) in advance of a graveyard extension explored an area (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 30m N-S) N of the old graveyard. An E-W ditch (Wth of top 2.3-3.5m; D 1.3) with stratified layers was encountered in two trenches c. 5m from the graveyard wall and parallel with it. Immediately outside this feature a larger fosse (Wth of top 4m plus; D 2.3m plus) was encountered, and both of these ditches may be from the N edge of an ecclesiastical enclosure. (Meenan 1996; 1996a; 1997) Compiled by: MIchael Moore Date of upload: 9 April, 2019

• ME011-037004 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. The early church (ME011-037----) is at the summit of the mound of a D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.6-4.5m; int. H 0.2; ext. H 0.7m) SW-NW or a scarp (H 0.7-1m), but this obscures a wall which is visible at S (L c. 20m; H 0.3m). The graveyard was extended all round and defined anew with a masonry wall (max. dims c. 70m E-W; c. 40-65m N-S), although it may have truncated the old graveyard slightly on the N side. The headstones in the newly enclosed area date from c. 1900. Since then the graveyard has been extended to the N (dims c. 50-65m NNE-SSW; c. 60m WNW-ESE) where it is defined by cement walls. The base of a high cross (ME011-037005-) is in the graveyard N of the church. Souterrain (ME011-035----) is outside the graveyard to the W. Parts of the graveyard wall, at SE and SW, collapsed as a result of hurricane Ophelia in 2017. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 22 May, 2014 Amended: 14 June, 2018

• ME011-037005 Cross - High cross
  Description

  The early church (ME011-037----) is at the summit of the mound of a D-shaped graveyard (ME011-037004-) defined by an earth and stone bank. The sandstone base (basal dims 0.7m x 0.68m; H 0.67m) of a high cross with a roll moulding on the angles is in the graveyard N of the church, but a fragment of a high cross that may have belonged to it and was in the graveyard is now lost (Harbison 1992, 76). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 July, 3014

• ME011-037006 Cross-slab
  Description

  Around 1980 a cross-slab (max. dims 0.72m x 0.48m; T 0.1m) that was found in the graveyard was moved to the sacristy of the Roman Catholic church of the Sacred Heart at Mullaghey (ME017-053----), c. 1.25km to the SE, for safe-keeping. It has expanded square terminals, a ring and hollow angles. Over the cross is the inscription: ÓR DO ANAM CHAID. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 June 2018

• ME017-043 Mound
  Description

  Situated around the base of a grass and scrub-covered knoll in an undulating low-lying landscape, with a small N-S stream curving around the feature c. 30-60m distant N-E-S. It is not depicted as an antiquity on any map but is visible as a feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: N 264, 265) and later series. This is a natural oval knoll (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 25m E-W; H 3m) with a scarp (Wth 3m; H 1m) and V-shaped silted fosse or drain (Wth 1.6m; D 0.3-0.4m) at the base of the mound. It is not an antiquity (Moore 1987). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 16 April 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Dulane, about 1 in 10 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

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

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.

• Dulane, Kells5 sales

Name

Dulane · Tuiléan

Area

927,562 m² (92.76 ha, 229.21 acres)

Civil parish

Dulane, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Maperath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

495 people lived in 173 households in the Maperath electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cakestown Glebe, Knockglass, Mountainpole or Rochfortsland, Oakleypark or Laurencetown, Whitecommons, Williamstown, Wilmount

Placenames

Dulane 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.