Newrath Big

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newrath Big, from 26 m² to 99,876 m² (9.99 ha, 24.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 53 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 13 Nov 2020Refused

  the development will consist of part two storey, part single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and sand polishing filter, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201699

• 31 Aug 2018Conditional

  erection of single-storey dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage, private entrance, proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area to include for all ancillary site works. This is a change of house type from that previously granted under KA/160808 - Extension of Duration of Planning Permission Ref. KA/11097, To construct dwellinghouse, new site entrance, waste water treatment unit and percolation area

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA181003

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 Big.

Recorded monuments

• ME016-023001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a fairly low N-S spur at the S base of the Hill of Lloyd. The entrance to the complex souterrain (ME016-023002-) is at the NW edge of a rath (int. diam. c. 36m N-S; c. 36m E-W) that is visible as the cropmark of a continuous fosse (Wth c. 1-3m) only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. The rath (ME016-055001-) and souterrain (ME016-055----) are c. 170m to the ESE. (Sweetman 1975) 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: 26 February 2019 Amended: 27 November 2019

• ME016-023002 Souterrain
  Description

  Located on a fairly low N-S spur at the S base of the Hill of Lloyd. A souterrain at Newrath Big was known from c. 1845 (Hanley 1967, 60) when it was closed but it was re-opened in the 1890s (Healy 1891) and fully surveyed in the 1975 (Sweetman 1975). It consists of a lintelled passage (L 9.8m N-S) which terminates at the S end in a beehive chamber (diam. 3m; H 2m) that was largely filled with stones. The floor and the roof of the passage stepped down (H 0.6; 0.8m) 5m from the entrance to the chamber and the passage curves to the NE N of this point. At its N end this passage makes a hair-pin turn into an E passage (L 6m plus NNE-SSW) that extends southwards. The roof and floor of this passage also stepped down (1m; 0.7m) close to the junction with the W passage, but its S end is blocked by collapse. The present entrance is at the NW edge of rath (ME016-023001-). The rath (ME055001-) and souterrain (ME016-055----) are c. 170m to the ESE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987), No. 442. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 February 2019 Amended: 27 November 2019

• ME016-055 Souterrain
  Description

  Located on a low N-S spur at the S base of the Hill of Lloyd. A complex souterrain, the entrance to which is c. 10m inside the boundary of a rath (ME016-055001-) at W, was discovered in May 1998 and recorded fully (Clinton and Manning 2000). It consists of three passages and a beehive chamber. A halfpenny of George II and some slipware was found in one of the passages, and these indicate an earlier discovery in the eighteenth century. From the present entrance, which is also the original earth-cut drop-entrance shaft (D c. 2m), a lintelled opening (Wth 0.74-0.98m; H 0.85m) entered the curved angle of a passage that runs SE (Wth at floor 1.95-2m; Wth at roof 0.75-1.2m; max. H 1.5m), but it is blocked (L 3m plus) by collapse. From the entrance a second passage also runs SSW (L 8.5m; max. Wth at floor 1.75m; Wth at roof 1m; max. H 1.48m) and then NW (L 9m; max. Wth at floor 1.4m; Wth at roof 0.92m; max. H 1.4m). Towards the end of this passage the roof drops and a dwarf wall (H 0.5m) on the floor allows access through a narrow opening (Wth 1m; H 0.6m) to a shaft that rises through the passage roof to a small upper chamber (dims 1.1m NW-SE; 0.8m NE-SW; H 1m). This chamber opened directly at NW onto a second, narrower and higher passage (Wth at floor c. 0.85m; Wth at roof c. 0.45-0.55m; H c. 1.25m) that runs NNE (L c. 16m; ) to a beehive chamber. There is a cupboard (Wth 0.4m; H 0.4m; D 0.65m) at the S end of the W wall of this passage. A sill marks the entrance to the subcircular beehive chamber (dims of base 4.6m E-W; 4m N-S), the walls of which corbel in (max. H 3.12m) from the floor and which is closed by two stones. There is an air-vent (Wth 0.32m; H 0.15-0.2m; L 1.3m plus) on the N side of the beehive chamber. The rath (ME016-023001-) and souterrain (ME016-023002-) are c. 170m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 26 February 2019

• ME016-055001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a low N-S spur at the S base of the Hill of Lloyd. The opening to the souterrain (ME016-055----) is c. 10m inside the perimeter of a rath at W. The rath is visible as the cropmark of an enclosure (diam. c. 55-60m) defined by a single ditch feature that is visible on Google Earth (24/03/2017; 07/05/2017; OSAP 2005). An entrance to the enclosure is not visible. The rath (ME016-023001-) and souterrain (ME016-023002-) are c. 170m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 February 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Big.

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

Name

Newrath Big · An Ráth Nua Mhór

Area

617,332 m² (61.73 ha, 152.55 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

Commons of Lloyd, Newrath Little, Sheeny, Townparks

Placenames

Newrath Big 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.