Kilmainham (Headfort)
Kilmainham (Headfort) is a townland in the civil parish of Kells, barony of Kells Upper, Co. Meath.
Parcel 201172
- Area
- 44,547 m² (4.45 ha, 11.01 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 209 m².
- Zoning
- P5 RA - Rural Area (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied)) The objective
- Townland
- Kilmainham (Headfort)
Planning applications on this parcel
16 Apr 2021Conditional
to construct a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance off private access road 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, 21727
27 Oct 2017N/a
the development consists of provision of a new part two storey part single storey house with associated effluent treatment system and percolation area, a new stand alone domestic garage, a new vehicular entrance to the site and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA171250
12 Oct 2017N/a
the development consists of provision of a new part two storey part single storey house with associated effluent treatment system and percolation area, a new stand alone domestic garage, a new vehicular entrance to the site and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA171193
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- ME017-088003 Timber circle
Description
Situated on a fairly level landscape. Archaeological testing (04E0917) by J. Roynane (2005) at Testing Area 10 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway identified (excavations.ie 2004:1270) archaeological material on the route of the E link road to Kells that was excavated (E003144) in February and March 2007 by Y. Whitty (2011) as Kilmainham 3 (excavations.ie 2007:1338) when an area of 5176 square meters was opened and five structures were recorded. Two structures that were probably houses and a timber circle were associated with Grooved ware. Nearby, portion of an Early Bronze Age ring-ditch was excavated, and about 50m S of the timber circle were five postholes and some pits of an Early Neolithic date. This is a subcircular feature (dims 18m N-S; 16m E-W) consisting of a double ring of postholes, although the inner ring of generally smaller postholes does not survive W-ENE, on the N side of two WNW-ESE post-medieval drains that bisect it. A wide gap (Wth 6m) at WNW may have been an entrance. Radiocarbon dating of material from four of the postholes provided a wide range of dates from 5620-5480 cal. BC (SUERC 29340) in the Mesolithic to the early medieval with 608-665 cal. AD (UBA 12084), and only one sample returned an acceptable date of 2880-2580 cal. BC (SUERC 29341) supported by the Grooved ware sherds from two of the postholes. At the centre four postholes formed a square structure (dims 3m x 3.4m) that has a shallow central pit (diam. 0.42m; D 0.11m) with some burnt bone, the only piece recognized not being human. Some sherds of Grooved ware were recovered from these features and a sample of hazelnut shell from a small pit just outside the structure provided a C14 date of 2871-2586 cal. BC (UBA 12086). Oak was the dominant or sole species recorded in the environmental samples examined. (Whitty 2011, 10-17) See the attached plans from Whitty (2011, figs 5, 9) ME017-088003-_1 Site plan; ME017-088003-_2 Plan; Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 22 March 2022
- ME017-088004 House - Neolithic
Description
Situated on a fairly level landscape. Archaeological testing (04E0917) by J. Roynane (2005) at Testing Area 10 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway identified (excavations.ie 2004:1270) archaeological material on the route of the E link road to Kells that was excavated (E003144) in February and March 2007 by Y. Whitty (2011) as Kilmainham 3 (excavations.ie 2007:1338) when an area of 5176 square meters was opened and five structures were recorded. Two structures that were probably houses and a timber circle were associated with Grooved ware. Nearby, portion of an Early Bronze Age ring-ditch was excavated, and about 50m S of the timber circle were five postholes and some pits of an Early Neolithic date. This is a rectangular structure (dims c. 3.5m NE-SW; c. 3m NW-SE) located c. 22m N of the timber circle. It has three to four postholes on each side except the NW which has none apart from the corner posts, and a porch (dims 2.2m NW-SE; 0.6m NE-SW) extends from the SE side. Four pits in the vicinity contained some burnt bone, and 50 sherds of Grooved ware from the same vessel and some lithics were recovered from the largest (dims 1.95m x 1.04m; D 0.2m). Sherds of Grooved ware were also recovered from some of the postholes. A radiocarbon date of 2855-2496 cal. BC (UBA 12093) was returned from the large pit which matched dates of 2878-2637 cal. BC (UB 12094) and 2918-2779 cal. BC (UBA 12092) from two of the postholes, but a third posthole provided a date in the Mesolithic of 5197-4913 cal. BC (UBA 12091) and must be contaminated with residual material. The environmental samples were dominated by oak followed by hazel. (Whitty 2011, 17-21) See the attached plans from Whitty (2011, figs 5, 11) ME017-088004-_1 Site plan; ME017-088004-_2 Plan; Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 March 2022
- ME017-088005 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated on a fairly level landscape. Archaeological testing (04E0917) by J. Roynane (2005) at Testing Area 10 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway identified (excavations.ie 2004:1270) archaeological material on the route of the E link road to Kells that was excavated (E003144) in February and March 2007 by Y. Whitty (2011) as Kilmainham 3 (excavations.ie 2007:1338) when an area of 5176 square meters was opened and five structures were recorded. Two structures that were probably houses and a timber circle were associated with Grooved ware. Nearby, portion of an Early Bronze Age ring-ditch was excavated, and about 50m S of the timber circle were five postholes and some pits of an Early Neolithic date. A ring-ditch (int. diam. c. 9m) was located c. 20m W of the timber circle, but only about a third of its defining ditch (Wth 0.6m; D 0.14m) was within the excavated area. It had a single fill consisting of a loose, mid-brown silty clay. There were no original internal features, although it was truncated by a WNW-ESE post-medieval ditch at S and cut by a NW-SE one. No artefacts were recovered from the ditch but a fragment of a carbonized hazelnut shell provided a C14 date of 2137-1965 cal. BC (UBA 12083), placing it in the Early Bronze Age. (Whitty 2011, 23-4) A pit (dims 2m x 1.5m; D 0.42m) with evidence of in situ burning and fills of broken bedrock, black and brown clayey silts was c. 14m to the NE and c. 7m W of the timber circle. Fragments of iron nails and iron slag from smithing were recovered from the pit and a posthole beside it provided a C14 date of 51 cal. BC to 52 cal. AD (UBA 12087) from a sample of a fruitwood. It is the only evidence of Iron Age or later activity, apart from post-medieval ditches. (Whitty 2011, 24) See the attached plans from Whitty (2011, figs 5, 13) ME017-087005-_1 Site plan; ME017-087002-_2 Plan Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 March 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 102.5 ha
- 253 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 2,813 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmainham (Headfort), from 9 m² to 450,515 m² (45.05 ha, 111.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 48 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C3E1/E3 - Strategic Employment Zones (High Technology Uses)/ Warehousing & Distribution (Office, business/technology park and related)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 1 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
12 May 2023N/a
development will consist of creating a temporary 6-metre wide site entrance from the R147 road into Headfort Golf Course for a period of 8 weeks (to be agreed with Local Authority), to facilitate access for heavy machinery carrying out works on the course. This will involve the careful excavation of an existing hedgegrow (including root ball), which will be fully restored on completion of the works. All necessary health and safety measures, including signage, will be implemented during the works
Permission · Meath County Council, 23506
25 Nov 2022Conditional
the upgrading of an existing driving range facility, to include the construction of a new 22-bay covered driving range building, 4 open-air bays, accessible toilets and golf ball processing area. The plans also include the extension of an existing car parking area, installation of a new on-site wastewater treatment system with percolation area, signage , external lighting (including range lighting), landscaping and ancillary site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 221535
16 Apr 2021Conditional
to construct a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance off private access road 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, 21727
27 Oct 2017N/a
the development consists of provision of a new part two storey part single storey house with associated effluent treatment system and percolation area, a new stand alone domestic garage, a new vehicular entrance to the site and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA171250
12 Oct 2017N/a
the development consists of provision of a new part two storey part single storey house with associated effluent treatment system and percolation area, a new stand alone domestic garage, a new vehicular entrance to the site and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA171193
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
Recorded monuments
- ME017-020 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
Situated in a slight hollow in a fairly level landscape. This is a low, grass-covered mound (diam. of base 17m NW-SE; H 0.5-0.7m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 6-8m; Wth of base 1-2.6m; ext. D 0.2-0.5m) from an outer earthen bank (Wth of base 7-9m; ext. H 0.4-0.7m). The perimeter is slightly distorted by a WNW-ESE field bank at N (max. ext. diam. 37m NW-SE). 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: 12 April 2019
- ME017-066001 Enclosure
Description
Situated in a slight S-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 25m N-S) defined by single ditches on every side except the S is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. It has an entrance gap (Wth 2m) on the E side and in the interior is a small ring-ditch (ME017-066002-). The rectangular enclosure is within the large enclosure depicted as a wood on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map but the rectangular enclosure is not recorded on any map. A circular enclosure (ME017-066003-) is c. 5m to the SE. The rectangular enclosure is faintly visible on Google Earth (02/07/2018), and it was first reported by Anthony Murphy. It was also noted by Jean Charles Caillère. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 January 2020 Amended: 10 March 2020
- ME017-066002 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated on a slight S-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape, and within the rectangular enclosure (ME017-066001-). The cropmark of a ring-ditch (diam. c. 8m) defined by a single ditch with an entrance (Wth c. 3m) at SE is only visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Blue Sky International during June 2018. A circular enclosure (ME017-066003-) is c. 10m to the SE. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 January 2020
- ME017-066003 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a slight S-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a fosse that is only traceable SW-NW and NE-SE is only visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. The ditch of the large wood that is marked on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map cuts this enclosure at NW. The rectangular enclosure (ME017-064001-) is c. 5m to the NW. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 January 2020
- ME017-084 Structure
Description
Situated in a slight NW-SE fold on a fairly level landscape. Archaeological testing (04E0917) by J. Roynane (2005) at Testing Area 10 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway identified (excavations.ie 2004:1270) archaeological material that was fully excavated (E003143) in late October and early November 2006 by D. Bayley (2011) as Kilmainham 2 (excavations.ie 2007:1337) when an area of 1600 square metres was opened and a rectangular structure was recorded. This is part of an extensive prehistoric settlement complex, the core of which is c. 300m to the E and was excavated as Kilmainham 1 in three sections. Four postholes could have formed a rectangular structure (dims c. 7.5m NE-SW; c. 2.5m NW-SE at NE to 5m NW-SE at SW). A stone bead came from one of the postholes, and the rimsherd of a coarse domestic pot together with fragments of burnt bone were recovered from another, but only a very small quantity of carbonised barley was present in environmental samples. A piece of hazel charcoal from the same context as the rimsherd yielded the C14 date 1112-921 cal. BC (UBA 12066), placing it in the Late Bronze Age. There were also two pits (diam. 1.75-1.8m; D 0.3m: diam. 1.45m; D 0.45m), the larger with as stone lining, c. 5-9m to the SE with fills containing some burnt bone and charred grains as well as crumbs of Bronze Age pottery but they had either a small quantity of cereals or none. There were seven other pits in the area, including the largest (dims 2.9m x 1m; D 0.42m) within the posts of the structure, but only one sherd of mid to late Bronze Age pottery and some crumbs of a similar ware were recovered. However, one of the pits that was sampled had seven wood species but only one carbonized grain of hulled barley that provided a C14 date of 510-387 cal. BC (UBA 12065). (Bayley 2011, 5-9) See the attached plans adapted from Bayley (2011, fig. 6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 March 2022
Architectural heritage
- Headfort House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
Description
Rubble stone demesne walls, built c.1770, with ashlar limestone piers and gates. Comprising ashlar limestone piers with carved caps and ball finials with Greek key motif, flanking pairs of wrought-iron gates.
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 Kilmainham (Headfort), 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 Kilmainham (Headfort).
- 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 Kilmainham (Headfort) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmainham (Headfort)
- Area
- 1,025,338 m² (102.53 ha, 253.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kells, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Electoral division
- Ceanannas Mór Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 4,980 people lived in 1,700 households in the Ceanannas M�r Rural electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Gardenrath, Headfort Demesne, Kilmainham, Kilmainham, Sedenrath
- Placenames
- Kilmainham (Headfort) 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.