Kilgar
Townland in the civil parish of Castletowndelvin, barony of Delvin, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 187.5 ha
- 463 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 4,413 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgar, from 799 m² to 610,871 m² (61.09 ha, 150.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 19 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
19 Oct 2023Conditional
construction of a domestic garage with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360355
9 Sept 2022Conditional
(a) demolish existing pre-fabricated structure on site, (b) construct a two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage & store, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22451
22 Dec 2017Conditional
to construct a new bungalow type dwelling house, new access roadway with vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site services
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176369
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 Kilgar.
Recorded monuments
- WM008-016 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a natural hillock in gently undulating pasture-land with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM008-019----) 200m to SE. This site has been almost completely levelled, now visible only as a band of vegetation (Wth 4m). Depicted as a sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. diam. 42m N-S; 46m E-W) on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The interior has vague traces of two rectangular hut sites (WM008-016001-/016002-). Cultivation ridges aligned NNW-SSE run across the interior of the monument. A gap (Wth 4.5m) in the band of vegetation at WNW may represent an entrance. This site is clearly visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 April 2017
- WM008-016001 Hut site
Description
Situated on a natural hillock in gently undulating pasture-land with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM008-019----) 200m to SE. This site has been almost completely levelled, now visible only as a band of vegetation (Wth 4m). Depicted as a sub-rectangular shaped area on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The interior of the ringfort has vague traces of two rectangular hut sites (WM008-016001-/016002-). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 April 2017
- WM008-016002 Hut site
Description
Situated on a natural hillock in gently undulating pasture-land with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM008-019----) 200m to SE. This site has been almost completely levelled, now visible only as a band of vegetation (Wth 4m). Depicted as a sub-rectangular shaped area on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The interior of the ringfort has vague traces of two rectangular hut sites (WM008-016001-/016002-). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 April 2017
- WM008-017 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on an elevated natural rise in gently undulating pasture-land, with excellent views to NW & SE. Earthwork (WM008-018----) 270m to SE. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 25m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank and slight external fosse. The entrance at NE is represented by a gap (Wth 2.5m) and causeway (Wth 3.2m; H 0.25m) across the fosse. The interior rises towards the centre. Outside the fosse at NE is a poorly preserved earthen C-shaped bank, which forms an annexe on this side. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 April 2017
- WM008-018 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a slight elevated rise in gently undulating countryside, with excellent views in all directions. Ringfort (WM008-017----) 270m to NW. Depicted as an oval shaped enclosure on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. This site has been levelled. Now visible as an oval shaped area (approx. diam. 36m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a band of vegetation (Wth 4m). Some burnt stones visible nearby in the plough-soil. Cropmark of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 April 2017
- WM008-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a natural hillock in undulating pasture-land, with excellent views in all directions. Ringfort (WM008-016----) 200m to NW. Depicted as an oval shaped enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. This site has been levelled, now visible as a raised oval shaped area (approx. diam. 28m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by a band of vegetation (Wth 3.5m). A pair of conjoined hut sites (WM008-019001-) are visible as a cropmark in the centre of the levelled monument. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 April 2017
- WM008-019001 Hut site
Description
Situated atop natural hillock in undulating pasture-land with, with excellent views in all directions. A pair of conjoined huts (diam. of larger hut 6.2m; diam. of smaller hut 4.7m) is visible as a crop mark in the interior of a levelled ringfort (WM008-019---). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 April 2017
- WM008-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a prominent natural rise in gently undulating land, with excellent views to the NW, NNE & E. Ringfort (WM008-019---) 175m to NNW. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 18m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and external fosse. The interior rises towards the centre. A sub-rectangular shaped hut site (WM008-020001-) is visible in the S quadrant of the interior. A low earthen bank (max. Wth 2m; H 0.2m) extends across the interior from the ringfort bank at ENE towards the hut site. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 April 2017
- WM008-020001 Hut site
Description
Situated on a prominent natural rise in gently undulating land, with excellent views to the NW, NNE & E. A sub-rectangular shaped hut site (approx. dims. 5m NE-SW x 4m NW-SE) with opposing entrance gaps at E & W is visible in the S quadrant the ringfort (WM008-020---) interior. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 April 2017
- WM008-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a prominent natural rise in pasture-land with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM008-019---) 380m to WNW. Ringfort (WM008-020---) 350m to SW. A raised roughly oval shaped area (approx. dims. 30m NW-SE; 15m NE-SW) enclosed by a poorly preserved fragmentary earthen bank. The interior contains several quarry holes and upcast spoil heaps. A field fence intersects the monument from S-SW. A second field fence intersects the monument from SW-NW. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 April 2017
Architectural heritage
- Post box, 1937–1950 · Regional interest
Description
Post-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c.1940, with raised 'P&T' cipher in Gaelic/Celtic Revival script above letter slot and curved top. Attached to telegraph pole adjacent to Kilcar junction.
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
- About 1 in 10 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 Kilgar.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilgar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Kilgar
- Area
- 1,874,963 m² (187.5 ha, 463.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletowndelvin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Delvin
- Electoral division
- Clonarney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clonarney electoral division: 538 people in 174 households; 86% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Archerstown, Brownstown, Geehanstown (Co. Meath), Herbertstown (Co. Meath), Keenaghan (Co. Meath), Kingsmountain (Co. Meath)
- Placenames
- Kilgar 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.