Begrath

174 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Begrath, from 13 m² to 193,659 m² (19.37 ha, 47.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 55 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 · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 13 Feb 2026Refused

  Retention permission and full permission for: 1) Retention permission of existing single storey dwelling house as laid out and constructed; 2) Permission for upgrading specification to roof covering & external wall finishes; 3) Installation of new Wastewater Treatment System, stormwater drainage system and all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660070

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  Permission for dwelling house , waste water treatment system and percolation area , entry to site via existing agricultural gate , access lane to remainder of agricultural lands and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560268

• 18 Jul 2024Conditional

  Permission for proposed detached double garage ancillary to existing dwelling house and proposed single storey structure to accommodate 3 no. small vintage tractors together with all associated site works *Significant Further Information Received 24/10/2024 - Revised Site Boundaries*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 24125

• 24 Jul 2023Refused

  Retention of cattle shed, access roadway and modified entrance onto public roadway

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2360238

• 6 Apr 2023N/a

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 18291 - Permission for proposed single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling house and domestic store/outbuilding incorporating a granny flat, works will include demolition of part of the rear domestic store/outbuilding and all other associated site works

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23176

• 21 Jul 2022Refused

  Retention and Permission: Retention is sought for 1. existing single storey dwelling house and site layout as laid out and constructed. 2. Existing waste water treatment system servicing dwelling house as laid out and constructed. Full permission is sought for alteration works to existing shared vehicle access entrance and neighbouring roadside boundaries to provide upgraded sight visibility and all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22582

• 11 Oct 2021Conditional

  Permission for a new 170.1sqm two storey extension to side of the existing dwelling and retention permission for the existing 68.3sqm two storey extension to the rear and any ancillary site works. Works now include upgrading the existing wastewater treatment system and soakaway *Significant Further Information Received on 03/03/2022*

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 211264

• 24 Aug 2021N/a

  retention permission and permission for development that will consist of a new 170.1sqm two storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling and retention permission for the existing 6.83sqm two storey extension to the rear and ancillary site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 211058

• 15 Feb 2021Refused

  Retention permission for a cattle shed and access roadway

  Retention · Louth County Council, 21138

• 1 Jul 2020Conditional

  Retention permission for revised site boundaries including entrance gate, location of dwelling and septic tank on site, alterations to elevations of dwelling original granted permission 98/582, detached domestic garage including all associated site works. **Significant Further Information received 12/02/2021**

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20466

• 22 Apr 2020Conditional

  Permission for a single storey extension to front and side of existing single storey dwelling house together with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20298

• 13 Mar 2020Refused

  Permission for development will consist of the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20184

• 28 Jan 2020N/a

  Permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2051

• 19 Dec 2019N/a

  Permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 191086

• 12 Feb 2019N/a

  Permission for development to consist of the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 1988

• 21 Dec 2018N/a

  The development will consist of the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 181075

• 20 Apr 2018Conditional

  Permission for proposed single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling house and domestic store/outbuilding incorporating a granny flat, works will include demolition of part of the rear domestic store/outbuilding and all other associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18291

• 13 Sept 2017Conditional

  Permission to upgrade existing septic tank and percolation area to Klargestor bio efficient pumped waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17680

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 Begrath.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Begrath.

Architectural heritage

• Halfway House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby-entry formerly thatched house, built c. 1820, now disused. Projecting lean-to entrance porch and outshot to east elevation, attached to outbuilding to south. Pitched corrugated-iron roof, hipped to north, red brick corbelled chimneystack, cast-iron gutters. Lime-washed random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings, lime-washed reveals, limestone sills, painted timber one-over-one and two-over-two sliding sash windows, c. 1900; timber casement, c. 1950, to east elevation north. Square-headed door opening to projecting porch, painted timber vertically-sheeted door, c. 1950. Farmyard to south with single and two-storey lime-washed and stone outbuildings, c. 1800-1870, forming two parallel ranges east and west; cobbled yard to east, single-bay single-storey lime-washed outbuilding and wrought-iron gate; house set at angle of T junction with roads to west and north.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Begrath.

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 Begrath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Begrath · Beagráth

Area

2,116,112 m² (211.61 ha, 522.9 acres)

Civil parish

Tullyallen, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Monasterboice, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monasterboice electoral division: 1,445 people in 491 households; 93% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balgatheran, Coolfore, Hurcle (Co. Meath), Mellifont, Starinagh (Co. Meath), Tullyallen

Placenames

Begrath 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.