Annagor
Townland in the civil parish of Kilsharvan, barony of Duleek Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 120.6 ha
- 298 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 3,314 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Annagor, from 34 m² to 457,552 m² (45.76 ha, 113.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 · 45 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
13 Jan 2026N/a
permission is sought for the continued extraction and processing (drilling, blasting, crushing and screening of rock using mobile plant) of the existing rock quarry and related ancillary buildings, existing site entrance and haul road, and facilities (permitted under ABP Ref. PL17.217766 (MCC Reg. Ref. SA/50073)). The quarry has a permitted extraction area of c. 18.15ha to a permitted depth of –15 m OD. Permission is also sought for an extraction area (c. 15.4ha) encompassing part (c. 6.8ha) of the previously permitted extraction area and a new extension to the south (c. 8.6ha) to a depth of –15 m OD (as established by the current permission). The proposed development will also consist of the importation of c. 2.7 million tonnes of non-waste soil and stone to be partly utilised in the backfilling of the existing quarry void (c. 7.4ha) to the north of the site as part of the proposed progressive restoration phase. The proposed development will also include a new soil washing and aggregate recovery plant to be utilised in the recovery of aggregate resources from a) the imported non-waste soil and stone and b) the recovery of resources from on-site unexcavated overburden and temporary overburden storage mounds. The permitted annual average extraction rate is 400,000 tonnes per annum (equivalent to 800,000 tonnes per annum during peak periods), limited to a daily maximum rate of 3,000 tonnes. Permission is sought to increase the permitted average annual extraction to an average annual production rate to 650,000 tonnes per annum (equivalent to 900,000 tonnes per annum during peak periods) to a maximum daily rate of 3,400 tonnes per day. Permission is also sought for: the relocation of a storage container, weighbridges, shipping office, office, canteen drying room and welfare room; the demolition of the existing electrical substation (c. 15.3 sq m) and the removal of the existing wheelwash, percolation area, twin chamber wastewater treatment tanks, bunded fuel area, car and truck parking area, water discharge treatment facility including hydrocarbon interceptor and water quality monitoring equipment; and the provision of new well, electrical substation (c. 53.9 sq m), wheelwash, septic tank and percolation area, bunded fuel tank, car and truck parking area, and a discharge water treatment facility (comprising 2 No. settlement ponds with a total volume of 3,925m3, with associated hydrocarbon interceptor, a concrete canal with a “V” notch weir, and
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660052
13 Oct 2023Conditional
The development will consist of a facility for the recovery of waste concrete on a 1.8ha area at Annagor Quarry, as conducted previously at this site. The recovered materials will meet the Environmental Protection Agency End of Waste Criteria. A Waste Facility Permit will be sought for this activity.
Permission · Meath County Council, 2360336
10 Oct 2023N/a
Permission is sought for an inert waste recovery facility, previously permitted under Planning Register Reference Number SA140257, which has expired. The development will consist of an inert construction and demolition waste recovery facility which provides for the importation, storage, processing, and recovery of waste concrete arising from concrete plants operated by Kilsaran Concrete Unlimited Company and external construction and demolition projects within the Greater Dublin Region. The proposed waste recovery activity at Annagor Quarry will allow for the acceptance of up to 24,000 tonnes per annum of waste concrete (17 01 01). The inert waste recovery facility will be located on a 1.8-hectare site within the overall 36.3 hectare site at Annagor Quarry, Annagor, Duleek, County Meath. The recovered materials will meet the Environmental Protection Agency End of Waste Criteria. A Waste Facility Permit will be sought for this activity.
Permission · Meath County Council, 2360326
22 Mar 2021Conditional
development will consist of the construction of a new detached residential dwelling & detached garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance from road to enter the site, landscaping and all ancillary site works. Significant Further information/ Revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21533
4 Dec 2020Refused
construction of a new detached residential dwelling & detached garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance from road to enter the site, landscaping and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB201855
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 Annagor.
Recorded monuments
- ME027-118 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated on a gently undulating landscape with a small N-S stream c. 40m to the E. The cropmark of a small enclosure (int. diam. c. 15m) defined by a continuous fosse (Wth c. 1m) is visible only on Apple Maps which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. The ring-ditch (ME027-119----) is c. 90m to the S, and both features were first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced view (top) from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 February 2020
- ME027-119 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated on a gently undulating landscape with the valley of a small N-S stream c. 40m to the E. The cropmark of a small enclosure (int. diam. c. 7m) defined by a continuous fosse (Wth c. 2m) is visible only on Apple Maps which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. The ring-ditch (ME027-118----) is c. 90m to the N, and both features were first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced view (bottom) from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 February 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Annagor.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3115 (ZIP).
- 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 Annagor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Annagor
- Area
- 1,206,467 m² (120.65 ha, 298.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilsharvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duleek Lower
- Electoral division
- Julianstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Julianstown electoral division: 11,501 people in 3,991 households; 74% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Beaumont, Beaumont, Gafney, Gafney Little, Kilsharvan, Platin
- Placenames
- Annagor 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.