Ardbrackan or Wrightown
Townland in the civil parish of Scurlockstown, barony of Deece Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 104.5 ha
- 258 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 2,376 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardbrackan or Wrightown, from 5 m² to 479,111 m² (47.91 ha, 118.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 · 86 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
18 Dec 2024Conditional
the renovation and remodel of the existing cottage with the construction of a linked extension to the rear of the cottage including a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, with connection to all existing services together with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 24464
24 May 2024Refused
the renovation and remodel of the existing cottage and the construction of an extension to the rear of the cottage with connection to all existing services including a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, 24228
12 Apr 2018N/a
the construction of a two storey dwelling and domestic garage, septic tank and designed trenched percolation area, entrance and for connection to public water main
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA180352
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 Ardbrackan or Wrightown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardbrackan or Wrightown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardbrackan or Wrightown.
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_2676 (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 Ardbrackan or Wrightown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Ardbrackan or Wrightown
- Area
- 1,045,378 m² (104.54 ha, 258.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Scurlockstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Deece Lower
- Electoral division
- Galtrim, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Galtrim electoral division: 791 people in 251 households; 87% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Creroge, Crumpstown or Marshallstown, Finlaghtown Great, Finlaghtown Little, Mountland or Butterhouse, Walterstown
- Placenames
- Ardbrackan or Wrightown 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.