Ardglassan

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardglassan, from 162 m² to 186,508 m² (18.65 ha, 46.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 · 31 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 28 Nov 2025Conditional

  Demolition of modern porch and new doorway to the south and demolition of modern porch and construction of a single storey extension to the east side, various alterations to plan layout to improve kitchen and bathroom accommodation and associated alterations and repairs including alterations to chimney stack to north side, new window and door opening to west side, various conservative repairs to the interior and exterior including replacement of incompatible modern materials to walls & floors with lime based materials, restoration of previously removed roughcast render to walls and previously removed ceilings and floors, replacement of modern plastic windows to north side with new timber sash windows, replacement of modern electrical and plumbing and heating services installations and upgrading existing foul & surface water drainage including the decommissioning of the existing septic tank & provision of a new waste water treatment system together with all associated repairs & site works. Permission is also sought for retention of removal of modern plasterboard ceilings to first floor, removal of modern cement render to external walls and removal of decayed timber ground floors.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561303

• 18 Oct 2023N/a

  (i) Installation of a timber fin screen aligned with the original rear elevation of the existing cottage; (ii) Construction of a single storey extension of 105.77 sqm to the rear with pitched slate roof; and (iii) all associated site works necessary to facilitate the development. The planning application may be inspected or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Authority during its public opening hours.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360351

• 29 Sept 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of to decommission existing Septic Tank serving dwelling and to provide Proprietary Sewage Treatment System with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360307

• 20 Feb 2023N/a

  the development will consist of (i) Demolition of masonry wall at the front of site dating from the 1930's, and preserving the existing dry stone wall with an earth berm behind it; (ii) Installation of a timber fin screen aligned with the original rear elevation of the existing cottage; (iii) The extension of the original residence linked through a glass box to the original cottage with a total combined area of 265.71 sqm; and (iv) All associated site works necessary to facilitate the development

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23161

• 25 Sept 2019Conditional

  the development seeking retention consists of a sewerage treatment system, comprising of an advanced treatment unit and associated percolation area and all the ancillary site development works

  Retention · Meath County Council, KA191268

• 24 Apr 2019Conditional

  the development is within the curtilage of a protected structure and will consist of the retention of a proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area and all ancillaries

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA190499

• 9 Apr 2019N/a

  retention of a proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area and all ancillaries

  Retention · Meath County Council, KA190414

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299

Recorded monuments

• ME016-059 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  Situated on relatively low ground with limited views. There is a knoll immediately to the NE and a second one c. 100m to the E. A circular grass-covered platform (diam. 17.3m N-S; 16.8m E-W) is surrounded by a clearly visible U-shaped fosse (Wth of top c. 9m; Wth at base 3m; max. D c. 1m) except E-SSW where there is evidence for quarrying. Compiled by: Claire Breen & Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 26 February 2019

Architectural heritage

• Forge/smithy, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted single-bay single-storey former forge, built c. 1890, now disused. Rubble stone walls. Timber battened doors set in segmental-arched opening with brick and ashlar dressings. Timber windows with ashlar dressings.

• Worker's house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of semi-detached three-bay single-storey former estate worker's houses, built c.1830, now privately owned. Pitched slate roofs with brick and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with sills and some timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings with replacement doors.

• Worker's house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terrace of six three-bay single-storey former estate workers' houses, built c.1830, now privately owned. Pitched slate roofs with brick or rendered chimneystacks. Stone and rendered walls. Square-headed openings with stone sills, and some timber casement windows. Square-headed openings, some with timber battened doors. Stone wall to east.

• Seat/bench, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wrought-iron seat, c.1850.

• Worker's house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terrace of seven three-bay single-storey former estate workers' houses, built c.1830, now privately owned. Pitched slate roofs with brick or rendered chimneystacks. Stone and rendered walls. Square-headed openings with stone sills, some with timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings, some with timber battened doors.

• Ardglassan House, outbuilding, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four ranges of multiple-bay single- and two-storey outbuildings, built c.1860, arranged around a courtyard. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rooflights. Rubble stone walls with brick dressings to openings. Pair of cast-iron gates to site.

• Ardglassan House, farm house, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, with two-storey return. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with stone sills and timber sash windows. Flat-roofed porch addition with tripartite timber sash windows and replacement door. Octagonal stone entrance piers with carved caps and pair of cast-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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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 Ardglassan.

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 Ardglassan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Ardglassan · Áth Ghlasán

Area

346,196 m² (34.62 ha, 85.55 acres)

Civil parish

Kilskeer, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Crossakeel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crossakeel electoral division: 590 people in 198 households; 80% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnelrussel, Clonabreany, Crossakeel, Martinstown

Placenames

Ardglassan 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.