Assey

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Assey, from 24 m² to 205,935 m² (20.59 ha, 50.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 · 85 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Jul 2026N/a

  the development will consist of the following: 1) to construct a part single, part two storied type dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, 2) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, 3) to upgrade an existing agricultural entrance including new walls, gates and piers, to serve the proposed development, 4) all ancillary site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660895

• 19 Jun 2026Conditional

  planning permission for demolition of existing sunroom to rear & construction of proposed sunroom to rear, apply external wall insulation with render finish to outside of existing dwelling, and to square off head over existing arched windows to front elevation of dwelling, including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 26165

• 19 Dec 2025Refused

  1) to construct a part single, part two storied type dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, 2) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, 3) to close up an existing agricultural entrance and to construct a new entrance to serve the development, along with walls, gates and piers, 4) all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660002

• 19 Oct 2023Refused

  a new two storey/dormer dwelling with garage, septic tank/treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23988

• 19 Sept 2023N/a

  development will consist of a new two storey/dormer dwelling with garage, septic tank/treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23903

• 18 Jun 2021Conditional

  the construction of a one and a half storey dwelling, packaged wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, domestic garage, new entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211181

• 3 Jun 2020Conditional

  construction of a private dwelling and detached garage together with new entrance onto the public road, connection to a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, AA200683

• 3 May 2019N/a

  construction of a private dwelling and detached garage together with new entrance onto the public road, connection to a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, AA190538

• 11 Apr 2019N/a

  construction of a private dwelling and detached garage together with new entrance onto the public road, connections to new and existing services together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, AA190432

• 13 Jul 2018Conditional

  retention of single storey conservatory to the rear of the existing dwelling and retention for change of use of domestic garage to use as home office with revised elevational treatment. To retain single storey store to rear of home office/carport and to retain window to utility to rear of dwelling

  Retention · Meath County Council, AA180785

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
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• ME031-011 Church
  Description

  Situated on the crest of a N and E-facing slope, with a W-E section of the River Boyne c. 100m to the N and a small S-N section of a stream in a fold c. 50m to the E. The parish of Assey was established 1250-1300 (O’Neill 2002, fig. 5) and a church at Athboy (sic) listed in the ecclesiastic taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV may be a misprint for Assey from its position in the list (Cal. doc. Ire. 5, 255). Ussher (1622) describes the church and chancel of Athsey as ruinous (Erlington 1847-64, 1, lxxviii). According to Dopping (1682-5) the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary was in ruins since 1641 and it was not enclosed (Ellison 1972, 7). The parish church of Assey is within a neglected subrectangular or D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) defined by masonry walls. The graveyard has a few headstones dating c. 1744-1820. The foundations of an undivided nave and chancel church (int. dims. 14.3m E-W; 6.3m N-S) survive, with cairn material around the base of a tower (int. dims 3.25m N-S; 2.15m E-W; H c. 3m) at its W end. One piece of a window surround (dims 0.25m; x 0.18m; H 0.31m) with a glazing-groove and hollow chamfers is in the church. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 January 2015

• ME031-011001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on the crest of a N and E-facing slope, with a W-E section of the River Boyne c. 100m to the N and a small S-N section of an E-W stream in a fold c. 50m to the E. The parish church of Assey (ME031-011----) is within a neglected subrectangular or D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) defined by masonry walls. The graveyard has a few headstones dating c. 1744-1820. Archaeological testing (10E0219) by P.D. Sweetman c. 100m to the SE produced no related material (excavations.ie 2010:510). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 January, 2015 Amended: 16 March 2021

• ME031-012 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape with a S-N section of a small stream c. 90m to the E and a W-E section of the River Boyne c. 170m to the N. The parish church of Assey (ME031-011----) is c. 60m to the N. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Mathias Barnwall, Lord of Trimblestown (ME036-003----), owned 177 acres at Assey in Deece barony in 1640, and the property included ‘a Castle, a Corne Mill, a Church and several Cottages’ (Simington 1940, 134), although the castle is not depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map (http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/). It was described by Wilde (1850, 117) as a square keep with circular towers at opposing corners, but it is illustrated by Grosse (1791, vol. 2, 17) with square corner towers topped by gables with chimneys, suggesting a seventeenth century date. It has been removed since 1940s and no trace of it survives. Archaeological testing (05E1050) by P. D. Sweetman c. 30m to the SE produced no related material (excavations.ie 2005:1178), and further testing (10E0219) by P.D. Sweetman c. 90m to the E had a similar outcome (excavations.ie 2010:510). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 7 July 2016 Amended: 16 March 2021, 14 July 2021

• ME031-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Subcircular area defined by earthen bank (dims. 20m N-S, 18m E-W) and external fosse and outer bank ESE-W. Entrance may be at ESE.

• ME031-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a gently undulating landscape. A D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google imagery from July 2013. There is an entrance gap at N, and the perimeter seems to abut, but was probably re-cut parallel with, a NNE-SSW ditch feature that was associated with a field bank that is now removed but is marked on the 1908 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The enclosure was first identified by Tom Condit. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 April, 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Assey.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2707 (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.

No address of the register names Assey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Assey

Area

1,735,800 m² (173.58 ha, 428.93 acres)

Civil parish

Assey, and its townlands

Barony

Deece Lower

Electoral division

Tara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tara electoral division: 1,466 people in 438 households; 89% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balgeeth, Balgill, Ballinter, Balreask, Balsoon, Bonfield, Craystown or Ennistown, Grange

Placenames

Assey 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.