Basketstown

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Basketstown, from 1,552 m² to 355,549 m² (35.55 ha, 87.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 26 Jan 2026N/a

  planning permission for the development of an aggregate recycling plant at Ballynamona, Summerhill, Co. Meath. The Proposed Project consists of the importation, recovery and recycling of soil, stone, concrete and brick type materials by sorting, crushing and screening for dispatch/re-use in construction and engineering projects. The annual tonnage proposed for acceptance at the Site shall not exceed 25,000 tonnes per annum. A Waste Facility permit will be applied for to Meath County Council

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660093

• 25 Apr 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a dwelling, new entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460283

• 25 Apr 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of: (i) An extension to the permitted Clonymeath Solar Farm (Pl. Ref: 21/546, ABP Ref. 311760) comprising the construction and operation of a solar photovoltaic (PV) farm consisting of solar arrays on ground mounted steel frames with a maximum overall height of 3 metres above ground; (ii) 3 no. medium voltage power stations, underground electrical cabling and ducting, security fencing and CCTV stands; (iii) Provision of new internal access tracks linking with the access track permitted under Pl. Ref: 21/546, ABP Ref. 311760; (iv) Site drainage; (v) All ancillary site development works and apparatus. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years with an operational life of 35 years from the date of commissioning

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460288

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 Basketstown.

Recorded monuments

• ME043-044 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Basketstown.

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

Name

Basketstown

Area

798,381 m² (79.84 ha, 197.28 acres)

Civil parish

Galtrim, and its townlands

Barony

Deece Lower

Electoral division

Summerhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Summerhill electoral division: 1,453 people in 504 households; 66% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamona, Clonymeath, Derryclare, Galtrim, Ginnets Great, Monenstown

Placenames

Basketstown 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.