Batestown

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Batestown, from 359,756 m² (35.98 ha, 88.9 acres) to 359,756 m² (35.98 ha, 88.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of: 1. The construction of 8 no. 3 bed semi-detached units with new entrances on the grounds of a former Public house, Lounge and residence 2. 10 no. 2 bed semi-detached and 2 No. 2- bed detached age friendly homes. 3. 2 No. 4-bed semi-detached dwellings. 4. To extend and convert existing outbuilding into a shop with car parking. 5. To convert existing deconsecrated church into a Community Hall. 6. To provide access from the public road via existing entrance, to connect to approved public water supply, to construct a Super BAF wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works. Part of this development will be within the curtilage of protected structure MH006-118

  Permission, 22 homes · Meath County Council, 2461110

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 Batestown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Batestown.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Batestown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2783 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Batestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Batestown

Area

359,715 m² (35.97 ha, 88.89 acres)

Civil parish

Siddan, and its townlands

Barony

Slane Lower

Electoral division

Killary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,291 people lived in 467 households in the Killary electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creevagh, Footstown Little, Greenhills, Howthstown, Rathreynolds

Placenames

Batestown 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.