Batterstown
Townland in the civil parish of Trim, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 107.9 ha
- 267 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 4,729 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Batterstown, from 238 m² to 465,213 m² (46.52 ha, 114.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 · 47 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
27 May 2026N/a
The development will consist of planning permission to erect new cubicle shed, 2 no. slurry towers, new calf shed, extension to existing silage pits and ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660638
10 Mar 2025Conditional
the installation of an air source heat pump and enclosure
Permission · Meath County Council, 2560236
4 Mar 2025Conditional
1. restoration of the former sand and gravel pit (quarry reference QY39) to agricultural use through recontouring of the site levels using imported inert non-waste (Article 27 by-product) soil and stone materials. The area of proposed infilling is c. 10.4 hectares. 2. the proposed operational period is for 5 years to complete infilling and final restoration. 3. use of existing site facilities to include wheelwash; bunded fuel storage and refuelling area; workshop/store (c. 55.7m²); and use of the existing site entrance onto the R156 regional road. 4. provision of new site facilities to include mobile welfare pod facility (c. 16m²) consisting of office, canteen, toilet and drying room; weighbridge (c. 45m²); and a dedicated parking area. 5. all associated site ancillary works within an overall application area of c. 15.2 hectares. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this planning application. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 2560211
6 Jun 2023Conditional
The development will consist of the following: 1. construction of a new extension to side and rear of existing house. 2. Demolition of existing extension to rear of house. 3. Existing entrance to be blocked up and construction of new entrance in new location. 4. Decommission existing septic tank system and fit new waste water system and percolation area. 5. all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360079
22 Dec 2022Conditional
permission is being sought to construct a new Two storey dwelling with domestic garage, wastewater 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, 221726
1 Jul 2022Conditional
the development will consist of amendments to set down area. Works consist of realignment and extension of setdown area, provision of internal bus setdown area, internal car setdown area, traffic management signage and pedestrian crossings all within setdown area, new staff carparking area and all associated infrastruture
Permission · Meath County Council, 22876
1 Apr 2019Conditional
single storey classroom extension with attic storage space to rear of existing school comprising 2 no. mainstream classrooms with en suite toilet facilities to replace 2 no. existing on site pre-fab classrooms, infill of existing open space with new flat roof and all associated site works. The development also includes the re-location of external fire escape stairs to serve the attic storage space, connection to existing services together with modifications to existing elevations and internal plan layout
Permission · Meath County Council, TA190373
22 Nov 2018Conditional
to construct (1) milking parlour building with crush, drafting, collecting yard, slatted underground effluent tanks and hardcore yard. (2) Cubicle building with feeding aprons and all associated site works.
Permission · Meath County Council, TA181391
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
Recorded monuments
- ME036-096 Enclosure
Description
Located on a fairly level landscape with a W-E section of the River Boyne c. 280m to the N. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 47m NE-SW) defined by a single slight fosse feature that has a pit (diam. c. 5m) on the perimeter at SE is visible on Google Earth (29/06/2018; 14/07/2019). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 June 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Batterstown.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Batterstown.
- 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 Batterstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Batterstown
- Area
- 1,079,441 m² (107.94 ha, 266.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Trim, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Electoral division
- Ballyconnell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyconnell electoral division: 810 people in 269 households; 93% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymulmore, Doolystown, Fearmore, Monktown, Moyfeagher
- Placenames
- Batterstown 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.