Bawn
Bawn is a townland in the civil parish of Moynalty, barony of Kells Lower, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 94.7 ha
- 234 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 52,560 m² (5.26 ha, 12.99 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawn, from 2,916 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres) to 194,930 m² (19.49 ha, 48.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 40 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
3 Feb 2023Conditional
the construction of a bungalow style dwelling, domestic garage, advanced waste water treatment system and percolation area, proposed bridge with entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2399
20 Jan 2017Conditional
the development consists of retention of (1) amendments and alterations made during construction to elevations and floor plan layouts of existing two storey type dwelling previously granted under planning permission Ref No. KA/130785 (2) revised detached garage design and full planning permission is sought to construct revised site boundaries from that previously granted under KA/130785 and to complete all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA170040
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bawn.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bawn.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bawn.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Bawn, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bawn.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bawn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Bawn
- Area
- 947,180 m² (94.72 ha, 234.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moynalty, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Lower
- Electoral division
- Moynalty, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 650 people lived in 234 households in the Moynalty electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballair, Clonagara, Curraghtown, Kilbeg Lower, Moynalty, Newrath, Newtown, Peru, Walterstown
- Placenames
- Bawn 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.