Benjerstown

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Benjerstown, from 110 m² to 480,959 m² (48.1 ha, 118.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 98 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 16 Aug 2022Conditional

  a new single storey dwelling, associated detached single car garage, opening of a new vehicular entrance to site and wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site development works. Significant Further Information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221073

• 4 Mar 2022Conditional

  single storey extension to side of house & external alterations to elevations

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22285

• 11 Dec 2020Conditional

  a two storey house, waste water treatment unit and percolation area and new entrance onto the public road. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB201908

• 18 Dec 2019Conditional

  a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB191730

• 22 Feb 2019Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank with percolation area, new entrance and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB190189

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 Benjerstown.

Recorded monuments

• ME006-041 House - 17th/18th century
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying landscape and c. 400m W of Siddan church (ME006-056001). According to the Civil Survey (1655) in 1640 Walter Evers owned 172 acres at Bingerstown where there was a stone house and a mill, both described as wasted (Simington 1940, 360). The house mentioned is unlikely to be this structure that is possibly late seventeenth century in date at the earliest. The house is depicted on Taylor and Skinner’s map of the roads of Ireland (1793) when it was owned by a family called Adams (Andrews 1969, 260). It is depicted as roofed on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and in Griffith’s Valuation (1848-64) it was leased by a Patrick McGuinness from James Shiels, who was himself the lease-holder of c. 30 acres in Benjerstown from Eliza Adams. Eliza owned about half the townland and lived in a house, now gone, c. 150m to the E on the S side of the road. For the Griffith valuation see this web-page accessed on 18/09/2018: http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml The two storey late seventeenth century or early eighteenth century house was recorded in 1984 as a rectangular structure (ext. dims 15.5m N-S; 6.75m E-W) with one doorway and six tall window openings at the ground floor on the E side and a single light and a blocked doorway on the W wall. The E doorway led into the central of three rooms but only those to N and S have round-backed fireplaces with some brick in the gable walls. The walls were 0.6m thick and the joists for the first floor were set directly into the long walls. There was a return (int. dim. 5.5m E-W) attached to the W at the centre but not extending the full length of the house. It was represented by the N wall only and accessed by the blocked doorway from the main house. The first floor of the main house had three rooms but no fireplaces. There were seven tall windows in the E wall and three in the W wall. The N wall of the W part had a fireplace. The walls of the house were reduced (H c. 1m) in July 1991 (Rose 1992). 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 See the attached view taken from the SE in 1984 Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 26 October 2018

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge, built c.1820. Rubble stone walls with dressed sandstone voussoirs.

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 Benjerstown, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Benjerstown.

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

Name

Benjerstown

Area

2,367,626 m² (236.76 ha, 585.05 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

Balsitric, Begsreeve, Clontail, Glebe, Killary, Lobinstown, Mitchelstown, Siddan

Placenames

Benjerstown 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.