# Benjerstown, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Siddan, barony of Slane Lower, Co. Meath.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,367,626 m² (236.76 ha, 585.05 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,723 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Siddan, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/siddan.md
- Barony: Slane Lower
- Electoral division: Killary, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37672
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160229
- Centre: latitude 53.802177, longitude -6.657088 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Benjerstown, from 110 m² to 480,959 m² (48.1 ha, 118.85 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 186672: 480,959 m² (48.1 ha, 118.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/186672.md
- Parcel 199071: 302,980 m² (30.3 ha, 74.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/199071.md
- Parcel 138515: 220,611 m² (22.06 ha, 54.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/138515.md
- Parcel 189135: 217,268 m² (21.73 ha, 53.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/189135.md
- Parcel 201762: 177,337 m² (17.73 ha, 43.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/201762.md
- Parcel 137233: 141,847 m² (14.18 ha, 35.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/137233.md
- Parcel 149541: 101,523 m² (10.15 ha, 25.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/149541.md
- Parcel 153040: 98,207 m² (9.82 ha, 24.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/153040.md
- Parcel 160830: 66,317 m² (6.63 ha, 16.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/160830.md
- Parcel 158591: 56,681 m² (5.67 ha, 14.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/158591.md
- Parcel 5418725: 45,551 m² (4.56 ha, 11.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5418725.md
- Parcel 5943336: 41,722 m² (4.17 ha, 10.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5943336.md
- Parcel 186673: 38,086 m² (3.81 ha, 9.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/186673.md
- Parcel 196690: 34,956 m² (3.5 ha, 8.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/196690.md
- Parcel 186674: 34,513 m² (3.45 ha, 8.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/186674.md
- Parcel 158364: 33,022 m² (3.3 ha, 8.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/158364.md
- Parcel 137190: 32,101 m² (3.21 ha, 7.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/137190.md
- Parcel 3172972: 25,057 m² (2.51 ha, 6.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3172972.md
- Parcel 178147: 24,643 m² (2.46 ha, 6.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/178147.md
- Parcel 3173024: 24,200 m² (2.42 ha, 5.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3173024.md
- Parcel 148133: 20,713 m² (2.07 ha, 5.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/148133.md
- Parcel 5083466: 20,403 m² (2.04 ha, 5.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5083466.md
- Parcel 145083: 18,437 m² (1.84 ha, 4.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/145083.md
- Parcel 160831: 10,932 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/160831.md
- Parcel 160485: 7,846 m² (0.78 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/160485.md
- Parcel 151665: 7,178 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/151665.md
- Parcel 189666: 5,062 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/189666.md
- Parcel 184981: 5,048 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/184981.md
- Parcel 168750: 4,627 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/168750.md
- Parcel 205122: 4,573 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/205122.md
- Parcel 5663530: 4,194 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5663530.md
- Parcel 5131415: 4,121 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5131415.md
- Parcel 4975184: 3,978 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4975184.md
- Parcel 159473: 3,753 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/159473.md
- Parcel 142277: 3,692 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/142277.md
- Parcel 144090: 3,667 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/144090.md
- Parcel 2516497: 3,659 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2516497.md
- Parcel 4189654: 3,574 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4189654.md
- Parcel 4619605: 3,552 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4619605.md
- Parcel 2887629: 3,457 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2887629.md
- Parcel 156935: 3,043 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/156935.md
- Parcel 150587: 2,783 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/150587.md
- Parcel 5669536: 2,566 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5669536.md
- Parcel 135695: 2,387 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/135695.md
- Parcel 195673: 2,351 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/195673.md
- Parcel 200508: 2,128 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/200508.md
- Parcel 157888: 1,989 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/157888.md
- Parcel 153401: 1,971 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/153401.md
- Parcel 190079: 1,968 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/190079.md
- Parcel 194326: 1,864 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/194326.md
- Parcel 204600: 1,267 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/204600.md
- Parcel 163919: 1,189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/163919.md
- Parcel 138998: 1,139 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/138998.md
- Parcel 148781: 1,137 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/148781.md
- Parcel 158951: 1,010 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/158951.md
- Parcel 144879: 951 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/144879.md
- Parcel 187548: 932 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/187548.md
- Parcel 150162: 904 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/150162.md
- Parcel 206911: 882 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/206911.md
- Parcel 2588988: 854 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2588988.md
- Parcel 223990: 846 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/223990.md
- Parcel 159599: 673 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/159599.md
- Parcel 197588: 645 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/197588.md
- Parcel 5321557: 526 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5321557.md
- Parcel 2590017: 342 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2590017.md
- Parcel 5498881: 136 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5498881.md
- Parcel 4795367: 118 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4795367.md
- Parcel 2588995: 110 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2588995.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- P5 RA - 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: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 16 Aug 2022, Meath County Council 221073: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/221073/0
- 4 Mar 2022, Meath County Council 22285: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. single storey extension to side of house & external alterations to elevations. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/22285/0
- 11 Dec 2020, Meath County Council LB201908: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB201908/0
- 18 Dec 2019, Meath County Council LB191730: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic garage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB191730/0
- 22 Feb 2019, Meath County Council LB190189: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank with percolation area, new entrance and all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB190189/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Benjerstown.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- ME006-041: House - 17th/18th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME006-041----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Bridge, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 14304004, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=ME&regno=14304004. Single-arch road bridge, built c.1820. Rubble stone walls with dressed sandstone voussoirs.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/meath/benjerstown.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/benjerstown.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/benjerstown.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Benjerstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Balsitric: https://everytownland.com/meath/balsitric.md
- Begsreeve: https://everytownland.com/meath/begsreeve.md
- Clontail: https://everytownland.com/meath/clontail.md
- Glebe: https://everytownland.com/meath/glebe-160789.md
- Killary: https://everytownland.com/meath/killary.md
- Lobinstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/lobinstown.md
- Mitchelstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/mitchelstown-161123.md
- Siddan: https://everytownland.com/meath/siddan.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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