Bigstown

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bigstown, from 206 m² to 387,823 m² (38.78 ha, 95.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 · 42 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 12 Sept 2025Conditional

  demolish existing rear extension to dwelling house , construct new rear extension to dwelling , alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560968

• 9 Sept 2025N/a

  demolish existing rear extension to dwelling house , construct new rear extension to dwelling , alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560949

• 12 Jul 2024N/a

  The development will consist of the construction of 2 No. commercial storage units on existing commercial yard along with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460527

• 19 Aug 2020Conditional

  a single storey extension to the existing school and associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, LB201114

• 17 Jun 2020Conditional

  No 1.prefab classroom and associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, LB200749

• 24 Oct 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of; A revised design of a single storey extension to the rear and side of an existing dwelling house as previously granted under planning permission SA140385. the new septic tank, percolation area, waste water treatment system and all associated siteworks granted under permission SA140385 are unaffected by this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, LB171234

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 Bigstown.

Recorded monuments

• ME007-006 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a N-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a continuous fosse feature is separated by a berm (Wth c. 5m) from an outer fosse (ext. diam. c. 40m) that is only traceable E-S-W. It is visible on Google Earth 29/06/2018), is also visible on OSI images (1995), and the inner enclosure is also visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013). It was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached view from Google Earth (29/06/2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 June 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Bigstown, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2824 (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 Bigstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Bigstown

Area

1,825,342 m² (182.53 ha, 451.05 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

Bigsland (Co. Louth), Creevagh, Greenhills, Mentrim, Newrath Big, Shanlis (Co. Louth)

Placenames

Bigstown 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.