# Bigstown, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Siddan, barony of Slane Lower, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,825,342 m² (182.53 ha, 451.05 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,279 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 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/37673 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160239 - Centre: latitude 53.82437, longitude -6.596671 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bigstown, from 206 m² to 387,823 m² (38.78 ha, 95.83 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 205816: 387,823 m² (38.78 ha, 95.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/205816.md - Parcel 3011392: 377,614 m² (37.76 ha, 93.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3011392.md - Parcel 144275: 204,088 m² (20.41 ha, 50.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/144275.md - Parcel 205101: 196,757 m² (19.68 ha, 48.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/205101.md - Parcel 205817: 157,479 m² (15.75 ha, 38.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/205817.md - Parcel 205892: 144,722 m² (14.47 ha, 35.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/205892.md - Parcel 143612: 126,479 m² (12.65 ha, 31.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/143612.md - Parcel 3011372: 76,270 m² (7.63 ha, 18.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3011372.md - Parcel 137227: 51,763 m² (5.18 ha, 12.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/137227.md - Parcel 3011298: 26,084 m² (2.61 ha, 6.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3011298.md - Parcel 143610: 12,941 m² (1.29 ha, 3.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/143610.md - Parcel 168927: 7,146 m² (0.71 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/168927.md - Parcel 3626956: 6,514 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3626956.md - Parcel 150889: 5,038 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/150889.md - Parcel 189667: 4,769 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/189667.md - Parcel 149536: 4,287 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/149536.md - Parcel 160363: 4,279 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/160363.md - Parcel 4788554: 4,024 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4788554.md - Parcel 2696356: 3,508 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2696356.md - Parcel 173791: 3,501 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/173791.md - Parcel 2640980: 3,454 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2640980.md - Parcel 4906298: 3,025 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4906298.md - Parcel 199073: 2,728 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/199073.md - Parcel 184716: 2,621 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/184716.md - Parcel 138987: 2,449 m² (0.24 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/138987.md - Parcel 206422: 2,371 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/206422.md - Parcel 3993046: 2,352 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3993046.md - Parcel 3011324: 1,690 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3011324.md - Parcel 185875: 1,010 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/185875.md - Parcel 4791601: 537 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4791601.md - Parcel 2756385: 504 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2756385.md - Parcel 173189: 386 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/173189.md - Parcel 208646: 206 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/208646.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; 42 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 12 Sept 2025, Meath County Council 2560968: Conditional. Permission. demolish existing rear extension to dwelling house , construct new rear extension to dwelling , alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560968/0 - 9 Sept 2025, Meath County Council 2560949: N/a. Permission. demolish existing rear extension to dwelling house , construct new rear extension to dwelling , alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560949/0 - 12 Jul 2024, Meath County Council 2460527: N/a. Permission, 1 home. The development will consist of the construction of 2 No. commercial storage units on existing commercial yard along with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460527/0 - 19 Aug 2020, Meath County Council LB201114: Conditional. Permission. a single storey extension to the existing school and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB201114/0 - 17 Jun 2020, Meath County Council LB200749: Conditional. Permission. No 1.prefab classroom and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB200749/0 - 24 Oct 2017, Meath County Council LB171234: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB171234/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Bigstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - ME007-006: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME007-006----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bigstown. ## 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 Bigstown, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2824, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2824.zip (ZIP). - 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/bigstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/bigstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/bigstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bigstown 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) - Bigsland (Co. Louth): https://everytownland.com/louth/bigsland.md - Creevagh: https://everytownland.com/meath/creevagh-160516.md - Greenhills: https://everytownland.com/meath/greenhills.md - Mentrim: https://everytownland.com/meath/mentrim.md - Newrath Big: https://everytownland.com/meath/newrath-big-161223.md - Shanlis (Co. Louth): https://everytownland.com/louth/shanlis.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/meath/bigstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/bigstown