Billywood

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Billywood, from 148 m² to 482,939 m² (48.29 ha, 119.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 41 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 20 Aug 2026N/a

  to construct an agricultural building with underground slurry storage tank together with all associated siteworks

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660463

• 5 Aug 2026N/a

  to construct an agricultural building with underground slurry storage tank together with all associated siteworks

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660431

• 8 Jul 2026Conditional

  permission for development consisting of outfall and discharge infrastructure associated with the Mullagh Wastewater Treatment Plant (WwTP), located within the townland of Rosehill County Cavan and Seancarnan, Moynalty, Kells, County Meath. As part of the works, it is proposed to increase the treatment capacity of the Mullagh WwTP from 3,000 population equivalent (PE) to 3,400 PE to meet the 25 year design horizon. Upgrade works at the Mullagh WwTP shall consist of the following: • Inlet Works o Upgrade of the pipework within the existing forward feed pumping station. • Primary Treatment, including: o Dual stream activated sludge aeration tank with auxiliary pipework & blowers. • Secondary treatment, including; o Mechanical upgrade of the existing secondary settlement tank including replacement of the existing pipework, bridge, sludge collection equipment, etc. o Construction of new Secondary settlement tank. • Discharge works, including: o Final effluent pumping station; o 1.365km effluent rising main along the Mullagh Road (R194) towards the Moynalty River including discharge manhole and headwall. • Sludge treatment works, including: o Mechanical upgrade of the existing sludge holding tank including replacement of the existing pipework, etc. o Construction of a new sludge import facility including sludge import screen and sludge import pumping station. o Scum pumping station. o Return activated sludge (RAS) pumping station. o Waste activated sludge (WAS) pumping station. o Sludge drying reed beds. o Mixed liquor returns pumping station. • Chemical Treatment including bulk storage and chemical dosing equipment for the following chemicals: o Alkalinity (NaOH). o Ferric Sulphate. • 1 No. MCC Control building including backup power generator and associated fuel storage tank. • Decommissioning and demolishing works of the following: o Imhof tank and associated pipework o 2 No Trickling filter tanks and associated pipework etc. • Solar arrays including ground mounted structures and control equipment etc. • Ancillary site works, including: o Installation of instrumentation, monitoring equipment & controls in accordance with Uisce Eireann’s technical standards. o Potable water kiosk and pumps o General groundworks, site clearance, topsoil stripping, fencing, landscaping, ducting, pipework, manholes / chambers and drainage works including for filter

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660850

• 30 Jun 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of the following: (1) To construct a detached part single storey, part two storey split level style dwelling and a detached domestic garage, (2) To install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, (3) To install a private bored well, (4) To install a new vehicular entrance and driveway, (5) site landscaping and all ancillary site development works. Significant Further Information/Revised Plans submitted on this application.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560670

• 9 Apr 2021Conditional

  the development consists of (1) retention of an existing agricultural dry bedded shed, (2) full planning permission for alterations and extension of an existing dry bedded shed to form a cubicle shed, (3) the construction of a milking parlour & cattle holding area, (4) new overground slurry storage tank, (5) new meal silo, (6) new overground rainwater harvesting tank, and (7) all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 21666

• 8 Aug 2018Conditional

  of (a) existing building being used as a tyre service workshop and tyre store, (b) portacabin structure being used as an office, (c) external tyre storage yard and (d) upgraded entrance and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18322

• 31 Jan 2018Conditional

  to construct (a) a single storey 55-bedroom nursing home (49 single bedrooms, 6 double bedrooms - 61 beds in total) (b) single storey community centre (approx. size 195m2), (c) single storey boiler/utility shed, (d) together with all ancillary site works including installing pumping station and rising main and connecting to public foul drainage system and watermain, complete existing access roadway and entrance from public road, all on existing brownfield site. (Development previously granted and commenced under planning ref. no. 07/866 and 08/522)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 1849

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 Billywood.

Recorded monuments

• ME010-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 29.5m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) that slopes down steeply to the NE (H 2m). It is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 3.4-5.8m; int. H 0.1m at NE (downslope) to 0.3m; at SW; ext. H 1m at SE to 1.3m at NE), with an outer fosse (at SW: Wth of top 4.3m; Wth of base 1.4m; ext. D 0.9m) SSE-NW. The entrance (Wth of base 2.3m) is at ENE. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 February 2019

• ME010-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of a NE-facing slope. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 26.8m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 8m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 2.4m) with trees and an outer fosse (at NW: Wth of top 7m; Wth of base 2.8m; ext. D 1.2m) S-W-NE that is largely reduced to an external scarp (at SE: Wth 7m; H 3.7m) with a step (Wth 1.5m) where trees are planted NE-S. The entrance could be a slight fold (Wth of top 4m) in the top of the scarp at SE. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 February 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2430 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Billywood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Billywood

Area

1,992,128 m² (199.21 ha, 492.27 acres)

Civil parish

Moynalty, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Lower

Electoral division

Moynalty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moynalty electoral division: 650 people in 234 households; 79% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Farranadoony, Leitrim (Co. Cavan), Rantavan (Co. Cavan), Rathinree Lower, Rosehill (Co. Cavan), Shancarnan

Placenames

Billywood 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.