# Blackcut, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Galtrim, barony of Deece Lower, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 807,720 m² (80.77 ha, 199.59 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,208 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Galtrim, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/galtrim.md - Barony: Deece Lower - Electoral division: Galtrim, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 791 people lived in 251 households in the Galtrim electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/38994 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160244 - Centre: latitude 53.50724, longitude -6.688958 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackcut, from 330 m² to 590,575 m² (59.06 ha, 145.93 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 161567: 590,575 m² (59.06 ha, 145.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/161567.md - Parcel 192890: 114,137 m² (11.41 ha, 28.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/192890.md - Parcel 193620: 56,998 m² (5.7 ha, 14.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/193620.md - Parcel 164642: 10,349 m² (1.03 ha, 2.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/164642.md - Parcel 194959: 10,315 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/194959.md - Parcel 198055: 10,208 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/198055.md - Parcel 151631: 4,771 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/151631.md - Parcel 5611720: 4,133 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5611720.md - Parcel 209686: 4,126 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209686.md - Parcel 138389: 1,877 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/138389.md - Parcel 2598501: 330 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2598501.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; 21 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 24 Jul 2026, Meath County Council 2660930: N/a. Permission. the development will consist of the reinstatement of the existing quarry at Ballynamona, by importing 223,000 tonnes per annum of soil and stone over a 14-year period, with the final profiling and landscaping completed in the following year. The annual soil and stone intake will comprise approximately 128,000 tonnes of non-waste materials notified as by-product under the Article 27 By Product Regulation and up to a maximum of 95,000 tonnes of inert soil and stone classified as waste. The quantity of non-waste material may vary from year to year, while the volume of waste material shall not exceed 95,000 tonnes in any calendar year. The total annual intake of soil and stone will not exceed 223,000 tonnes in any given year. The proposed development also allows for the provision of an additional wheel-wash, two weighbridges, site/weighbridge office and welfare facilities (c. 52sq. m), a waste acceptance quarantine area and a proprietary sanitary wastewater treatment system, and all associated works within an overall application area of 23.8 ha. The reinstatement will require a Soil Recovery Licence issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660930/0 - 6 May 2026, Meath County Council 2660530: N/a. Permission. the development will consist of the reinstatement of the existing quarry at Ballynamona, Summerhill, Co Meath by importing 223,000 tonnes per annum of soil and stone over a 14-year period, with the final profiling and landscaping completed in the following year. The annual soil and stone intake will comprise approximately 128,000 tonnes of non-waste materials notified as by-product under the Article 27 By Product Regulation and up to a maximum of 95,000 tonnes of inert soil and stone classified as waste. The quantity of non-waste material may vary from year to year, while the volume of waste material shall not exceed 95,000 tonnes in any calendar year. The total annual intake of soil and stone will not exceed 223,000 tonnes in any given year. The proposed development also allows for the provision of an additional wheel-wash, two weighbridges, site/weighbridge office and welfare facilities (c. 52sq. m), a waste acceptance quarantine area and a proprietary sanitary wastewater treatment system, and all associated works within an overall application area of 23.8 ha. The reinstatement will require a Soil Recovery Licence issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660530/0 - 2 Apr 2026, Meath County Council 2660371: N/a. Permission. The development will consist of reinstatement of the existing quarry at Ballynamona, by importing 223,000 tonnes of soil and stone over a 14-year period, with the final profiling and landscaping completed in the following year. The annual soil and stone intake will comprise approximately 128,000 tonnes of non-waste materials notified as a by-product under the Article 27 By Product Regulation and approximately 95,000 tonnes of inert soil and stone classified as waste. The proposed development also allows for the provision of an additional wheel-wash (39 sq.m), two weighbridges (each 94 sq.m), site/weighbridge office and welfare facilities (50sq.m), a quarantine area (45 sq.m) and a proprietary sanitary wastewater treatment system. All associated works within an overall application area of 23.8 ha.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660371/0 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 Blackcut. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blackcut. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blackcut. ## 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 Blackcut, 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 low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Blackcut. - 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/blackcut.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/blackcut.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/blackcut.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Blackcut 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) - Arodstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/arodstown.md - Ballynamona: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballynamona-160160.md - Clonymeath: https://everytownland.com/meath/clonymeath.md - Derrypatrick: https://everytownland.com/meath/derrypatrick.md - Galtrim: https://everytownland.com/meath/galtrim.md - Martinstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/martinstown-161089.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/blackcut - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/blackcut