Blundelstown
Blundelstown is a townland in the civil parish of Templekeeran, barony of Skreen, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is Baile Bhluindín.
- Area
- 48.9 ha
- 121 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 6,141 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blundelstown, from 370 m² to 235,449 m² (23.54 ha, 58.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 32 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Aug 2024Conditional
(1) Construction of an agricultural storage shed to incorporate bulk grain, straw and machinery storage areas and (2) Completion of all ancillary site works and associated structures
Permission · Meath County Council, 2460671
14 Feb 2022Refused
the erection of a 36 metre high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennae, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed in security fencing with an extension to an existing access track
Permission · Meath County Council, 22184
20 Jun 2018Conditional
retention permission for the following: revised porch, omitted side extension, omitted external windows; bigger utility room, widened gable sliding door, revised site boundaries, and planning permission relocate proposed domestic garage and to complete all works associated with that granted planning permission under NA/110325, including all ancillary site works
Retention · Meath County Council, AA180663
4 Jul 2017N/a
retention permission for the following: revised porch, omitted side extension, omitted external windows; bigger utility room, widened gable sliding door, from that granted planning permission under NA/110325 including all ancillary site works
Retention · Meath County Council, AA170769
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Blundelstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blundelstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blundelstown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Blundelstown, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2829 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Blundelstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Blundelstown · Baile Bhluindín
- Area
- 489,302 m² (48.93 ha, 120.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templekeeran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Skreen
- Electoral division
- Tara, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,466 people lived in 438 households in the Tara electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castletown Tara, Jordanstown, Lismullin, Philpotstown
- Placenames
- Blundelstown 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.