Bonestown

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bonestown, from 112 m² to 242,264 m² (24.23 ha, 59.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 63 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1A2 - New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 13 Dec 2021Refused

  two buildings for the manufacture of building materials arranged on two self-contained sites together with an access road, landscaping, boundary treatments, car parking, bicycle parking, bin storage, signage, ESB substation and all associated site development works including drainage pipework and connections, utility services and public lighting, The total site area is 4.88ha. Building 1 will be used for the manufacture of insulated formwork for the construction industry and will have a gross floor area of approx. 2794sqm. This includes ground floor production area and storage areas together with an office/showroom/training space arranged over two floors. The site for Building 1 will include for a hardstand external storage area, a circulation roadway, car parking, bicycle parking, bin storage, landscaping, boundary fencing and gates, signage and all associated site development works. Building 2 will be used for the manufacture of precast concrete products for the construction industry and will have a gross floor area of approx. 5386sqm (inclusive of office space over two floors). The site for Building 2 will include for hardstand external storage area, a circulation roadway, car parking, bicycle parking, bin storage, landscaping, boundary fencing and gates, signage and all associated site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 212334

• 27 Oct 2021Conditional

  the construction of a 51m2 single storey extension to the east side of the existing dwelling, as well as internal layout reconfiguration, and a new wastewater treatment system, the regularization of a 58m2 existing garage and the demolition of a 67 m2 existing shed and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 212075

• 17 Sept 2021N/a

  the construction of a 51m2 single storey extension to the east side of the existing dwelling, as well as internal layout reconfiguration, and a new wastewater treatment system, the regularization of a 58m2 existing garage and the demolition of a 67 m2 existing shed and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211836

• 1 Sept 2021N/a

  the construction of a 51m2 single storey extension to the east side of the existing dwelling, internal layout reconfiguration, as well as a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 211693

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  the development consists of the retention for (1) a single storey sun room extension to the rear of the existing residential dwelling and (2) the change of use of garage and carport to living accommodation at the side of existing dwelling. The application also includes for planning permission for the existing septic tank to be replaced by a new treatment system and polishing filter

  Permission · Meath County Council, 211251

• 16 Mar 2021N/a

  the development will consist of the partial demolition of existing ground floor (60m2) and attic accommodation on the first floor (22m2) to the west side of the property and construction of a new two storey extension (152m2) to the existing three bedroom dormer style dwelling including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21497

• 28 May 2020Conditional

  Demolition of 2 no. derelict buildings (former houses) at the northern boundary of the site. Construction of 212 no. dwellings comprising: 113 no. 2 no. storey houses comprising 21 no. 4-bed and 92 no. 3-bed; 99 no. apartments in 6 no. 3-4 storey blocks comprising 6 no. 1-bed, 90 no. 2-bed and 3 no. 3-bed; All with associated private gardens/ balconies/ terraces to the north/ south/ east/ west elevations; Construction of a creche (c.396.22sq.m); Construction of a c.250m section of the Dunshaughlin (East) Main Distributor Road; Construction of a new verge, path and cycle lane along the R125 with the road realigned to create a new street; Provision of vehicular entrances from the R125, with additional vehicular access from the new distributor road to the east, and also from the existing Grange Park residential development to the south; Provision of 362 no. car parking spaces and 264 no. secure bike parking spaces; Provision of open spaces including a new civic park; All associated site development and services connections including bin stores, ESB substations, boundary treatment works, realignment of existing stream through the site, and associated site works and landscaping. The application contains a statement setting out how the proposal will be consistent with the objectives of the Meath County Council development plan 2013-2019. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission, 211 homes · Meath County Council, SH307244

• 18 Apr 2019Conditional

  installation of a double glazed window on the gable wall of the existing property

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA190467

• 10 Apr 2019N/a

  installation of a double glazed window on the gable wall of the existing property

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA190418

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 Bonestown.

Recorded monuments

• ME038-031 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated on a slight E-facing slope in a field that was known as ‘Boylan’s Garden’ or ‘The Meenauns’, it is one of the sources of the W-E Broad Meadow River that flows to the Irish Sea through Ratoath and Ashbourne. St Sechnall’s Well is mentioned by Isaac Butler (1892, 16-7) in 1749 when it was described as sulphurous and surrounded by trees. The OS Letters from the 1830s recorded that a whitethorn grew by the well but the patron had not been held within living memory (Herity 2001, 103). The patron, held on the Sunday following the saint’s feastday, the 27th November, had been revived by the 1920s when the whitethorn was still present at the edge of the well. There was a cure for swellings on any part of the body by the application of a poultice made from clay and the well water applied for nine days, but no offerings were left at the well. The pattern was discontinued before these details were recorded in the 1930’s (IFC: Schools Collection, vol. 0687, 249), but the well is still extant as a circular water-filled hollow although the area is overgrown (French 2012, 63-4).

• ME038-038 Hearth
  Description

  Situated just off the crest of a slight W-facing slope. Topsoil stripping (02E0194) in advance of a gas pipeline identified two spreads of charcoal-rich material (BGE: 1A/18/3) but the smaller (dims 1m x 0.6m) did not survive while the larger was completely excavated (02E0694). It consisted of an oval spread (dims 1.42m x 0.9m; max. T 0.2m) in a cut that was lined with a layer of dark brown silty clay with charcoal flecks and some heat-shattered stone. Above this was black silty clay with less stone and more charcoal. (Tobin 2003, 2004, 2007) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 March, 2018

• ME038-039 Kiln
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Topsoil stripping (02E0194) in advance of a gas pipeline identified two spreads of oxidised clay (BGE: 1A/18/3) which were completely excavated (02E0696). One feature was a shallow circular pit (diam. 0.66m; max. T 0.1m) with dark pink / red clay that was covered by brown clay. A second pit (dims 0.6m x 0.5m; D 0.05m) was 0.9m to the S and had a single fill of dark pink / red clay. There was no evidence of a connecting flue at this severely truncated kiln. (Tobin 2003, 2004, 2007) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 March 2018

• ME038-041 Kiln
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Topsoil stripping (02E0194) in advance of a gas pipeline identified a spread of charcoal and oxidised clay (BGE: 1A/18/1) which was completely excavated under the same licence. It resolved into an oval area (dims 2.4m N-S; 0.52m E-W) consisting of two oval pits with charcoal-rich fills surrounded by a halo of oxidised clay. There was no evidence of a connecting flue at this severely truncated monument. (Tobin 2002, 2004) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 March, 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bonestown.

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 Bonestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Bonestown

Area

1,292,564 m² (129.26 ha, 319.4 acres)

Civil parish

Dunshaughlin, and its townlands

Barony

Ratoath

Electoral division

Dunshaughlin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunshaughlin electoral division: 8,517 people in 2,904 households; 82% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cooksland, Dunshaughlin, Gaulstown, Grangend, Grangend Common, Lagore Little, Redbog, Thomastown

Placenames

Bonestown 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.