# Cappaghcreen, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunboyne, barony of Dunboyne, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 84,581 m² (8.46 ha, 20.9 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,499 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunboyne, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/dunboyne.md - Barony: Dunboyne - Electoral division: Dunboyne, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 10,698 people lived in 3,434 households in the Dunboyne electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 6% 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/37765 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160329 - Centre: latitude 53.396401, longitude -6.491176 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cappaghcreen, from 1,266 m² to 4,563 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 161619: 4,563 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/161619.md - Parcel 209225: 4,349 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209225.md - Parcel 153585: 2,676 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/153585.md - Parcel 201751: 2,323 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/201751.md - Parcel 5787163: 2,173 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5787163.md - Parcel 195461: 1,266 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/195461.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, Meath; 13 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/meath-adopted-county-development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 16 Jan 2026, Meath County Council 2660066: N/a. Permission. permission for a 10-year approval for development at this site consisting of up to approximately 23.99 kilometres (km) of 38 kilovolts (kV) underground cable (UGC) and all associated site and development works at various locations in County Meath with a total site area of c. 25.71 ha. The proposed development consists of the following elements: •Installation of 3no. new 38 kV underground cable routes or cable route sections and all associated site and development works within the administrative area of Meath County Council (MCC) as outlined below and illustrated on the maps herein: •The proposed Coolmine cable route section in MCC is approximately 3.42 km in length crossing the townlands of Hilltown, Jarretstown and Walterstown from east to west. • The proposed Leixlip cable route section in MCC is approximately 4.08 km in length crossing the townlands of Moor of Meath, Walterstown, Rathleek, Cappaghcreen and Milestown from south to north. • The proposed Macetown cable route is wholly within MCC and is approximately 16.49 km in length crossing the townlands of Cappaghcreen, Walterstown, Milestown, Rathleek, Oranstown, Castlefarm, Dunboyne and Bennetstown from south to north. The primary purpose of the proposed underground cables is to provide electrical power to the Dart+ West Railway project as granted under the DART+ West Railway Order (ACP Ref. 314232). The proposed underground cable routes will incorporate the following elements: • Communication links and fibre optic cables between all substations in the same trench as the UGC; • Joint bays and communication chambers along the UGC alignment; • Temporary construction laydown and work areas with ancillary staff facilities and parking, temporary access tracks, passing bays and water and utility crossings; • All associated and ancillary above and below ground site development works, including works comprising or relating to permanent and temporary construction and roadworks and excavation (including HDD) and vegetation clearance. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Assessment (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660066/0 - 14 May 2019, Meath County Council RA190597: N/a. Permission. a stable block to consist of 2 stables with hay and tack storage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/RA190597/0 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 Cappaghcreen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cappaghcreen. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cappaghcreen. ## 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 Cappaghcreen, about 1 in 20 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 low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2968, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2968.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/cappaghcreen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/cappaghcreen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/cappaghcreen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cappaghcreen 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) - Ellickstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/ellickstown.md - Jarretstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/jarretstown.md - Milestown: https://everytownland.com/meath/milestown-161110.md - Walterstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/walterstown-161594.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/cappaghcreen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/cappaghcreen