# Cardrath, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Grangegeeth, barony of Slane Upper, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,263,747 m² (226.37 ha, 559.38 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,809 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Grangegeeth, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/grangegeeth.md - Barony: Slane Upper - Electoral division: Grangegeeth, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Grangegeeth electoral division: 695 people in 225 households; 90% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% 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/37647 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160332 - Centre: latitude 53.755886, longitude -6.530199 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cardrath, from 8 m² to 422,350 m² (42.23 ha, 104.36 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 209482: 422,350 m² (42.23 ha, 104.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209482.md - Parcel 209288: 318,511 m² (31.85 ha, 78.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209288.md - Parcel 4839699: 308,773 m² (30.88 ha, 76.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4839699.md - Parcel 209273: 170,862 m² (17.09 ha, 42.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209273.md - Parcel 144103: 144,883 m² (14.49 ha, 35.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/144103.md - Parcel 209289: 118,166 m² (11.82 ha, 29.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209289.md - Parcel 209272: 107,741 m² (10.77 ha, 26.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209272.md - Parcel 147685: 101,201 m² (10.12 ha, 25.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/147685.md - Parcel 5909210: 66,453 m² (6.65 ha, 16.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5909210.md - Parcel 166033: 57,168 m² (5.72 ha, 14.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/166033.md - Parcel 160398: 57,147 m² (5.71 ha, 14.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/160398.md - Parcel 166414: 57,073 m² (5.71 ha, 14.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/166414.md - Parcel 209271: 45,142 m² (4.51 ha, 11.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209271.md - Parcel 2746570: 39,251 m² (3.93 ha, 9.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2746570.md - Parcel 147684: 34,529 m² (3.45 ha, 8.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/147684.md - Parcel 191031: 31,498 m² (3.15 ha, 7.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/191031.md - Parcel 147682: 27,162 m² (2.72 ha, 6.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/147682.md - Parcel 209290: 16,696 m² (1.67 ha, 4.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209290.md - Parcel 2517814: 15,387 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2517814.md - Parcel 192528: 15,086 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/192528.md - Parcel 139007: 11,759 m² (1.18 ha, 2.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/139007.md - Parcel 203590: 9,860 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/203590.md - Parcel 783568: 6,682 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/783568.md - Parcel 147681: 5,469 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/147681.md - Parcel 3121976: 4,583 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3121976.md - Parcel 150929: 4,563 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/150929.md - Parcel 147564: 4,458 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/147564.md - Parcel 781274: 4,413 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/781274.md - Parcel 4835718: 4,034 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4835718.md - Parcel 144889: 3,960 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/144889.md - Parcel 4687713: 3,781 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4687713.md - Parcel 145399: 2,266 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/145399.md - Parcel 155361: 2,213 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/155361.md - Parcel 185968: 2,136 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/185968.md - Parcel 209291: 1,317 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/209291.md - Parcel 167636: 1,292 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/167636.md - Parcel 5825520: 762 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5825520.md - Parcel 4828320: 703 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4828320.md - Parcel 140083: 591 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/140083.md - Parcel 191621: 407 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/191621.md - Parcel 148471: 366 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/148471.md - Parcel 146255: 8 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/146255.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; 66 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) 10 applications, newest first. - 28 Feb 2025, Meath County Council 2560207: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the raising of the roof to allow for a dormer from that previously granted Planning Permission under LB/201214.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560207/0 - 14 Feb 2025, Meath County Council 2560144: N/a. Permission. the raising of the roof to allow for a dormer from that previously granted Planning Permission under LB/201214. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560144/0 - 26 Sept 2023, Meath County Council 2360296: Conditional. Permission. EirGrid PLC, with the consent and approval of the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), intends to apply to Meath County Council for permission for works associated with the proposed uprate of the existing Louth – Woodland 220 kV overhead powerline (OHL) between the existing Louth 220 kV substation in the townland of Monavallet, County Louth and the existing Woodland 220 kV substation in the townland of Woodland, County Meath. The Louth – Woodland 220 kV OHL is approximately 61.5 km long and comprises 207 no. steel lattice tower structures. The existing circuit is located within the functional area of Louth County Council and Meath County Council. Approximately 38.5 km of the existing OHL circuit is located within the functional area of Meath County Council and approximately 23 km is within the functional area of Louth County Council. A separate planning application is being lodged with Louth County Council. The Proposed Development within the functional area of Meath County Council is located in the townlands of Cardrath, Broomfield, Balrenny, Higginstown (Slane Electoral Division), Coalpits, Mooretown (Slane Electoral Division), Cashel, Crewbane, Rossnaree, Fennor (Painestown Electoral Division), Newtown (Painestown Electoral Division), Rathdrinagh, Thurstianstown, Painestown (Painestown Electoral Division), Knockharley, Veldonstown, Kentstown, Danestown, Proudstown (Skreen Electoral Division), Macetown (Skreen Electoral Division), Painestown (Macetown Electoral Division), Frankstown, Riggins (Kilbrew Electoral Division), Reask (Kilbrew Electoral Division), Hallstown, Cabinhill, Flemingtown (Ratoath Electoral Division), Twentypark, Lagore Little, Brownstown (Ratoath Electoral Division), Bradystown, Curkeen, Commons (Ratoath Electoral Division), Gormanstown, Wilkinstown (Dunshaughlin Electoral Division), Powderlough, Raynestown, Derrockstown, Mill Land (Dunshaughlin Electoral Division), Parsonstown, Rathregan, Portan (Dunshaughlin Electoral Division), and Woodland. Five (5) temporary construction compounds and associated access routes are located in the townlands of Knockmooney, Slane, Rath, Flemingstown and Tuiterath. The Proposed Development works within the functional area of County Meath will comprise: ? the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing overhead line circuit conductor with a new higher capacity conductor; ? the strengthening of up to 25 no. tower foundations; ? the replacement of hardware and fittings, such as insulators, insulator ha. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360296/0 - 31 Aug 2023, Meath County Council 2360249: N/a. Permission. EirGrid PLC, with the consent and approval of the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), intends to apply to Meath County Council for permission for works associated with the proposed uprate of the existing Louth – Woodland 220 kV overhead powerline (OHL) between the existing Louth 220 kV substation in the townland of Monavallet, County Louth and the existing Woodland 220 kV substation in the townland of Woodland, County Meath. The Louth – Woodland 220 kV OHL is approximately 61.5 km long and comprises 207 no. steel lattice tower structures. The existing circuit is located within the functional area of Louth County Council and Meath County Council. Approximately 38.5 km of the existing OHL circuit is located within the functional area of Meath County Council and approximately 23 km is within the functional area of Louth County Council. A separate planning application is being lodged with Louth County Council. The Proposed Development within the functional area of Meath County Council is located in the townlands of Cardrath, Broomfield, Balrenny, Higginstown (Slane Electoral Division), Coalpits, Mooretown (Slane Electoral Division), Cashel, Crewbane, Rossnaree, Fennor (Painestown Electoral Division), Newtown (Painestown Electoral Division), Rathdrinagh, Thurstianstown, Painestown (Painestown Electoral Division), Knockharley, Weldonstown, Kentstown, Danestown, Proudstown (Skreen Electoral Division), Macetown (Skreen Electoral Division), Painestown (Macetown Electoral Division), Frankstown, Riggins (Kilbrew Electoral Division), Reask (Kilbrew Electoral Division), Cabinhill, Flemingtown (Ratoath Electoral Division), Twentypark, Lagore Little, Brownstown (Ratoath Electoral Division), Bradystown, Curkeen, Commons (Ratoath Electoral Division), Gormastown, Wilkinstown (Dunshaughlin Electoral Division), Powderlough, Raynestown, Derrockstown, Mill Land (Dunshaughlin Electoral Division), Parsonstown, Rathregan, Portan (Dunshaughlin Electoral Division), and Woodland. The Proposed Development works within the functional area of County Meath will comprise: ? the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing overhead line circuit conductor with a new higher capacity conductor; ? the strengthening of up to 25 no. tower foundations; ? the replacement of hardware and fittings, such as insulators, insulator hardware, earthwire hardware, anti-climbing guards and bird warning spheres at various9 no. locations;; ? the replacement of suspension clamps and vibration dampers. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360249/0 - 22 Jan 2021, Meath County Council 21117: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. alterations to an existing house including the construction of a two storey extenstion to the rear and the installation of a waste water treatment unit and percolation area. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/21117/0 - 4 Sept 2020, Meath County Council LB201214: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. private dwelling, entrance onto road, install proposed wastewater treatment system and percolation area, including all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB201214/0 - 14 Apr 2020, Meath County Council LB200507: Conditional. Permission. conversion of attic space to living accommodation to dwelling house, front porch extension and alterations to front elevation including new dormer windows, rear dormer extension to dwelling and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB200507/0 - 18 Dec 2019, Meath County Council LB191723: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. front porch to existing dwelling, first floor bedroom within dwelling house, detached domestic garage.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB191723/0 - 12 Sept 2019, Meath County Council LB191201: Conditional. Permission. construction of an extension to the side of a private dwelling together with connection to existing services and including all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB191201/0 - 24 Jul 2019, Meath County Council LB190976: N/a. Permission. 25m2 room on the left side of the existing house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB190976/0 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 Cardrath. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - ME013-005: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME013-005----. Located at the tip of a slight W-E spur. This rath is depicted faintly on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is annotated as ‘The White Horse Fort’, although only the last word is in gothic script while the same annotation is entirely in gothic script on the 1908 edition. It is a subcircular grass-covered and slightly raised area (dims 34m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by a gentle, scrub-covered scarp (at NW: Wth 7m; H 0.7m; at SE: Wth 4.5m; H 0.9m) with a slight fosse (at NW: Wth of top c. 8m; ext. D 0.2m) ESE-W-NNW. The scarp is incorporated into a field bank and the fosse into an outer drain NNW-ESE, and the original entrance is not identified. 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 upload: 10 July 2007 Amended: 3 August 2022, 15 December 2022 - ME013-020: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME013-020----. Situated at the highest point of an undulating plateau. A large embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 65m N-S; c. 65m E-W) annotated as a ‘Fort’ is depicted only on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 50m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m) S-NW that is incorporated into a field bank NW-NE but there is no other clear evidence of the perimeter. 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 upload: 10 July 2007 Amended: 3 August 2022 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cardrath. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cardrath. - 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/cardrath.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/cardrath.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/cardrath.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cardrath 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) - Balrenny: https://everytownland.com/meath/balrenny.md - Broomfield: https://everytownland.com/meath/broomfield.md - Collon (Co. Louth): https://everytownland.com/louth/collon.md - Grangegeeth: https://everytownland.com/meath/grangegeeth.md - Higginstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/higginstown-160865.md - Rathmaiden: https://everytownland.com/meath/rathmaiden.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/cardrath - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/cardrath