Carnes West
Townland in the civil parish of Duleek, barony of Duleek Upper, Co. Meath; in Irish Cearna Thiar
- Area
- 121 ha
- 299 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 37,106 m² (3.71 ha, 9.17 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carnes West, from 1,998 m² to 332,457 m² (33.25 ha, 82.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 35 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
11 Jul 2025N/a
the development will consist of a single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area and associated site works incorporating site boundaries and entrance onto public road
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560726
12 Jul 2021Conditional
amendments to previously approved development of a domestic dwelling planning permission ref P79/251 consisting of amendments to site layout, outbuilding, roadside fence, elevation changes, attic conversion with roof lights to provide storage & home gym
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211333
22 Nov 2019N/a
a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area and associated site works incorporating site boundaries and site entrance
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, AA191575
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 Carnes West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carnes West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carnes West.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Carnes West.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carnes West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Carnes West · Cearna Thiar
- Area
- 1,209,727 m² (120.97 ha, 298.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duleek, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duleek Upper
- Electoral division
- Ardcath, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardcath electoral division: 2,119 people in 721 households; 86% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellewstown, Carnes East, Clatterstown, Cooksgrove, Fennor, Johnstown, Keenoge, Lunderstown, Prioryland
- Placenames
- Carnes West 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.