Carrick
Carrick is a townland in the civil parish of Kilskeer, barony of Kells Upper, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 101.7 ha
- 251 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 53,009 m² (5.3 ha, 13.1 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrick, from 2,268 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 181,164 m² (18.12 ha, 44.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 · 29 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
13 Aug 2026N/a
the development will consist of a change of house type, from that previously granted under Reg. Ref. No. 211434, which consisted of a storey and a half type dwelling to a revised storey and a half type dwelling with altered floor layouts and elevational treatment, revisions to the garage design, entrance and site layout plan, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2661024
31 Jan 2025Conditional
the development will consist of revisions to previously granted planning permission ref. no.:21/1521 and will include revisions to the design of approved one and a half-storied type dwelling house, minor revisions to the site layout and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560099
24 Nov 2022Conditional
permission for retention of existing garage and permission to alter existing boundaries on site and all associated site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, 221527
6 Aug 2021Conditional
constructing a one and a half storied type dwelling house and a detached garage, to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area and to close up an existing agricultural entrance and to make a new entrance onto the Cul-De-Sac roadway along with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211521
27 Jul 2021Conditional
the relocation of existing pump house, formation of new agricultural entrance to adjacent farmland, formation of new domestic entrance, construction of storey and a half dwelling with integrated garage, new wastewater treatment and percolation area and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211434
23 Oct 2020N/a
for development at Boltown, Crossakeel, Co. Meath. The development will consist of the formation of new domestic entrance to roadway, construction of two storey dwelling, adjoining garage with ancillary rooms, new wastewater treatment and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Meath County Council, KA201540
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 Carrick.
Recorded monuments
- ME016-029001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a SE-facing slope. This is an overgrown area (diam. c. 35m) obscured by spoil which is defined by a scarp (at S: H 1.6m) and an outer fosse (at S: Wth of base 3.2m; ext. D 0.4m). The perimeter is cut by a NE-SW field bank at N. Inside the perimeter at SW is the collapsed roof (dims of opening 1.5m x 1.2m) of the beehive chamber of a souterrain, which is filled with stones. 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 revision: 26 February 2019
- ME016-029002 Souterrain
Description
Inside the perimeter of rath (ME016-029001-) at SW is the collapsed roof (dims of opening 1.5m x 1.2m) of the beehive chamber of a souterrain, which is filled with stones. 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 revision: 26 February 2019
- ME016-031 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a SE-facing slope. This feature is not depicted on any OS 6-inch map but is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: N 261, 262) and on later series. This is a subcircular grass and rush-covered area (dims 31m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a scarp (max. H 1m), and traces of an outer fosse (Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.2m) at W. There is a ramp entrance (Wth of base 4m) at N. The monument is circumscribed by a field bank NE-SE. 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 revision: 26 February 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrick.
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 Carrick, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrick.
- 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 Carrick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Carrick
- Area
- 1,017,261 m² (101.73 ha, 251.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilskeer, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Electoral division
- Kilskeer, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 444 people lived in 147 households in the Kilskeer electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boltown, Creevagh, Crossakeel, Kilskeer
- Placenames
- Carrick 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.