Castleparks
Castleparks is a townland in the civil parish of Slane, barony of Slane Upper, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 40.6 ha
- 100 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 3,549 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castleparks, from 214 m² to 368,149 m² (36.81 ha, 90.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3H1 - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 1 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
26 Aug 2026N/a
the development will consist of a single storey, detached dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, new vehicular entrance gateway, access road, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Meath County Council, 26196
11 Sept 2025Refused
the development will consist of a part single storey, part storey and a half, detached dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, new vehicular entrance gateway, access road, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Outline permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 25173
12 Dec 2024Conditional
the development will consist of outline permission for a part single storey, part storey and a half, detached dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank and percolation area new vehicular entrance gateway, access road, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works
Outline permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 24457
27 Oct 2023N/a
the development will consist of outline permission for a part single storey, part storey and a half , detached dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, new vehicular entrance gateway, access road, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works
Outline permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 231010
8 Dec 2021Refused
permission is being sought to construct a two bedroom dwelling. The application will also include an effluent treatment unit with percolation area, domestic garage, new entrance all associated site works, landscaping and drainage
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 212298
17 Nov 2021N/a
permission is being sought to construct a dwelling. The application will also include an effluent treatment unit with percolation area, domestic garage, new entrance all associated site works, landscaping and drainage
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 212186
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 Castleparks.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Castleparks.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castleparks.
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 Castleparks, 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 Castleparks.
- 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 Castleparks with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Castleparks
- Area
- 406,290 m² (40.63 ha, 100.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Slane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slane Upper
- Electoral division
- Slane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,936 people lived in 687 households in the Slane electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickdexter, Harlinstown, Slanecastle Demesne
- Placenames
- Castleparks 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.