Castlepole

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlepole, from 1,598 m² to 228,561 m² (22.86 ha, 56.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 44 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1F1/D1 - Open Space/ Tourism (Open space, park)
  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.

• 25 May 2023Conditional

  a new dwelling including a wastewater treatment system & percolation area, domestic well and a new entrance together with all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23556

• 20 Jan 2023Conditional

  planning permission to contruct a single storey dwelling house, a domestic garage and install a sewage treatment system with percolation areas together with all associated site developmet works on site at Drumbaragh, Kells. It is proposed to upgrade and use the landowners existing entrance/proposecd Right of Way to access application site. The existing entrance is located in the townland of Castlepole. Significant Further Information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2343

• 25 Mar 2022Refused

  to construct a new dwelling including a wastewater treatment system & percolation area, domestic well and a new entrance together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22381

• 28 May 2021Refused

  to construct a new dwelling including a wastewater treatment system & percolation area, domestic well and a new entrance together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211028

• 11 Dec 2020Conditional

  a five bay agricultural building, part bedded part slatted with concrete yard, alterations to the existing agricultural entrance together with associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA201916

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• ME016-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the N edge of a plain and on the S bank of a W-E section of the Blackwater River, with the stream c. 40m to the N. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 42m WNW-ESE: 33m; NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (at SSW: Wth of base 9m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.2m) and hedge, with an outer fosse (at SSW: Wth of top 10m; Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.4m) SSE-W. The bank is reduced to a scarp (at NNW: Wth 6m; H 2.8m) and hedge NW-E that melds into the natural slope at N. The original entrance (Wth of base 1.3m) is at E. 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: 25 February 2019

• ME016-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a hillock on the S bank of a W-E section of the River Blackwater, with the stream c. 40m to the N. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 38m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 4-4.5m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 1-1.3m) and hedge, with some external stone facing at W. The original entrance (Wth of base 1.6m) is at E but there is no visible fosse. It remains unplanted in woodland since before 1995 (OSAP). 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: 25 February 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlepole.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Castlepole, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlepole.

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.

No address of the register names Castlepole with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Castlepole

Area

1,312,450 m² (131.25 ha, 324.31 acres)

Civil parish

Loughan or Castlekeeran, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Castlekeeran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

513 people lived in 169 households in the Castlekeeran electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlekeeran, Commons of Lloyd, Drumbaragh, Meenlagh, Mountainpole, Rathbrack

Placenames

Castlepole 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.