# Castlepole, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Loughan or Castlekeeran, barony of Kells Upper, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,312,450 m² (131.25 ha, 324.31 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,801 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Loughan or Castlekeeran, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/loughan-or-castlekeeran.md - Barony: Kells Upper - Electoral division: Castlekeeran, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/38123 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160358 - Centre: latitude 53.738226, longitude -6.934274 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlepole, from 1,598 m² to 228,561 m² (22.86 ha, 56.48 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 198914: 228,561 m² (22.86 ha, 56.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/198914.md - Parcel 193931: 191,312 m² (19.13 ha, 47.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/193931.md - Parcel 139082: 182,132 m² (18.21 ha, 45.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/139082.md - Parcel 147578: 162,528 m² (16.25 ha, 40.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/147578.md - Parcel 208870: 102,905 m² (10.29 ha, 25.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/208870.md - Parcel 144427: 75,023 m² (7.5 ha, 18.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/144427.md - Parcel 148348: 70,458 m² (7.05 ha, 17.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/148348.md - Parcel 208590: 63,022 m² (6.3 ha, 15.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/208590.md - Parcel 5659696: 52,393 m² (5.24 ha, 12.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5659696.md - Parcel 208314: 51,763 m² (5.18 ha, 12.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/208314.md - Parcel 5659697: 23,597 m² (2.36 ha, 5.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5659697.md - Parcel 189447: 18,178 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/189447.md - Parcel 6081004: 15,957 m² (1.6 ha, 3.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6081004.md - Parcel 2843752: 5,439 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2843752.md - Parcel 146266: 5,164 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/146266.md - Parcel 203366: 4,438 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/203366.md - Parcel 138539: 4,121 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/138539.md - Parcel 184950: 3,893 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/184950.md - Parcel 5659731: 3,218 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5659731.md - Parcel 172675: 3,178 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/172675.md - Parcel 215601: 2,639 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/215601.md - Parcel 208764: 2,243 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/208764.md - Parcel 187889: 2,215 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/187889.md - Parcel 3441409: 2,191 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3441409.md - Parcel 146133: 2,191 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/146133.md - Parcel 5304183: 2,187 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5304183.md - Parcel 2516632: 2,157 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2516632.md - Parcel 206784: 2,038 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/206784.md - Parcel 142356: 1,674 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/142356.md - Parcel 171585: 1,598 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/171585.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 (As Varied), Meath; 44 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 - G1 F1/D1 - Open Space/ Tourism (Open space, park): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 25 May 2023, Meath County Council 23556: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/23556/0 - 20 Jan 2023, Meath County Council 2343: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2343/0 - 25 Mar 2022, Meath County Council 22381: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling including a wastewater treatment system & percolation area, domestic well and a new entrance together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/22381/0 - 28 May 2021, Meath County Council 211028: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling including a wastewater treatment system & percolation area, domestic well and a new entrance together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/211028/0 - 11 Dec 2020, Meath County Council KA201916: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/KA201916/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC, site code 002299, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002299 - Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA, site code 004232, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004232 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - ME016-007: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME016-007----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME016-011----. 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 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 Castlepole. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 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/castlepole.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/castlepole.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/castlepole.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Castlepole 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) - Castlekeeran: https://everytownland.com/meath/castlekeeran.md - Commons of Lloyd: https://everytownland.com/meath/commons-of-lloyd.md - Drumbaragh: https://everytownland.com/meath/drumbaragh.md - Meenlagh: https://everytownland.com/meath/meenlagh.md - Mountainpole: https://everytownland.com/meath/mountainpole.md - Rathbrack: https://everytownland.com/meath/rathbrack-161361.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/castlepole - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/castlepole