Causestown

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Causestown, from 6 m² to 334,021 m² (33.4 ha, 82.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 97 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 19 Jun 2024Conditional

  permission to (a) demolish existing single storey extension, (b) construct a single storey extension (c) domestic garage and store, (d) decommission existing septic tank & install new proprietary wastewater treatment system & (e) all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460447

• 28 May 2024N/a

  permission to (a) demolish existing single storey extension, (b) construct a single storey extension (c) domestic garage and store, (d) decommission existing septic tank & install new proprietary wastewater treatment system & (e) all associated site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460387

• 9 May 2024N/a

  permission to (a) demolish existing single storey rear extension, (b) construct a single storey extension to rear extension, (c) domestic garage and store, (d) decommission existing septic tank & install new proprietary wastewater treatment system & (e) all associated site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460329

• 7 May 2024Conditional

  retention Permission: 1. Retention of a flat roofed extension to rear of existing cottage. 2. Retention of relocated site entrance granted under planning ref 99/93 Demolition: 1. Demolition of flat roof & single storey extensions to rear & side of existing cottage. Planning Permission: 1. Planning for proposed single storey extensions to rear & side of existing cottage. 2. Planning for installation of effluent treatment system and percolation area to rear of property. 3. Planning for proposed domestic garage and 4. All associated site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460319

• 28 Aug 2020Conditional

  the installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter to replace the existing septic tank

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201164

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Causestown.

Recorded monuments

• ME029-010 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Cawcestown in Athboy parish was church land owned by the Archbishop of Armagh in 1640, and on the property was ‘one castle and some cottages’ (Simington 1940, 218). This is a rectangular tower house with rounded NW and SE corners, and circular stairs towers at the NE and SW corners. The doorway on the E side leads into the ground floor chamber (int. dims 5.8m E-W; 4.9m N-S) with an E-W barrel-vault. The only features are double-splay lights in the E and W walls and a passage in the E wall leading to the newel stairs in the NE tower. Only the W wall survives at the first floor with a large window opening, together with the SW tower that has evidence of a newel stairs rising to the second floor, which is corbelled at the top and suggests that it was not any higher. 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: 28 June 2016 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 176/1945).

• ME029-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a gently undulating landscape. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’, and a sub-triangular feature is depicted on the 1912 edition. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture, and no feature is visible on any aerial images. 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. Date of revision: 28 February 2019

• ME029-012 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. This feature is not depicted on any map but a rectangular enclosure is visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: 1457 / 8) from the 1940s. It is visible on the ground as a rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims 24m NNW-SSE; 22.5m ENE-WSW) defined by fosses or moats (Wth of top 3-4m; D 0.1m) with thinner growth immediately inside on the site of earthen banks. It is also visible on Google Earth (06/06/2018). 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: 28 February 2019

• ME029-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a gently undulating landscape. This is an oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 39m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 2m at W to 3.2m at E) with some trees and a rounded fosse (at W: Wth of top 7.5m; ext. D 0.6m) that is separated by a berm (at W: Wth 4m) from the base of the scarp. There is an old quarry inside the perimeter at N and a broad inner scarp (Wth 7m; H 1m) extends NE-E. There is an entrance ramp at S. 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: 28 February 2019

• ME029-014 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. A large subrectangular to subcircular enclosure (dims c. 130m NW-SE; c. 85-90m NE-SW) that appears to have been defined by a slight earthen bank and an external fosse is clearly visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: V306/1457) from the 1940s and (GSIAP: N 75, 76) from the 1970s, but its visible profile had been removed by 1984 (SMR file). The cropmark of the fosse can be seen on later series of aerial images (OSAP: 1995; Digital Globe; Google Earth 24/03/2017; 07/05/2017). 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: 28 February 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2383 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Causestown · Baile an Chabhsaigh

Area

2,723,015 m² (272.3 ha, 672.87 acres)

Civil parish

Athboy, and its townlands

Barony

Lune

Electoral division

Grennanstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grennanstown electoral division: 1,260 people in 420 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynadrimna, Balrath, Castletown, Chapel Land, Higginstown, Lisclogher Little or Earlsmeadow (Co. Westmeath), Pluckstown

Placenames

Causestown 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.