Coghalstown
Townland in the civil parish of Rathkenny, barony of Slane Upper, Co. Meath
- Area
- 238.9 ha
- 590 acres
- Land parcels
- 114
- registered freehold, median 6,521 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
114 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coghalstown, from 97 m² to 124,651 m² (12.47 ha, 30.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 137 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
6 Feb 2026Conditional
the development will consist of an application to retain (retention planning permission) a domestic garage on the site
Retention · Meath County Council, 2665
28 Jan 2026Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of a storey & a half style dwelling, detached domestic garage, new wastewater disposal system, and new domestic site entrance along with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660103
19 Jan 2026N/a
the development will consist of the construction of a storey & a half style dwelling, detached domestic garage, new wastewater disposal system, and new domestic site entrance along with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660067
9 Sept 2022Conditional
demolition of the existing outbuildings attached to the side of the existing single storey dwelling, the construction of a single storey extension to the side of the existing single storey dwelling, alterations and renovations to the existing single storey dwelling, the development will also consist of the decommissioning of existing septic tank system, and replacement with new septic tank and percolation area along with all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221186
19 Jul 2021Conditional
development will consist of a two storey extension to the rear of the existing single storey dwelling. The development will also consist of the decommissioning of existing septic tank system, and replacement with new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211382
19 Feb 2021N/a
the development consists of to construct (1) two storey type dwelling (2) domestic double garage & store (3) proprietary wastewater treatment system (4) site entrance to replace existing agricultural entrance (5) all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21310
12 Mar 2019Conditional
proposed dwelling house, roadside entrance, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA190276
16 Nov 2018N/a
proposed dwelling house, roadside entrance, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA181367
2 Nov 2018N/a
proposed dwelling house, roadside entrance, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA181304
13 Sept 2018Conditional
the construction of a storey and a half house including the installation of a waste water treatment unit and percolation area and new entrance onto the public road
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA181061
28 Mar 2017Conditional
the development will consist of proposed single storey extension to front/side/rear of existing dwelling house, install proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area to serve extended dwelling to replace existing septic tank to be removed and decommissioned with all associated works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA170320
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 Coghalstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coghalstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coghalstown.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coghalstown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coghalstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Coghalstown
- Area
- 2,388,537 m² (238.85 ha, 590.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathkenny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slane Upper
- Electoral division
- Rathkenny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathkenny electoral division: 699 people in 234 households; 94% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Chamberstown, Demailestown, Ladyrath, Wilkinstown
- Placenames
- Coghalstown 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.