Crakenstown

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crakenstown, from 265 m² to 235,882 m² (23.59 ha, 58.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 · 41 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 6 Feb 2025Conditional

  the Proposed development will consist of an amendment to previously approved planning application (AA201054) comprising the relocation of the customer substation, omission of 2no. battery units and replacement with storage units as well as the inclusion of a biodiversity corridor and gate within field no. 7 and change in lifetime of the permission from 5 to 10 years

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560112

• 4 Aug 2020Conditional

  the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, new access tracks, underground cabling, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, a temporary construction compound, battery storage containers, power transformer stations and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works

  Permission · Meath County Council, AA201054

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 Crakenstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crakenstown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Crakenstown, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Crakenstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Crakenstown

Area

1,162,053 m² (116.21 ha, 287.15 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbrew, and its townlands

Barony

Ratoath

Electoral division

Kilbrew, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,064 people lived in 1,253 households in the Kilbrew electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackwater, Bodeen, Cabinhill, Crickstown, Doghtog, Loughlinstown

Placenames

Crakenstown 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.