Drewstown Great

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drewstown Great, from 1,170 m² to 426,605 m² (42.66 ha, 105.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 · 51 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Dec 2025Refused

  the development to be retained comprises the refurbishment and extension of Drewstown Cottage including single storey ground floor extensions to the front West and rear East of the cottage, removal of the existing roof to facilitate the construction of new first floor dormer accommodation, and replacement of removed roof with a new roof over new first floor. All repairs, alterations and ancillary site works to be retained. The cottage is located within the curtilage of Drewstown House, a protected structure in the Meath County Development Plan

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561367

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: Girley (Drewstown) Bog SAC 002203
• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Natural Heritage Area: Girley Bog NHA 001580

Recorded monuments

• ME023-013 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape and on the demesne of Drewstown House, which is c. 850m to the SW. A large stone (max. dims c. 3.25m x c. 1.42m; T c. 0.6m) was described (Adams 1958, 55-6) as lying separate from and probably to the NW of a large roofstone (dims c. 3.95m x c. 2.64m; T 0.75m) that was supported on two or three stones, one of which was broken. The tomb had been briefly described but not drawn by the antiquarian Austin Cooper c. 1790 (Price 1942, 125), and it was removed in land reclamation c. 1964. Herity (1974, 244) lists it amongst the passage tombs of Co. Meath. 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: 27 February 2019

• ME023-021 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. It is depicted as a circular tree-ring on the 1836 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch map, and is visible as an enclosure defined by at least two fosse features on Google Earth (24/03/2017; 17/01/2020). See the attached view from Google Earth 17//01/2020) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 February 2019

Architectural heritage

• Drewstown House, country house, 1730–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay three-storey country house, built c.1745, with three-bay central breakfront and later single-storey porch addition. Curved full-height projecting bay to east elevation. Hipped slate roof with carved limestone parapet and rendered chimneystacks. Ashlar limestone walls with quoins. Carved limestone and block-and-start surrounds to window openings. Timber panelled door with fanlight, flanked by engaged Ionic columns and pilaster, with cornice above.

• Drewstown House, stables, 1730–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ranges of former stables set around a central courtyard, comprising of range to the west c.1745, range to the north c.1850 and range to the east c.1870. Pitched slate roofs. Stone walls with dressings to the openings. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Related outbuildings and remains of former walled garden to the site.

• Drewstown House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1730–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two pairs of ashlar limestone gate piers, built c.1745, with cast-iron double and single gates. Chamfered ashlar limestone with carved detailing and caps. Set in dressed limestone walls.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drewstown Great · Baile Driú Mór

Area

2,273,298 m² (227.33 ha, 561.74 acres)

Civil parish

Girley, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Girley, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Girley electoral division: 458 people in 155 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Chamberlainstown, Cloncat, Clonleasan, Drewstown Little, Ethelstown, Girley, Johnsbrook

Placenames

Drewstown Great 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.