Drewstown Little

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drewstown Little, from 223 m² to 358,794 m² (35.88 ha, 88.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 · 82 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Drewstown Little in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299

Recorded monuments

• ME023-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the NE end of a short NE-SW ridge in a low-lying landscape, with the N-S Athboy River c. 60m to the E. This is an oval or subrectangular, domed (H 2.2m at SE to 3.2m at NW) and grass-covered area (dims 49m NE-SW; 34m WNW-ESE) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth of base 6m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) with some bushes across the ridge S-W and by a scarp (at SE: Wth 4m; H 1m; at NW: Wth 2m; H 0.9m) that melds into the natural slope elsewhere. There is an external fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; Wth of base 3.2m) and outer bank (Wth of base 4m; ext. H 0.8m) NW-N. There is a ramp entrance (Wth of base 2.2m) at NE which may be modern. 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 Amended: 23 March 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drewstown Little · Baile Driú Beag

Area

1,928,926 m² (192.89 ha, 476.65 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

Cloncat, Clonleasan, Drewstown Great, Girley, Johnsbrook, Johnstown, Kilkeelan, Killua (Co. Westmeath), Knock Killua (Co. Westmeath), Moygrehan Lower (Co. Westmeath)

Placenames

Drewstown Little 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.