Dunderry
Dunderry is a townland in the civil parish of Churchtown, barony of Navan Lower, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is Dún Doire.
- Area
- 99.7 ha
- 246 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 1,392 m²
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunderry, from 438 m² to 509,117 m² (50.91 ha, 125.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 14 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
23 Jul 2026Conditional
the development will consist of construction of an additional GAA pitch by raising existing ground level, pitch fencing, lighting, ball stops, extension to existing access road, carpark, bike stands and all ancillary site development works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660928
4 Nov 2025Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of a new agricultural entrance and the closing up of the existing agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2561188
16 Sept 2020Conditional
construction of a single storey classroom extension with ancillary accommodations and associated site work
Permission · Meath County Council, NA201285
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 Dunderry.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dunderry.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dunderry.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Dunderry, about 1 in 10 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 Dunderry.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Dunderry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Dunderry · Dún Doire
- Area
- 997,379 m² (99.74 ha, 246.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Churchtown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Navan Lower
- Electoral division
- Ardbraccan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,363 people lived in 757 households in the Ardbraccan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballardan Great, Churchtown, Meadstown, Philpotstown
- Placenames
- Dunderry 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.