Ethelstown
Ethelstown is a townland in the civil parish of Burry, barony of Kells Upper, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is Baile Eitil.
- Area
- 162.4 ha
- 401 acres
- Land parcels
- 69
- registered freehold, median 5,598 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ethelstown, from 515 m² to 160,881 m² (16.09 ha, 39.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 · 96 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
18 Aug 2023Conditional
the development consists of retention of revisions and variations to works previously granted under Ref No's KA160605 and KA201572 and include the following (1) elevation and floor plan alterations to existing two storey dwelling (2) elevations and floor plan alterations to existing single storey domestic garage (3) revised site layout plan (4) revised site boundaries (5) and ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23812
26 May 2022Refused
previous planning ref. no. 21/2190. The development consists of constructing a bungalow type dwelling, 3 bedrooms, domestic garage, new entrance, private well & new sewage treatment system with percolation area also the existing hedge to be removed maintained to create a proper site entrance with unobstructed sightlines and all ancillary site works. (Note: The proposed new entrance enters he townlands of Ethelstown and Garistown)
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22685
18 Nov 2021Refused
constructing a one and a half storey/dormer type, dwelling, 4 bedrooms domestic garage, new entrance, private well & new sewage treatment system with percolation area also the existing hedge to be removed/maintained to create a proper site entrance with unobstructed sightlines and all ancillary site works. (Note: The proposed new entrance enters the townlands of Ethelstown and Garistown)
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 212190
5 Feb 2021Conditional
the development will consist of a change of house design to that previously granted under Reference Number KA160605. The development also includes a new domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21212
22 Dec 2020Conditional
development consists of a 5 bay sheep shed/dry fodder store, revised site boundary and all site works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA202050
28 Oct 2020Unconditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION KA160605 - Two story dwelling and detached domestic garage
Extension of duration, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA201572
24 Nov 2017Conditional
to erect an agricultural slatted shed and associated storage area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA171357
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Girley (Drewstown) Bog SAC 002203
- Natural Heritage Area: Girley Bog NHA 001580
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ethelstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ethelstown.
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 Ethelstown, 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 Ethelstown.
- 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 Ethelstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Ethelstown · Baile Eitil
- Area
- 1,624,349 m² (162.43 ha, 401.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Burry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Electoral division
- Burry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 281 people lived in 91 households in the Burry electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balrath Demesne, Chamberlainstown, Cloncat, Drewstown Great, Garistown, Girley, Rodstown, Scurlockstown
- Placenames
- Ethelstown 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.