Garrynabolie
Townland in the civil parish of Moylagh, barony of Fore, Co. Meath
- Area
- 100 ha
- 247 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 6,855 m² (0.69 ha, 1.69 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrynabolie, from 45 m² to 100,529 m² (10.05 ha, 24.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 50 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
11 May 2026Conditional
the development for Retention consists of: Retention for revisions to layouts of dwelling and detached domestic garage, revisions to site boundaries, vehicular entrance, agricultural entrance and agricultural access lane all as granted permission under KA60176. The development for Permission will consist of: Proposed construction of stables, dungstead, effluent tank, and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 26133
13 Aug 2025Conditional
the development will consist of the following: (A) Retention (1) Retention of elevation and floor plan alterations to existing dormer type bungalow (2) basement storage / utility/ home office area (3) site layout and site location and ancillary site works (4) all different from that previously approved under planning Reference KA70047. (B) Planning permission (1) To complete development of dormer type dwelling over basement (substantially completed and currently at first fix stage) (2) to construct a detached domestic garage and fuel store, (3) to install sewerage treatment unit and percolation area (4) all ancillary site development works
Retention · Meath County Council, 2560842
21 Oct 2021Conditional
to change the use of existing detached domestic garage from domestic to commercial use together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 212031
4 Feb 2021Conditional
permission to retain detached domestic garage and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21186
12 Jan 2021N/a
permission to retain detached domestic garage and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2132
15 Dec 2020N/a
to retain detached domestic garage and all associated site works at Garrynabolie, Dromone, Oldcastle, Co Meath
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201950
29 Oct 2020N/a
the proposed development will consist of: construct a part single storey/part storey and a half style split level dwelling and detached domestic garage, form new entrance from public road, install waste water treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201574
23 Sept 2020N/a
permission for retention of domestic garage
Retention · Meath County Council, KA201333
24 Jan 2020Conditional
to construct a one and a half storied type dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, installing a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area and to make a new entrance onto the road along with all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA200069
29 Mar 2019N/a
(1) construction of detached part single part two storey agricultural building incorporating stables, kennels, tackroom, hay storage area, office, sanitary facilities, with adjacent manure pit and washings tank (2) formation of new vehicular access and amendments and alterations to existing laneway incorporating the creation of 2 no. pull in points on existing laneway (3) installation of 2 no. proprietary treatment systemss and percolation area (4) completion of all ancillary and associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA190368
2 Jul 2018Conditional
a new detached four bedroom bungalow and detached garage, waste water treatment plant and percolation area, new vehicular entrance off the public road and ancillary site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA180721
19 Jun 2018N/a
construction of a new detached four bedroom bungalow and detached garage, waste water treatment plant and percolation area, new vehicular entrance off the public road and ancillary site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA180657
17 Jul 2017Conditional
(1) construction of agricultural building incorporating stables, dungstead and dry feed store and washings tank. (2) Alterations and amendments to existing road entrance. (3) Retaining wall and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA170834
27 Jun 2017N/a
(1) construction of agricultural building incorporating stables, dungstead and dry feed store and washings tank. (2) Alterations and amendments to existing road entrance. (3) Retaining wall and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA170738
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 Garrynabolie.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Garrynabolie.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Mary's, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey presbytery, built c.1920, with full-height canted bay windows flanking entrance door. Hipped slate roof with ashlar chimneystacks. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls. Timber sash windows set in segmental-arched openings with stone sills. Extended to rear. Outbuildings to site. Octagonal stone gate piers with cast-iron gate.
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached cruciform-plan church, built 1834, with sacristy to south. Pitched slate roof with ridge cresting and stone cross finials. Rendered walls with limestone quoins, plaques and eaves course. Stained glass windows with carved timber tracery set in pointed arch openings having limestone dressings and hood mouldings. Interior retains many original features and materials. Rubble stone walls with stone gate piers and cast-iron gates, bounding graveyard and church.
- Handball alley, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
Description
H-plan handball alley, built c.1920, now disused, with two courts. Rendered walls. Stone piers with cast-iron double gates to site.
- Rockwood, farm house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1850, flanked by single-storey outbuildings to north and south. Pitched slate roofs with stone chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Replacement sash windows and door. Stone and corrugated- iron outbuildings ranged around farmyard to rear. Cast-iron water pump to front site. Wrought-iron gate to pedestrian entrance.
- House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Pair semi-detached two-bay single-storey houses with attic accommodation, built c.1860, with central projecting porch with pair of entrances to rear. Now in use as single detached dwelling. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rooflights, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with render quoins. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Stone outbuilding to rear. Rubble stone wall to front, with pair of cast-iron pedestrian gates.
- Farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey farmhouse with attic accommodation, built c.1820, with entrance porch. Pitched corrugated-fibre cement roof with brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with render platbands and dressings to window openings. Timber battened door and timber sash windows. Extension to west. Stone outbuilding to yard and stone outbuilding to south-east on opposite side of the road.
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
- 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 Garrynabolie.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Garrynabolie with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Garrynabolie
- Area
- 999,689 m² (99.97 ha, 247.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moylagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fore
- Electoral division
- Moylagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moylagh electoral division: 423 people in 166 households; 87% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Garrynabolie 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.