Gaskinstown
Gaskinstown is a townland in the civil parish of Duleek, barony of Duleek Lower, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is Baile Ghaiscean.
- Area
- 128.4 ha
- 317 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 32,307 m² (3.23 ha, 7.98 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gaskinstown, from 500 m² to 210,937 m² (21.09 ha, 52.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 · 40 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
17 Jan 2020Conditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION LB140678 - Construction of a storey & a half residence, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system, & all associated site works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB200044
10 Apr 2019Conditional
conversion of derelict dwelling house back into a habitable dwelling house, proposed extension to sides and rear of same house, new front porch and new roof to the existing structure, associated internal alterations, new treatment system and polishing filter, use of existing vehicular entrance to serve the dwelling house and associated site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, LB190423
27 Mar 2019N/a
conversion of derelict dwelling house back into a habitable dwelling house, proposed extension to sides and rear of same house, new front porach and new roof to the existing structure, associated internal alterations, new treatment system and polishing filter, use of existing vehicular entrance to serve the dwelling house and associated site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, LB190345
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 Gaskinstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gaskinstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gaskinstown.
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 Gaskinstown, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gaskinstown.
- 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 Gaskinstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Gaskinstown · Baile Ghaiscean
- Area
- 1,283,507 m² (128.35 ha, 317.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duleek, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duleek Lower
- Electoral division
- Duleek, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 6,250 people lived in 2,005 households in the Duleek electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Deenes, Garballagh, Mullaghfin, Reask, Sneeoge
- Placenames
- Gaskinstown 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.