Gillstown Great
Townland in the civil parish of Rathmore, barony of Lune, Co. Meath; in Irish Baile an Ghiollaigh Mór
- Area
- 153.2 ha
- 379 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 4,680 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gillstown Great, from 30 m² to 635,258 m² (63.53 ha, 156.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 · 70 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 May 2023Conditional
Retention Permission for (a) Existing extensions including, single storey open porch, single storey sunroom and dormer window at first floor level to eastern elevation of existing storey and a half type dwelling. (b) Existing single storey lean-to canopy to southern elevation of existing storey and a half type dwelling. (c) Existing single storey shed and open fronted fuel storage areas to rear of dwelling. (d) Minor elevational changes to that granted planning permission under ref. 87294
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360047
31 Dec 2021Conditional
the development consists of (a) an extension to the rear of the existing house comprising a disabled bathroom and bedroom together with (b) a sunroom to the west of the existing house and replacement of Juliet balcony with walled balcony above sunroom extension. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Retention · Meath County Council, 212431
12 Sept 2017Conditional
construction of a single storey extension to front and side of existing single storey residence including all ancillary site works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA171056
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: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gillstown Great.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gillstown Great.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2481 (ZIP).
- 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 Gillstown Great with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Gillstown Great · Baile an Ghiollaigh Mór
- Area
- 1,531,752 m² (153.18 ha, 378.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Lune
- Electoral division
- Athboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Athboy electoral division: 2,771 people in 1,007 households; 64% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyboy, Curleyland and Mill Land, Fostersfields, Gillstown Little, Hospital Land, Martinstown, Mooneystown
- Placenames
- Gillstown Great 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.