Gilltown

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gilltown, from 176 m² to 387,648 m² (38.76 ha, 95.79 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 81 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 29 Mar 2022Conditional

  a new single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and assoc site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22390

• 30 Mar 2021Refused

  renovation of an extension to the existing dwelling & all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21595

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• ME026-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a steep N-facing slope down to the W-E River Boyne at Brú na Bóinne, with the river c. 330m to the N. The cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a single fosse feature (int. diam. c. 45m; ext. diam. c. 60m) is visible on an OSI aerial image (OS8, 1863). It was first identified by Tom Condit in 2013. See the attached aerial image courtesy of Oliver and Noel Murphy, taken in July 2018 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 August, 2018

• ME026-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight W-E promontory, with a small WSW-ENE streams c. 70m to the N and a WSW-ENE stream c. 25m to the S that curves around to the E and N to join the N stream. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 40m; ext. diam. c. 55m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on an Ordinance Survey aerial photograph (OS8, 1863). It was first identified by Tom Condit in 2013. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload; 17 August 2018

• ME026-035 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a steep N-facing slope down to the W-E River Boyne at Brú na Bóinne, with the river c. 270m to the N. The cropmark of a perfectly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 2-3m) is visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. It has an entrance (Wth c. 5m) at N. The rath (ME026-022----) is c. 75m to the SW. It was first identified by Matthew Mullen-Reynolds. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 31 January 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gilltown.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gilltown.

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.

No address of the register names Gilltown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Gilltown · Baile na nGiollach

Area

1,972,376 m² (197.24 ha, 487.38 acres)

Civil parish

Knockcommon, and its townlands

Barony

Duleek Lower

Electoral division

Painestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Painestown electoral division: 1,260 people in 414 households; 93% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Knockcommon, Lougher, Newgrange, Newtown, Rathdrinagh, Rossnaree

Placenames

Gilltown 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.