Glascarn

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glascarn, from 7 m² to 487,448 m² (48.74 ha, 120.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 57 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 19 Jun 2025Conditional

  (i) The Demolition of existing single storey semi-detached Storage Shed in rear garden and the proposed construction of (ii) 1st floor extension to side over existing single storey structure with pitched roof to match existing (iii) Two Storey Extension with pitched roof to side of existing extended dwelling, (iv) Single Storey flat roof Extension to rear of existing dwelling, (v) 1 no. Roof-light to the front pitch of existing dwelling roof (vi) internal refurbishment & alterations to existing dwelling structure and fenestration to facilitate the above works and (vii) detached double vehicular bay domestic garage with pitched roof. Retaining existing vehicular entrance and widening/improvement works to existing 2nd vehicular entrance from the L1007 Kilbride Road, provision of new waste water treatment plant & associated percolation area together with all ancillary site works, landscaping and site drainage. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560619

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  construction of a storey & a half style dwelling with detached domestic garage, install a proprietary sewage treatment system and form new entrance from public road. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, RA201293

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Glascarn.

Recorded monuments

• ME045-013 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape with a small W-E stream c. 100m to the N. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 10m) defined by a single fosse is visible on an oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVF 041) from 1968. It is also visible on OSIAP (2005) and Google Earth (24/06/2018). (Feeley 2001, 45-6, No. 35) See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (24/06/2018) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 18 September 2017 Amended: 17 December 2021

• ME045-064 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 55m NE-SW: c. 50-55m NW-SE) defined by fosse or drain features is visible on Google Earth (07/05/2017; 24/06/2018). It is bisected by the cropmark of a N-S drain, and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached image from Google Earth 24/06/2018 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 June 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Glascarn, about 1 in 20 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 Glascarn.

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.

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

Name

Glascarn · Glascharn

Area

1,212,579 m² (121.26 ha, 299.63 acres)

Civil parish

Ratoath, and its townlands

Barony

Ratoath

Electoral division

Ratoath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

11,894 people lived in 3,639 households in the Ratoath electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhack, Jamestown, Legagunnia, Paddock, Peacockstown, Rathcool, Tankardstown

Placenames

Glascarn 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.