# Glascarn, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ratoath, barony of Ratoath, Co. Meath; in Irish Glascharn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,212,579 m² (121.26 ha, 299.63 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,101 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ratoath, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/ratoath.md - Barony: Ratoath - Electoral division: Ratoath, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37980 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160780 - Centre: latitude 53.490008, longitude -6.445674 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glascarn, from 7 m² to 487,448 m² (48.74 ha, 120.45 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 194594: 487,448 m² (48.74 ha, 120.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/194594.md - Parcel 158341: 301,384 m² (30.14 ha, 74.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/158341.md - Parcel 151971: 240,904 m² (24.09 ha, 59.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/151971.md - Parcel 158342: 57,908 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/158342.md - Parcel 197514: 29,889 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/197514.md - Parcel 199059: 15,648 m² (1.56 ha, 3.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/199059.md - Parcel 174999: 12,401 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/174999.md - Parcel 4775361: 4,869 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4775361.md - Parcel 206002: 4,446 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/206002.md - Parcel 186447: 4,121 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/186447.md - Parcel 152517: 4,107 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/152517.md - Parcel 213826: 3,919 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/213826.md - Parcel 783416: 3,423 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/783416.md - Parcel 3045213: 3,421 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3045213.md - Parcel 150824: 3,375 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/150824.md - Parcel 2450748: 3,162 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2450748.md - Parcel 205927: 3,102 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/205927.md - Parcel 161577: 3,099 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/161577.md - Parcel 5729470: 2,881 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5729470.md - Parcel 211098: 2,808 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/211098.md - Parcel 152700: 2,468 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/152700.md - Parcel 215724: 2,259 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/215724.md - Parcel 4673250: 2,194 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4673250.md - Parcel 148488: 2,167 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/148488.md - Parcel 208268: 2,145 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/208268.md - Parcel 197859: 2,038 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/197859.md - Parcel 154749: 1,994 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/154749.md - Parcel 3759838: 1,592 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3759838.md - Parcel 204821: 1,522 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/204821.md - Parcel 151741: 1,305 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/151741.md - Parcel 209439: 358 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/209439.md - Parcel 201022: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/201022.md - Parcel 150949: 61 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/150949.md - Parcel 3045090: 7 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3045090.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - 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: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 19 Jun 2025, Meath County Council 2560619: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560619/0 - 18 Sept 2020, Meath County Council RA201293: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/RA201293/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Glascarn. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - ME045-013: Ring-ditch, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME045-013----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME045-064----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glascarn. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/meath/glascarn.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/glascarn.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/glascarn.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Glascarn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyhack: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballyhack-160128.md - Jamestown: https://everytownland.com/meath/jamestown-160892.md - Legagunnia: https://everytownland.com/meath/legagunnia.md - Paddock: https://everytownland.com/meath/paddock.md - Peacockstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/peacockstown.md - Rathcool: https://everytownland.com/meath/rathcool.md - Tankardstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/tankardstown-161538.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/meath/glascarn - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/glascarn