Growtown
Townland in the civil parish of Ballymaglassan, barony of Ratoath, Co. Meath
- Area
- 85.6 ha
- 212 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 89,946 m² (8.99 ha, 22.23 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Growtown, from 2,627 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) to 212,172 m² (21.22 ha, 52.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 · 23 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
5 Mar 2026Refused
The development will consist of a proposed rural enterprise consisting of two sauna pods including hot tubs and ice baths, new outdoor shower facilities, bin store, bicycle store and parking facilities. The proposed change of use of an existing agricultural cow shed to changing facilities, reception area, toilet, storage and plant facilities, a proposed wastewater disposal system, a proposed entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660257
17 Dec 2021Conditional
existing dormer bungalow, domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area to include amendments to the house, garage and site layout plan from that previously approved under planning permission reg. ref. DA/50076 & DA/30331
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 212358
29 Nov 2019Conditional
the construction of a two storey style dwelling, detached domestic garage, 7no. equine stables, the installation of a wastewater disposal system, new site entrance and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, RA191623
22 Dec 2017Conditional
a storey and a half style dwelling with detached domestic garage, a domestic effluent treatment system and percolation area, a new domestic site entrance, and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA171524
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 Growtown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Growtown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Growtown.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Growtown.
- 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 Growtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Growtown
- Area
- 856,247 m² (85.62 ha, 211.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymaglassan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ratoath
- Electoral division
- Culmullin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Culmullin electoral division: 1,283 people in 379 households; 93% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Growtown 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.