Growtown
Townland in the civil parish of Rathbeggan, barony of Ratoath, Co. Meath
- Area
- 119 ha
- 294 acres
- Land parcels
- 86
- registered freehold, median 2,326 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Growtown, from 11 m² to 231,855 m² (23.19 ha, 57.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 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 · 130 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
8 Sept 2026N/a
the development will consist of variations to previously approved (25/106 & 2660032) works as follow.,The provision, for a period of 5-years, of an on-site, drive-in/food take-away facility to cater for the congregation, site construction workers and members of the local community. The temporary structure will consist of a combination of 2 no. repurposed steel shipping containers (overall external dimensions to be, depth 4.8m x width 12.2m x 2.4m height) located to the rear NE boundary of the current car park, which will be fully fitted out internally for the preparation of hot food. The structure will have a single retractable awning facing the main road over the serving hatch and an adjacent outdoor bench seating area, all to be fully bounded by wooden planters
Permission · Meath County Council, 2661122
24 Jul 2026N/a
the Development will consist of a two storey dwelling with Office / Residential Amenity, a suitable wastewater treatment unit, an agricultural storage shed / stables and sand arena with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660932
16 Jul 2026Conditional
the development will consist of variations to the previously approved (25/106 and 2660032) works as follow: - Raising the ridge and parapet heights of the proposed church to match the ridge height of the existing restaurant building to facilitate tiered seating in any future internal mezzanine level development. - Minor variations to the fenestration
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660897
28 Jan 2026Refused
the Development will consist of a two storey dwelling with Office / Residential Amenity, a suitable wastewater treatment unit, an agricultural storage shed / stables and sand arena with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660104
23 Dec 2025Conditional
An increase in the footprint of the church entrance foyer to 4m x 8m internally with the addition a of a glazed canopy over the entrance doors. Alterations to the fenestration to accommodate the alterations to the entrance foyer. The provision of an additional set of double doors to the front ground floor elevation. The provision of PV panels to the flat roof only over the mezzanine section. The omission of the two side wings of the internal mezzanine.
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660032
15 Oct 2024Conditional
the development consists of: Retention of modifications to the existing granted planning permission pl. reg. ref. no.: P.70/420 as follows: (a) As-built single-storey flat roof shed located to the south-west side of the permitted dwelling with a non-habitable floor area of 14.9 m²; (b) As-built single-storey flat roof garage attached to the north-east side of the permitted dwelling with a non-habitable floor area of 41.8 m² replacing the permitted flat roof garage with a non-habitable floor area of 15.5 m²; (c) Total as-built additional non-habitable floor area of 41.2 m² consisting of the increased areas for the as-built shed and garage at ground floor level; (d) Total as-built additional habitable floor area for the dwelling of 31.2 m² consisting of an increase in the as-built floor area of 8.7 m² at ground floor level and 22.5 m² at first floor level; (e) As-built windows and doors to include the following amendments from that permitted: • As-built gable-fronted pitched roof design for the dormer window to the front (south-east facing) elevation replacing the permitted flat roof dormer design; • As-built bay window design to the side (south-west facing) elevation replacing a standard window at ground floor level; • As-built additional full height window to the side (south-west facing) elevation at ground floor level; • As-built 4 no. rooflights installed to the roof on the rear (north-west facing) elevation; (f) Modifications to the internal layout of the permitted dwelling; (g) All associated site development works
Retention · Meath County Council, 2460851
11 Aug 2023Conditional
The development will consist of retention of extension to existing workshop comprising of stores & reception granted under previous Planning Permissions Ref. Nos. P80/207 & P81/731 and for retention of 2 no. workshops, vehicle engine wash store/storage container & vehicle engine wash and office prefab building & parts storage container. Permission is sought to retain and upgrade the existing proprietary sewage treatment system & polishing filter currently on site to serve existing warehouse building and workshops. Permission is sought to install new oil water separators on site and associated site development works.
Permission · Meath County Council, 2360213
15 Feb 2023Conditional
demolition of 2No. bay windows to front elevation and converted garage and subsequent construction of new porch and bay window to front elevation and modifications to fenestration to front and side elevation and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 23140
18 May 2021Conditional
permission to construct a part two storey, part single storey dwelling house, detached garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 21948
28 Apr 2021N/a
permission to construct a part two storey, part single storey dwelling house, detached garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 21798
29 Nov 2019Conditional
a storey and a half type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works.
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, RA191626
29 Oct 2019Conditional
retention of existing garage foundations and concrete screed and permission to complete the construction of new domestic garage to the rear of existing residential property, along with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA191426
14 Oct 2019N/a
retention of existing Garage foundations and conrete screed and permission to complete the construction of new domestic garage to the rear of existing residential property, along with associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, RA191357
22 Jan 2019Conditional
construction a new independent vehicular entrance gateway and access road to access the existing dwelling house, stables and farmyard granted planning permission under planning registry reference DA/70724, the original shared entrance to revert to a sole access to the existing neighbouring house. Realignment and setting back of the hedgerow to the road, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, RA190048
25 Aug 2017Conditional
to demolish the existing storage shed and to construct a single storey prefabricated building consisting of 3 no. Resource Classrooms (approx. 54sqmts in total) and all associated site works, on the hardstanding to the rear of the existing school
Permission · Meath County Council, RA170983
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 20 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
- 1,190,202 m² (119.02 ha, 294.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathbeggan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ratoath
- Electoral division
- Dunshaughlin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunshaughlin electoral division: 8,517 people in 2,904 households; 82% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Porterstown, Powderlough, Rathbeggan, Raynestown, Wilkinstown
- 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.