# Hamwood, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunboyne, barony of Dunboyne, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,299,010 m² (129.9 ha, 320.99 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 65,207 m² (6.52 ha, 16.11 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunboyne, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/dunboyne.md - Barony: Dunboyne - Electoral division: Dunboyne, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 10,698 people lived in 3,434 households in the Dunboyne electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 6% 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/37779 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160841 - Centre: latitude 53.414301, longitude -6.509852 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hamwood, from 2,125 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 419,248 m² (41.92 ha, 103.6 acres); 31 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 195448: 419,248 m² (41.92 ha, 103.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/195448.md - Parcel 161605: 65,207 m² (6.52 ha, 16.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/161605.md - Parcel 2647785: 2,125 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2647785.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; 34 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 30 Jul 2026, Meath County Council 2660952: N/a. Permission. the development will consist of and application to construct extensions to the existing dwelling to the south, west and east side of the house, comprising bedrooms, kitchen, utility space and an entrance porch. Planning permission is being sought to increase the overall height of the existing house by 1162mm and construct a new roof. Planning permission is being sought to construct a domestic garage and to construct a new waste water treatment system and percolation area to EPA recmmendations, a new water well and all other ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660952/0 - 23 Dec 2025, Meath County Council 25286: Refused. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a single storey, detached, two bedroom, gate lodge, which is to replace the existing two storey, detached, two bedroom gate lodge which is to be demolished, new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area all accessed via the existing vehicular entrance gateway and existing internal access road, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/25286/0 - 5 Sept 2024, Meath County Council 24368: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a two storey detached, replacement dwelling, the partial demolition of the existing dwelling to be replaced, existing ground floor kitchen/dining area to be reutilized (change of use) as farm kitchen and dining with minor elevational changes, existing ground floor utility and plant room to remain, first floor farm office to remain unchanged, new wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter to replace the existing septic tank and percolation area, all accessed via the existing vehicular entrance gateway and existing internal access road, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/24368/0 - 2 Feb 2017, Meath County Council RA170085: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the development will consist of the construction of a two storey detached dwelling house with roof mounted solar panels, detached single storey garden building containing plant and fuel stores, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, alterations to the existing roadside hedgerow to the existing vehicular entrance gateway, new internal access road along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/RA170085/0 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 Hamwood. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Hamwood. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Hamwood. ## 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 Hamwood, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2934, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2934.zip (ZIP). - 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/hamwood.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/hamwood.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/hamwood.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Hamwood 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) - Ballymacoll: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballymacoll.md - Castlefarm: https://everytownland.com/meath/castlefarm.md - Colliersland South: https://everytownland.com/meath/colliersland-south.md - Grange: https://everytownland.com/meath/grange-160808.md - Sarney: https://everytownland.com/meath/sarney.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/hamwood - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/hamwood