Hanlonstown
Townland in the civil parish of Ardbraccan, barony of Navan Lower, Co. Meath; in Irish Baile an Halúnaigh
- Area
- 131.4 ha
- 325 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 3,927 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hanlonstown, from 8 m² to 216,360 m² (21.64 ha, 53.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 · 79 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
18 Dec 2025Conditional
to extend an underground exploration tunnel within Hanlonstown, Gainstown and Curraghtown Townlands, Navan, County Meath. The development will consist of extending the existing TRDEX underground exploration tunnel by approximately 3.0 kilometres through hard rock, from a depth of approximately 1,020 to 1,200 metres below ground level. The purpose of this extension is to facilitate exploration drilling and resource definition for the deposit known as Tara Deep. The proposed development will be carried out in three phases: Phase 1 will extend the existing exploration tunnel by approximately 450 m; Phase 2 will involve construction of a tunnel to the east, perpendicular to existing tunnel with a spiral decline of approximately 1,900 m; and Phase 3 will involve construction of a parallel tunnel to the west approximately 600 m. Ancillary bays and cubbies will also be developed as smaller tunnels to facilitate exploration drilling. No surface works, ore extraction or processing will be undertaken as part of this development. Access will be from the existing underground mine. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the planning application. Significant Further Information/Revised Plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 2561391
23 Nov 2024Conditional
planning application for permission for the renovation, modification and extension of existing single storey detached dwelling to include demolition of existing adjoining garage/ outbuildings, internal & external alterations, creation of new first floor extension and provision of new replacement waste water treatment system and percolation area including all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2461015
16 Sept 2021Conditional
a single storey house, detached domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, soil polishing filter area, new entrance onto public road & all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211824
1 Sept 2021Conditional
a single-storey extension to the front of the existing dwelling, conversion of the attic to living accommodation including modifications to the roof, alterations to existing elevations, internal alterations and upgrades; alterations to site layout, connected to all existing services. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 211695
6 May 2021Refused
a single storey house, detached domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, soil polishing filter area, new entrance onto public road & all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21862
19 Mar 2021Conditional
for the retention of existing 1.5 storey dwelling with attached garage and revised site layout plan to include amendments to the house, garage and site layout plan from that previously approved under planning permission reg. ref NA/900590
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21510
27 Aug 2020Conditional
the proposal involves the development of two ventilation shafts that will provide ventilation to an underground exploration tunnel and enable further exploration. The development works will consist of: Raise-bore drilling two vertical 4.5-meter diameter shafts (to be known as Return Air Raise (RAR) 6 and RAR 7) reamed from a depth below ground of c. 1,000 meters to surface. The proposed shafts will connect to an underground fan station that will draw air from the extant exploration tunnel and exhaust it to surface. At surface level, the development site will occupy an area of approximately 90 m x 120 m bounded by a 2.5 m high boundary fence, service and access roads and all ancillary site works. Each shaft will be fitted with a deflection hood (5.7 m x 5.7 m x 8.8 m) that will direct airflow horizontally into a 6.5 m earthen berm. An Environmental Report for the development will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the planning application. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) for the development has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the planning application
Permission · Meath County Council, NA201153
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 Hanlonstown.
Recorded monuments
- ME025-070 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a fairly level landscape. The vegetation mark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 35-38m) in pasture is defined by a fosse feature, with an outer fosse traceable c. 5m distant E-S-SW (ext. diam. c. 60m). It is only visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018), and was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached view from Google Earth (14/07/2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 July, 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Hanlonstown.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2673 (ZIP).
- 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 Hanlonstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Hanlonstown · Baile an Halúnaigh
- Area
- 1,314,143 m² (131.41 ha, 324.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardbraccan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Navan Lower
- Electoral division
- Ardbraccan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardbraccan electoral division: 2,363 people in 757 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balreask Old, Boyerstown, Commons, Curraghtown, Duncansland, Gainstown
- Placenames
- Hanlonstown 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.