Harlockstown

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Harlockstown, from 45 m² to 573,617 m² (57.36 ha, 141.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 91 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 29 May 2026Conditional

  the development consists of the retention of alterations to rear extension approved under Reg. Ref. 98/564 comprising a pitched roof area over the approved extension; internal alterations and stairs to new attic rooms, the addition of the roof window at the front and two roof windows at the rear; installation of new patent wastewater treatment system, and all associated works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 26150

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  construction of a new detached storey and a half dwelling house, waste water treatment plant and percolation area, storm water percolation area, with new vehicular access off Harlockstown Lane. The application will also include a flood risk assessment. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360506

• 10 Dec 2023N/a

  Construction of a new detached storey and a half dwelling house, waste water treatment plant and percolation area, storm water percolation area, with new vehicular access off Harlockstown Lane. The application will also include a flood risk assessment

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360459

• 14 Mar 2023Conditional

  (1) demolition of existing detached shed and existing rear extension to existing cottage, (2) construction of a rear extension to existing cottage, (3) conversion of existing cottage to a family flat, (4) modified entrance driveway as per Reg. Ref. RA/180986, (5) a new detached double garage to the rear of the site, (6) replacement of existing septic tank with a new WWTS and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23267

• 24 Feb 2023N/a

  a two storey rear extension to existing cottage and converstion of existing cottage to a family flat. Modified entrance driveway as per Reg. Ref. RA/140680, a new detached double garage and replacement of existing septic tank with a new WWTS and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23196

• 25 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of a storey and a half extension to the side of an existing house, a domestic garage to the rear of the property and all associated works. The retention of the children's activity play area and the upgrading of the sewerage system. Significant Further information/Revised plans submitted on this application.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22386

• 21 Apr 2021Refused

  the construction of a storey and a half extension to the side of an existing house, a shed to the rear of the property and all associated works . Significant Further information/Revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21744

• 1 Sept 2017Conditional

  removal of existing kitchen extension & detached domestic outhouses, erection of single storey extension to rear & side of house, renovations to existing house, detached domestic garage, new secondary wastewater treatment system & soil polishing filter area, decommissioning of existing septic tank, close up existing entrance & open new domestic entrance onto public road & all ancillary site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA171011

• 4 May 2017Conditional

  a 10 year planning permission for construction of a solar PV farm within a site area of 54.57 hectares and will consist of 31.5 MW solar farm comprising photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, 14 no. single storey MV substations, 1no. single storey DSO substation. 1 no. single storey customer substation. 1 no. single storey spares building, 1 no. communications pole, boundary security fencing, CCTV, associated electrical cabling and ducting, provision of access tracks, access gates and all associated ancillary development and landscaping works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA170479

• 12 Apr 2017N/a

  a 10 year planning permission for construction of a solar PV farm within a site area of 54.57 hectares and will consist of 31.5 MW solar farm comprising photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, 14 no. single storey MV substations, 1no. single storey DSO substation. 1 no. single storey customer substation. 1 no. single storey spares building, 1 no. communications pole, boundary security fencing, CCTV, associated electrical cabling and ducting, provision of access tracks, access gates and all associated ancillary development and landscaping works

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA170384

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Harlockstown.

Recorded monuments

• ME045-034 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a N-facing slope down to a small W-E tributary on the S side of the Broad Meadow River. This monument was first identified in a geophysical survey (02R0051) by GBS Prospection in advance of the N2 Finglas – Ashbourne road and by-pass, and confirmed in archaeological testing (03E1526) by M. McKinstry and L. McGowan of Testing Area 19. Archaeological excavation under the same licence from January to June 2004 by D. J. O’Connor at Site 19 recorded a complex of prehistoric and early historic features (excavations.ie 2004:1249). The Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age is represented by some pits with appropriate lithics, and a trench and post-hole, the latter two with Beaker pottery. This ditch-barrow, consisting of a circular area (diam. c. 30m E-W; c. 27.5m N-S) defined by a continuous fosse (Wth c. 3.2m; D 0.55m), was created around a central pit with the cremated remains of an adult male. This had its own marker in a post-hole with Beaker pottery that produced a C14 date of 2400-2130 cal. BC. The ditch was filled with various layers of silts and clay, with lenses of iron-panning suggestive of periods with stagnant water. A sample from the base of the ditch produced a C14 date of 2140-1820 cal. BC and one from the middle a date of 1960-1690 cal. BC. A large pit (dims 3m x 2m plus; D 0.56m) pre-dating the barrow was cut by its fosse at NE, but its only find, a deer antler, was in a later re-cut. At a late stage the silted ditch was re-cut with a narrower trench (Wth 1m; D 0.3m), only clearly visible at SW. Two other pits with cremated remains and two pits with some finished flint blades and debitage probably also relate to the ditch barrow although not actually within it. Two crouched inhumations with Bowl Food Vessels, each marked with its own post and one of which produced a C14 date of 2120-1870 cal. BC, were inserted into the barrow. An oval pit towards the NE edge of the barrow was originally stone-lined and contained the crouched inhumation of an adult lying on its left side with the Food Vessel behind the head. Another stone-lined pit at the NW edge of the barrow also had an adult inhumation, which was crouched and lying on its left side. The skull rested on a large stone and the Food Vessel was behind the skull. In addition the cremated remains of a juvenile that were spread within the ditch fill could be redeposited from the interior as the first burial disturbed earlier pits. The stray femur of an adolescent that was found redeposited in a later context might also be from this phase. At least two other pits could be related to this phase although not directly linked to features that positively are. (O’Connor 2008, 21-27) See the attached plan (N at top left) from O'Connor (2008, fig. 10) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 December 2021 O’Connor, D. J. 2008 N2 Finglas – Ashbourne Road Scheme. Report on archaeological excavation of Site 19 Harlockstown, County Meath. Licence No. 03E1526. Unpublished report, CRDS (V 1 text)

• ME045-034001 Metalworking site
  Description

  Metalworking site (max. OD 71m) 2 encl on top; rgdh on N slope): Situated at the crest of a N-facing slope down to a small W-E tributary on the S side of the Broad Meadow River in a fairly level landscape. Archaeological excavation (03E1526) from January to June 2004 by D. J. O’Connor at Site 19 in advance of the N2 Finglas – Ashbourne road and by-pass recorded a complex of prehistoric and early historic features (excavations.ie 2004:1249). The Iron Age is represented by the ring-ditch (ME045-034002-) and the results of metalworking, including bowl furnaces, pits, linear features, hearths, a large burnt spread, a possible wind-break, a keyhole kiln, and work floors. These are located largely at the crest of the slope and produced large quantities of slag, vitrified ash, clay moulds and furnace walls. A metaled surface (dims 15.5m x 7.7m) surviving over the W part of the ditch barrow (ME045-034----) probably relates to this phase as a bone sample from it produced a C14 date of 50 cal. BC – 70 cal. AD. Evidence of metalworking is spread over the entire area between the ditch barrow and the ring-ditch (ME045-034002-) as discrete hearths or pits with slag or furnace bottoms, and two slot-trenches, one of which may have served as a wind-break. Connections between discrete features are difficult to establish stratigraphically but there is a concentration of pits in the vicinity of the ditch barrow, some of which are in the upper fill of its fosse at N. A C14 date from one of these contexts is 840-520 cal. BC while the dates can range down to 200-40 cal. BC for a pit in the same area. Another pit produced a date of 120 cal. BC – 130 cal. AD, and a furnace bottom is dated 100 cal. BC-130 cal. AD, placing the metalworking activity in the Early Iron Age. Filling the top of the fosse on the E side of the ditch barrow was a layer (max. dims 14. 4m x 4.5m; D 0.15m) with charcoal, burnt stone, animal bone and pottery. This is interpreted as the last remnant of a mound of waste that was levelled when the rath (ME045-034003-) was built, and its material recurs as a re-deposit in later contexts. Four hearths (dims 0.3m to 0.7m x 0.9m) were c. 20m E of the ditch barrow and are associated with a curving slot-trench (Wth 0.43m; D 0.27m; L 7.8m) which is thought to be a wind-break on their W side. The hearths were unlined and no stake-holes were present but slag was plentiful. The hearths were just W of a well-constructed, sunken and subrectangular metaled floor (dims 11.2m x 9m) with rounded corners that sloped down (H 0.4m) to the W, with a drain (L 14.7m) extending N from its NW angle. A flint flake, a copper alloy needle and a bead were recovered from its surface together with slag and vitrified fuel ash. The surface was sealed by two deposits with some animal bone, charcoal and slag, but silt was a significant element in the lower fill, suggesting that it may have remained open until the upper fill was added in the early medieval period when the construction of the rath (ME045-034003-) was under way. (O’Connor 2008, 27-47) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 December 2021

• ME045-034002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a gentle N-facing slope down to a small W-E tributary on the S side of the Broad Meadow River in a fairly level landscape. Archaeological excavation (03E1526) from January to June 2004 by D. J. O’Connor at Site 19 in advance of the N2 Finglas – Ashbourne road and by-pass recorded a complex of prehistoric and early historic features (excavations.ie 2004:1249). The Iron Age is represented by metalworking (ME045-034001-) and this ring-ditch which was placed downslope from the centre of the metalworking and is c. 30m N of the ditch-barrow (ME045-034----). It was badly eroded but consists of a circular area (int. diam. 7.85m) defined by a fosse (Wth 0.7m; D 0.45m) with no evidence of either an inner mound or outer bank. There was no evidence of burials and no artefacts were recovered. There was no evidence of a doorway, roof supports in the form of post-holes, or a hearth but a light brown silty clay with charcoal flecks in the interior is interpreted as the possible floor of a hut-site. The ditch had four contexts with charcoal present and it produced a lot of flint, which it is thought might be redeposited, and some animal bones. A sample from the basal layer of the ditch produced a C14 date of 180 cal. BC – 30 cal. AD. (O’Connor 2008, 32-3) See the attached plan (N at top left) from O'Connor (2008, fig. 10) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 December 2021 O’Connor, D. J. 2008 N2 Finglas – Ashbourne Road Scheme. Report on archaeological excavation of Site 19 Harlockstown, County Meath. Licence No. 03E1526. Unpublished report, CRDS (V 1 text)

• ME045-034003 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a N-facing slope down to a small W-E tributary on the S side of of the Broad Meadow River in a fairly level landscape, and it is just E of the ditched barrow (ME045-034----). Archaeological excavation (03E1526) from January to June 2004 by D. J. O’Connor at Site 19 in advance of the N2 Finglas – Ashbourne road and by-pass recorded a complex of prehistoric and early historic features (excavations.ie 2004:1249). The Early Medieval period is represented by a D-shaped enclosure (max. int. dims c. 21m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE) defined by a single V-shaped ditch (Wth c. 1.75m; D 0.58-0.85m) with a possible entrance (Wth c. 5m) at S where the fosse narrows to a slot-trench. No internal features can be associated with the fosse but it is connected with elements of a field system that extends off to the E. The straight sides are at NE and NW, and the latter truncates slightly the fosse of the ditched-barrow. Samples from the enclosure ditch produced a C14 date of 600-710 cal. AD. All the features were cut by modern drains running down the slope. (O’Connor 2008, 49-54) See the attached plan (N at top left) from O'Connor (2008, fig. 10) compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 December 2021 O’Connor, D. J. 2008 N2 Finglas – Ashbourne Road Scheme. Report on archaeological excavation of Site 19 Harlockstown, County Meath. Licence No. 03E1526. Unpublished report, CRDS (V 1 text)

• ME045-035 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape with a small canalised W-E stream that flows into the Broad Meadow River at Donaghmore c. 3km to the E just to the S. Archaeological deposits, later designated as Site 20, were initially identified by D. Bonner in archaeological testing (03E1310) in advance of the N2 Finglas – Ashbourne road and by-pass. The material was subsequently excavated within the road-take by C. Murray under the same licence (excavations.ie 2004:1248). An irregularly shaped homogenous spread of broken and burnt stone (max. dims 19.3m N-S; 9.7m E-W; T 0.03-0.23m) overlaid four troughs, two of which were partially lined with alder. At the S end an oval trough (dims 1.37m x 0.9m; max. D 0.29m) with the remnants of four wooden planks in the base was filled with a black clayey silt, decayed stones and charcoal. A second oval trough (dims 1.35m NE-SW; 1.09m NW-SE; max. D 0.28m) just to the S partly truncated the lower trough. This trough was filled with a deposit of stone that was probably the last use of the fulacht fia. At the N of the area two troughs were 0.8m apart. An oval trough (dims 1.05m x 0.51m plus; D 0.22m) was only partially excavated and has a charcoal-rich clayey silt at the bottom beneath a silty clay. Just 0.8m to the NE an oval trough (dims 1.3m NE-SW; 1m NW-SE; D 0.23m) had five planks of alder in its base beneath a fill of black clayey silt with decayed stone and charcoal. Only one artefact was recovered, a small side-scraper, from the covering mound. Samples from the basal fills of two of the troughs produced C14 determinations of 2290-1970 cal. BC and 2300-2050 cal. BC. (Murray and O’Carroll 2008) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 December 2021

• ME045-039 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated in a hollow on a gently undulating landscape. Archaeological testing (03E1237) by D. Boner of Area 31 in advance of the N2 bypass of Ashbourne identified a trough and burnt mound material (Boner and Hackett 2003) which was excavated by C. Murray under the same licence (excavations.ie 2004:1247) in the confined area between a NE-SW field drain and bank at SE and the N-S boundary of the land-take at W. It consists of a subcircular trough (dims 1.15m NE-SW; 0.8m NW-SE; D 0.17m) which was filled with a charcoal-rich clay that contained burnt and broken stone. Just 2.6m to the SW was a mound (dims 2.1m N-S; 1.6m E-W; max. D 0.26m) of broken and burnt stone in a shallow cut that was truncated by a field drain at S but extended outside the road-take to the W. Detached spreads of burnt mound material lay 2.1m to the NE (dims 0.65m x 0.26m) and 3m NW (0.65m x 0.52m) of the trough, and post-medieval furrows run NW-SE through the earlier features. No artefacts were recovered, and no radiocarbon dates are available. (Murray 2008) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 December 2021

• ME045-047 Enclosure
  Description

  Located at the crest of a N-facing slope down to a small calalised W-E trributary of the Broad Meadow River. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a fosse is visible as a crop mark on Digital Globe (2011-13). There are traces of a second outer fosse W-NW. It was first reported by T. Condit. See the attached enhanced view from Ditital Globe Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013 Amended: 21 December 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Harlockstown.

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).

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 Harlockstown.

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.

No address of the register names Harlockstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Harlockstown · Baile Harlóg

Area

1,551,437 m² (155.14 ha, 383.37 acres)

Civil parish

Ratoath, and its townlands

Barony

Ratoath

Electoral division

Ratoath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ratoath electoral division: 11,894 people in 3,639 households; 84% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baltrasna, Killegland, Kilrue, Rathcool, Raystown

Placenames

Harlockstown 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.