Hawkinstown
Hawkinstown is a townland in the civil parish of Piercetown, barony of Duleek Upper, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is Baile Háicín.
- Area
- 106.6 ha
- 263 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 2,956 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hawkinstown, from 211 m² to 551,283 m² (55.13 ha, 136.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 39 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
4 Sept 2026N/a
the development will consist of an amendement to the previously granted two storey dwelling house granted under Planning Registry Reference 24/407 the amendement will consist of a single storey orangery to the side of the house inlieu of the original proposed bay window
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 26201
10 Oct 2024Conditional
the construction of a two storey, detached, farm dwelling house, detached garage with plant room and storage, new vehicular entrance at the location of the existing field gate, hedgerows on either side to be cut back or set back as necessary, new internal access road, new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 24407
21 Jun 2023Conditional
permission consequent on a grant of outline permission reference no: AA/200295 for a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, joint access road to site and all associated site works. Permission also sought for detached domestic garage
Permission consequent, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23636
14 Jun 2023N/a
permission consequent on a grant of outline permission reference no: AA/200295 for a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, joint access road to site and all associated site works. Permission also sought for detached domestic garage
Permission consequent, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23617
9 Jun 2023Conditional
The proposed development shall include a three bed single family passive house, agricultural facilities, effluent treatment system & percolation area, and all associated works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360086
10 Feb 2023Conditional
the importation and insertion of c.56,997 tonnes of excavation spoil, over a three-five year period and not exceeding 25,000 tonnes in a single year. The excavation spoil comprises of natural inert materials of clay, soil, silt, sand, gravel and stone for infilling and recontouring purposes for agricultural improvement. On site equipment includes: - Site wheel wash; - Mobile portacabin welfare facilities; - Material inspection and quaratine area; There is no planned removal of hedge line vegetation on the perimeter of the site. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 23120
2 Feb 2023N/a
the importation and insertion of c.56,997 tonnes of excavation spoil, over a three-five year period and not exceeding 25,000 tonnes in a single year. The excavation spoil comprises of natural inert materials of clay, soil, silt, sand, gravel and stone for infilling and recontouring purposes for agricultural improvement. On site equipment includes: - Site wheel wash; - Mobile portacabin welfare facilities; - Material inspection and quaratine area; There is no planned removal of hedge line vegetation on the perimeter of the site
Permission · Meath County Council, 2396
16 Dec 2022Refused
a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221648
27 Apr 2022Refused
the development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a Solar PV Energy Development with a total site area of 124.07 hectares, to include: Inverter/Transformer Substations, modules, solar PV ground mounted on support structures, temporary construction compounds, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works relating to the access of the site. The solar farm will be operational for 35-years. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of this planning application. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 22552
7 Apr 2022Refused
a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22440
24 Mar 2022N/a
a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22374
18 Oct 2021Refused
a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 212018
6 Aug 2021Conditional
(1) Construction of an agricultural machinery storage shed, (2) Completion of all ancillary site works. The proposed development consists of works within the curtilage of a protected structure Ref. no. MH033-107 (NIAH Ref. 14403303)
Permission · Meath County Council, 211533
6 Aug 2021Conditional
(1) Agricultural building to the centre of an existing farmyard complex incorporating cubicle accommodation, slatted areas, link and feed passages, straw and machinery storage areas, cattle handling area and meal storage area (2) Milking parlour building to eastern boundary of site incorporating dairy, parlour area, meal storage and slatted collection yard areas, (3) Walled silage pit, (4) Loose bedded / slatted shed to southern boundary of site, (5) Overground slurry storage tank and associated slatted underground reception tank together with permission to (a) construct a silage pit wall to existing silage pit base (b) Complete ancillary site works and associated site structures
Retention · Meath County Council, 211534
5 Mar 2021Conditional
development will consist of revisions to an existing Grant of Permission, Ref. No. AA/201031 and will include the following: (1) Change of house type to entire two-storied, (2) Minor revisions to the site layout which will also include a revised position of the proposed entrance onto the public road (4) All ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21434
31 Jul 2020Conditional
constructing a part two storied, part single storied dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, installing a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area and to make a new entrance onto the road along with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA201031
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 Hawkinstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Hawkinstown.
Architectural heritage
- Farmyard complex, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Farmyard complex, comprising of single- and two-storey outbuildings, built c.1820. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs. Roughcast rendered and stone walls. Timber sash and cast-iron windows. Timber battened doors. Pairs of cast-iron gates to sites.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Hawkinstown, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Hawkinstown.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Hawkinstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Hawkinstown · Baile Háicín
- Area
- 1,065,515 m² (106.55 ha, 263.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Piercetown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duleek Upper
- Electoral division
- Rathfeigh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,106 people lived in 342 households in the Rathfeigh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balgeeth, Cushinstown, Moorepark, Riverstown, Riverstown, Scatternagh
- Placenames
- Hawkinstown 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.