Herbertstown
Townland in the civil parish of Dunboyne, barony of Dunboyne, Co. Meath
- Area
- 124.8 ha
- 308 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 56,157 m² (5.62 ha, 13.88 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Herbertstown, from 225 m² to 988,581 m² (98.86 ha, 244.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 · 21 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
25 Jun 2026N/a
permission to construct (i) Over ground slurry tower with hardcore area & laneway and underground slurry tank and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660792
17 Jun 2026N/a
Permission to construct (i) Over ground slurry tower with hardcore area & laneway and underground slurry tank and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660746
13 Sept 2024Conditional
the proposed development will consist of an application for a 10-year planning permission for the construction of, and a 40 year operation and subsequent decommissioning of, a development consisting of a 215 hectare solar farm (red line boundary). The solar farm comprises of two separate land parcels divided by local roads. The proposed solar farm will consist of a series of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, mounted on steel support structures and in some areas on concrete shoes to protect possible underground archaeological features, together with 28 electrical transformation enclosures, underground cabling, 2 no. temporary construction compounds, the use of existing farm access tracks and existing site entrances, inverters, CCTV poles and cameras, deer type security/boundary fencing with some areas of boundary development on concrete shoes to further protect possible underground archaeological features, landscaping and biodiversity measures and all associated ancillary development works, for the purpose of generating renewable energy electricity and transmitting it in the townlands of Ballymacoll Little, Boolies, Nuttstown, Ballintry, Belgree, Rowan and Kinoristown, Co. Meath. A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the Planning Authority with this application. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 2460742
4 May 2023Conditional
alterations to previously approved planning permission, Planning Referernce: RA200762. The alterations to include: revision of site boundaries, revisions to the approved refurbishment and part single part two storey extension to the existing house to include kitchen, dining, living area, gym, swimming pool, storage and bathrooms with bedroom accomodation overhead, revisions to the Gate Lodge building approved works including revisions to the extension to accomodate kitchen, dining, living area, store and bathroom and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23480
19 Jun 2020Conditional
complete redevelopment and refurbishment of Herbertstown Stud comprising the following works: Refurbishment and extensions of the existing house including part demolition to the rear and construction of new part single and part two storey extensions including kitchen, dining, living area, play room, boot room with bedroom accommodation over new gym with laundry over all to the rear, internal modifications, new garage/workshop building with storage over and walled garden area. Demolition of existing stable buildings, barns, sheds and staff residential accommodation and the construction of a new farm complex consisting of American barn/stable block including staff canteen, managers office, two staff apartments, machine shed/cattle shed incorporating straw and hay storage, lunging ring, horse walker and dung stead. Renovations, modifications and single storey extension to the side of existing gate lodge building, modifications to existing main vehicular entrance along with new gates and stone screen walls. The provision of all associated works, internal service roads and two Molloy Precast Awsaflow or similar, wastewater treatment systems and polishing filters, one to serve the main house and yard and the second to serve the gate lodge
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA200762
11 Jun 2020N/a
complete redevelopment and refurbishment of Herbertstown Stud comprising the following works: Refurbishment and extensions of the existing house including part demolition to the rear and construction of new part single and part two storey extensions including kitchen, dining, living area, play room, boot room with bedroom accommodation over new gym with laundry over all to the rear, internal modifications, new garage/workshop building with storage over and walled garden area. Demolition of existing stable buildings, barns, sheds and staff residential accommodation and the construction of a new farm complex consisting of American barn/stable block including staff canteen, managers office, two staff apartments, machine shed/cattle shed incorporating straw and hay storage, lunging ring, horse walker and dung stead. Renovations, modifications and single storey extension to the side of existing gate lodge building, modifications to existing main vehicular entrance along with new gates and stone screen walls. The provision of all associated works, internal service roads and two Molloy Precast Awsaflow or similar, wastewater treatment systems and polishing filters, one to serve the main house and yard and the second to serve the gate lodge
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA200724
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 Herbertstown.
Recorded monuments
- ME044-039 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated at the SE end of a low NW-SE ridge. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 50m) defined by a single fosse feature with an entrance gap at SE (Wth c. 5m) is visible on oblique aerial photographs (LS_AS_67BWN_00042_08; LS_AS_35BWN_00101_16) taken c. 1970 by Leo Swan. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 March, 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Herbertstown.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2997 (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 Herbertstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Herbertstown
- Area
- 1,247,683 m² (124.77 ha, 308.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunboyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunboyne
- Electoral division
- Dunboyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunboyne electoral division: 10,698 people in 3,434 households; 78% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacoll Little, Caulstown, Cradockstown, Folistown, Gunstown, Killester, Loughlinstown, Mullinam, Piercetown
- Placenames
- Herbertstown 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.