Higginstown

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Higginstown, from 91 m² to 513,750 m² (51.38 ha, 126.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 114 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 7 Jun 2026N/a

  the development will consist of a new proposed two-storey dwelling and detached garage, opening of a new vehicular entrance to the site, new private water well and secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660694

• 14 Apr 2022Conditional

  to retain (a) existing storage shed (46m2) and (b) garden room (20m2) to the rear of the existing dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22493

• 19 May 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of an application to retain (retention planning permission) development as constructed on the site, comprising a sunroom extension constructed at the south side of the dwellinghouse, a domestic garage, turf shed and small storage shed constructed to the east of the dwelling and an enclosed porch at the front elevation of the dwelling, facing west together with all other ancillary work relevant to the overall development. Previous planning permission reference is 89/688

  Retention · Meath County Council, KA170558

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 Higginstown.

Recorded monuments

• ME029-022 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated in a level landscape and c. 16m S of a canalised NW-SE stream. This is an oval stony mound (dims 10m E-W; 6.6m N-S; H 0.8m) with a clay mantle in places and evidence of charcoal associated with the mantle. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 28 February 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_2383 (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.

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

Name

Higginstown · Baile Huigín

Area

1,899,265 m² (189.93 ha, 469.32 acres)

Civil parish

Athboy, and its townlands

Barony

Lune

Electoral division

Grennanstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grennanstown electoral division: 1,260 people in 420 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboy, Balrath, Castletown, Causestown, Chapel Land, Fraine

Placenames

Higginstown 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.