Howthstown

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Howthstown, from 2,081 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 204,684 m² (20.47 ha, 50.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 33 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 1 Jul 2026Conditional

  planning permission for a change of house design and house and garage position to that granted under Planning file ref. No. 21/2174 and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660816

• 6 May 2026N/a

  the developmentwill consist of 1) proposed extension to existing Dry Agricultural Storage Shed (granted Ref: No. LB/190102), 2) extension incorporating part Dry Agricultural Store & part Office/Canteen to existing building (granted Ref. No. SA70406 for part & Ref. No. LB/190102 for remainder) and all associated works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 26125

• 5 Nov 2025N/a

  Planning permission for a change of house design and position to that granted under Planning file ref. No. 21/2174 and all associated site development works at Polecastle, Lobinstown, Navan, County Meath.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561199

• 2 Dec 2022Conditional

  the retention of a shed and dog kennel to rear of dwelling along with all ancillary site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 221567

• 16 Nov 2022N/a

  the retention of a shed and dog kennel to rear of dwelling along with all ancillary site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 221494

• 11 Dec 2020Conditional

  the demolition of an existing two storey house and the construction of a replacement two storey house including a waste water treatment unit and percolation area and new entrance onto the public road. Significant Further information/Revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB201907

• 4 Feb 2019Conditional

  retention of extension to side of existing agricultural storage shed incorporating part Dry Agricultural Store & Office area as constructed, together with permission for proposed new detached Dry Agricultural Storage Shed and all associated works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, LB190102

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 Howthstown.

Recorded monuments

• ME006-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a relatively low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a narrow fosse feature, with portion of an inner fosse S-W is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVS, 3). It does not appear on other aerial photographic series. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 26 October 2018

• ME006-070 Windmill
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a small hillock. A tower windmill annotated as a ‘Windmill (in ruins)’ in italic lettering is depicted only on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is not extant and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.    Compiled by: Michael Moore

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Howthstown, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Howthstown.

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.

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

Name

Howthstown

Area

1,214,293 m² (121.43 ha, 300.06 acres)

Civil parish

Siddan, and its townlands

Barony

Slane Lower

Electoral division

Killary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,291 people lived in 467 households in the Killary electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Batestown, Braysland, Footstown Great, Footstown Little, Polecastle, Rathreynolds, Woodtown Lower, Woodtown Upper

Placenames

Howthstown 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.