# Hurcle, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Tullyallen, barony of Slane Upper, Co. Meath; in Irish Dú.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,973,476 m² (197.35 ha, 487.66 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,522 m² (1.35 ha, 3.34 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 14 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Tullyallen, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/tullyallen.md
- Barony: Slane Upper
- Electoral division: Mellifont, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 573 people lived in 197 households in the Mellifont electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/38474
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160878
- Centre: latitude 53.751803, longitude -6.467228 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hurcle, from 223 m² to 718,033 m² (71.8 ha, 177.43 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5718876: 718,033 m² (71.8 ha, 177.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5718876.md
- Parcel 184131: 320,179 m² (32.02 ha, 79.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/184131.md
- Parcel 203105: 283,539 m² (28.35 ha, 70.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/203105.md
- Parcel 202835: 143,133 m² (14.31 ha, 35.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/202835.md
- Parcel 149288: 95,486 m² (9.55 ha, 23.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/149288.md
- Parcel 182082: 89,768 m² (8.98 ha, 22.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/182082.md
- Parcel 203107: 58,313 m² (5.83 ha, 14.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/203107.md
- Parcel 5718822: 51,174 m² (5.12 ha, 12.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5718822.md
- Parcel 148085: 49,329 m² (4.93 ha, 12.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/148085.md
- Parcel 149287: 46,249 m² (4.62 ha, 11.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/149287.md
- Parcel 148701: 42,683 m² (4.27 ha, 10.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/148701.md
- Parcel 2949179: 35,343 m² (3.53 ha, 8.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2949179.md
- Parcel 149020: 30,935 m² (3.09 ha, 7.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/149020.md
- Parcel 1133324: 16,035 m² (1.6 ha, 3.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1133324.md
- Parcel 202834: 11,009 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/202834.md
- Parcel 203106: 4,709 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/203106.md
- Parcel 5433249: 4,540 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5433249.md
- Parcel 5122059: 4,494 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5122059.md
- Parcel 212367: 4,096 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/212367.md
- Parcel 167599: 3,907 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/167599.md
- Parcel 2736583: 3,857 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2736583.md
- Parcel 160400: 3,052 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/160400.md
- Parcel 136752: 2,548 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/136752.md
- Parcel 200348: 1,232 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/200348.md
- Parcel 5718597: 1,148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5718597.md
- Parcel 146110: 718 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/146110.md
- Parcel 135705: 253 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/135705.md
- Parcel 5433232: 223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5433232.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath; 45 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

14 applications, newest first.

- 22 Sept 2025, Meath County Council 2561003: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the development shall consist of: 1) Construction of 1no. single storey detached dwelling house; 2) Formation of new site entrance to service proposed dwelling house; 3) Installation of new wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561003/0
- 14 Aug 2025, Meath County Council 2560857: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a single storey dwellinghouse, a single storey domestic garage, a waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter and for associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560857/0
- 1 Apr 2024, Meath County Council 2460216: Refused. Retention. Retention of a new entrance gate to access existing hay storage shed with boundary post and wire fencing along with any associated siteworks. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460216/0
- 12 Jul 2023, Meath County Council 2360158: Conditional. Permission. to construct single storey extensions to front and sides of existing two storey detached dwelling, alterations to elevations and internal layout of existing dwelling, single storey garage extension, demolition of existing single storey extension and garage block, renovate existing outbuilding, boundaries, landscaping, new waste water treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360158/0
- 17 Apr 2023, Meath County Council 23412: Refused. Permission, 1 home. construction of a new dwelling house, a proprietary waste water treatment system with percolation area along with all other associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/23412/0
- 10 Mar 2023, Meath County Council 23262: Refused. Permission. planning permission to construct single storey extensions to front and sides of existing two storey detached dwelling, alterations to elevations and internal layout of existing dwelling, single storey garage extension, demolition of existing single storey extension and garage block, renovate existing outbuilding, boundaries, landscaping, new waste water treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/23262/0
- 30 Nov 2022, Meath County Council 221549: Conditional. Permission. planning permission for an attic conversion to create 2 no. additional bedrooms, 3 no. roof windows to front roof and 1 roof window to side of existing house Proposal top upgrade waste water treatment system with to facilitate increased capacity all with ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/221549/0
- 15 Jul 2022, Meath County Council 22938: N/a. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a single storey dwellinghouse, a single storey domestic garage, a waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter and for associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/22938/0
- 21 Apr 2022, Meath County Council 22527: Refused. Permission. an attic conversion to create 2 no. additional bedrooms, 3 no. roof windows to front roof and 1 roof window to side roof of existing house with ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/22527/0
- 6 Apr 2022, Meath County Council 22430: N/a. Permission. planning permission for an attic conversion to create 2 no. additional, 3no. roof windows to front roof and 1 roof window to side roof of existing house with ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/22430/0
- 8 Jul 2021, Meath County Council 211318: N/a. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a single storey dwelling house, a single storey domestic garage, a waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter and for associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/211318/0
- 4 Jan 2021, Meath County Council 212: Refused. Permission, 1 home. planning permission for a single storey dwelling, effluent treatment system/percolation area along with the ancillary site development works at Hurcle, Collon, Co. Meath. I am also applying for permission to utilize and upgrade the existing agricultural vehicular entrance from the public road to provide access to the proposed dwelling. Significant Further information /Revised plans submitted on this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/212/0
- 12 Mar 2019, Meath County Council LB190277: Conditional. Retention. the retention of the first floor attic accommodation to the existing dwelling house and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB190277/0
- 28 Jan 2019, Meath County Council LB190080: N/a. Retention. the retention of the first floor attic accommodation to the existing dwelling house and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB190080/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- ME013-022: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME013-022----. Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a W-E spur. This is depicted as a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’ and as a larger hachured feature (diam. c. 50-55m) on the 1908 edition. It was described in 1968 (SMR file) as a circular area (diam. 55m N-S; 51m E-W) that slopes down to the N (H 1.4m) which is defined by a slight bank (Wth 6-9m; int. H 0.12-0.5m; ext. H 0.5m at SSW to 1.2m at NNW) and a shallow fosse (at SSW: Wth of top 8m; ext. D 0.5m). The perimeter is incorporated into a field bank and townland boundary with Starinagh SW-NW, and it might have had an entrance at ESE. It can be seen as a subcircular cropmark enclosure (dims c. 60m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by a single fosse on OSI images (1995, 2000) and on Google Earth (21/07/2021). See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021) 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 upload: 10 July 2007 Amended: 3 August 2022, 15 December 2022
- ME013-023: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME013-023----. Situated on a SE-facing slope. The faint and uncertain cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 42m N-S) defined by a single fosse is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: BGL 20) from the 1970s. It is also visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018 and on this image an entrance (Wth c. 8m) is visible at ENE. The fosse is connected with the drains of unmapped field banks that approach from the WSW and NNW, and at S a short drain connects it with a NE-SW field drain from a bank that is depicted on the 1836 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. The rath is visible again on Google Earth (21/07/2021). See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps 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 upload: 10 July 2007 Amended: 27 January 2020, 30/08/2021
- ME013-027: Settlement deserted - medieval, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME013-027----. Situated on a slight W-E spur with a NE-SW section of the meandering Mattock River in a ravine on the SE side and a W-E tributary of that river on the N. It is also c. 500m N of the Cistercian monastery of Mellifont (LH023-007002-) and was part of its demesne which was leased to Edward Moore after its suppression in 1540. Hurcle was known as Doo in the Middle Ages but the settlement may have been defunct at the Suppression when only a ‘close of pasture called the dooparke of 4 acres’ was in the demesne (White 1943, 213). Earthworks covering about 7 ha (c. 18 acres) consist of earthen banks (Wth c. 3-5m; H 0.2-0.5m) and sunken ditches (Wth c. 4m; D 0.7m) that form some rectangular fields (dims c. 80m x c 30m) extending NW and SE from a fairly open but irregularly-shaped area (dims c. 150m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) that may have been a street. About six house sites (dims 8m x 4m to 13.5m x 4.5m) can be identified at the edges of this open area. At the NE end of the putative street a rectangular building (dims 16m E-W; 8m N-S) in a circular enclosure may be a church. The settlement was surveyed by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland in 1968, probably after its discovery by Leo Swan through his aerial photographic work. See the attached plan by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland 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 upload: 10 July 2007 Amended: 3 August 2022, 29 September 2022
- ME013-067001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME013-067001-. Situated on a hillock in the valley of a meandering NE-SW section of the Mattock River which is c. 100m to the SE at the closest point. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 20m) defined by a single fosse (Wth c. 2m) with an entrance (Wth c. 4m) at ESE is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. Enclosure (ME013-066002-) is c. 2m to the SE. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 January 2020
- ME013-067002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME013-067002-. Situated on a hillock in the valley of a meandering NE-SW section of the Mattock River which is c. 85m to the SE at the closest point. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims c. 12m E-W; c. 9m N-S) defined by a single fosse feature with a possible entrance (Wth c. 2m) at SE is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. Rath (ME013-067001-) is c. 2m to the NW. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced aerial view (R) from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 January 2020

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Hurcle, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Hurcle.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/meath/hurcle.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/hurcle.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/hurcle.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Hurcle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Begrath (Co. Louth): https://everytownland.com/louth/begrath.md
- Glassallen: https://everytownland.com/meath/glassallen.md
- Mellifont (Co. Louth): https://everytownland.com/louth/mellifont.md
- Mellifont: https://everytownland.com/meath/mellifont.md
- Starinagh: https://everytownland.com/meath/starinagh.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/meath/hurcle
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/hurcle