Kennetstown
Townland in the civil parish of Moorechurch, barony of Duleek Upper, Co. Meath
- Area
- 104.1 ha
- 257 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 2,258 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kennetstown, from 52 m² to 334,973 m² (33.5 ha, 82.77 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 69 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
16 Apr 2021Conditional
a single storey family unit extension to rear of existing farmhouse with the demolition of existing shed, upgrade and relocation of waste water treatment system & all associated site works. Retention of sunroom to side of farmhouse. Significant Further information /Revised plans submitted on this application
Retention · Meath County Council, 21708
18 Apr 2019Conditional
permission to construct (i) milking parlour building with crush, drafting, collecting yard, Meal bin, Slatted underground effluent tanks and hardcore yard (ii) Cubicle building with feeding aprons (iii) Overground slurry tower and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, LB190465
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 Kennetstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kennetstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kennetstown.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kennetstown.
- 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 Kennetstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Kennetstown
- Area
- 1,041,451 m² (104.15 ha, 257.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moorechurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duleek Upper
- Electoral division
- Julianstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Julianstown electoral division: 11,501 people in 3,991 households; 74% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Collierstown, Hollymount, Legganhall, Lisdornan, Mullaghteelin, Raholland
- Placenames
- Kennetstown 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.