Lacystown
Lacystown is a townland in the civil parish of Stamullin, barony of Duleek Upper, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 57 ha
- 141 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 12,546 m² (1.25 ha, 3.1 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lacystown, from 1,085 m² to 143,479 m² (14.35 ha, 35.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 36 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
17 Nov 2025Refused
construction of a personal training studio , partly built onto existing garage floor granted permission ref no. AA/190741 and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2561244
13 May 2025Conditional
dwelling house , waste water treatment system and percolation area , access to site via existing entrance gate and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560479
4 Jun 2024Conditional
the development will consist of the extension to the existing authorised land reclamation works as granted under planning permission AA/180750 and as extended in duration by 23/581 using the same site entrance, site access roadway (0.651 Hectares), wheelwash, portable office and chemical toilet. The proposed works will involve the re-contouring of agricultural land using imported byproduct soil and stones within an area of a farm holding of 5.557 for the consequential benefit to agriculture and all associated site works. A 5 year planning permission is requested and during this period 99,471 tonnes of byproduct soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation subject to a maximum of 25,000 tonnes per annum
Permission · Meath County Council, 24246
2 Jun 2023Unconditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION AA/180750 - the re-contouring of agricultural land and associated site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within an area of a farm holding of 5.923 hectares (plus the additional access roadway of 0.203 hectares) for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 5 year planning permission is requested, and during this period 98,043 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation
Extension of duration · Meath County Council, 23581
31 Jul 2020Conditional
the construction of a two storey residence, proprietary waste water treatment system, domestic garage, new entrance and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA201035
11 Jun 2019Conditional
dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and detached domestic garage and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, AA190741
6 Jul 2018Conditional
the re-contouring of agricultural land and associated site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within an area of a farm holding of 5.923 hectares (plus the additional access roadway of 0.203 hectares) for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 5 year planning permission is requested, and during this period 98,043 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation
Permission · Meath County Council, AA180750
26 May 2017Conditional
construction of a two storey dwelling, effuent treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA170597
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 Lacystown.
Recorded monuments
- ME033-053 Ring-ditch
Description
The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Bing aerial images (2013). It was first identified by Tom Condit Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lacystown.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Lacystown, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lacystown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lacystown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Lacystown
- Area
- 570,311 m² (57.03 ha, 140.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stamullin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duleek Upper
- Electoral division
- Stamullin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 5,471 people lived in 1,655 households in the Stamullin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 61% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Greenanstown, Legganhall, Mullaghteelin, Rudder, Whiteleas
- Placenames
- Lacystown 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.