# Letachmentgallon, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moybolgue, barony of Kells Lower, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 336,707 m² (33.67 ha, 83.2 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 81,543 m² (8.15 ha, 20.15 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Moybolgue, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/moybolgue.md - Barony: Kells Lower - Electoral division: Moybolgue, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 276 people lived in 88 households in the Moybolgue electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% 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/38238 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 161040 - Centre: latitude 53.87122, longitude -6.889693 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letachmentgallon, from 5,380 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres) to 251,047 m² (25.1 ha, 62.04 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 137011: 251,047 m² (25.1 ha, 62.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/137011.md - Parcel 4521613: 81,543 m² (8.15 ha, 20.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4521613.md - Parcel 207774: 5,380 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/207774.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; 19 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) No planning application touches the townland of Letachmentgallon in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Letachmentgallon. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - ME002-032: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME002-032----. Located on the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) only on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Fort’. It is visible as a raised and grass-covered D-shaped area (dims 30m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by a scarp (at E: Wth 3m; H 0.4m; at N: Wth 2m; H 0.2m) at W: Wth 1.8m). The entrance ramp (Wth of base 3m) is at WSW. An E-W field bank and hedge overlies the monument at S and the bank survives SE-SW to the S of this feature. 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: 31 August 2018 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 Letachmentgallon. ## 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 Letachmentgallon, 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 low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Letachmentgallon. - 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/letachmentgallon.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/letachmentgallon.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/letachmentgallon.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Letachmentgallon 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) - Corgreagh or Killagriff: https://everytownland.com/meath/corgreagh-or-killagriff.md - Doon: https://everytownland.com/meath/doon.md - Kilboyne: https://everytownland.com/meath/kilboyne.md - Moyhill: https://everytownland.com/meath/moyhill.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. --- 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/letachmentgallon - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/letachmentgallon