Lustown
Lustown is a townland in the civil parish of Dunboyne, barony of Dunboyne, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 44.4 ha
- 110 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 2,083 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lustown, from 186 m² to 339,194 m² (33.92 ha, 83.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 · 32 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
22 Jun 2026Conditional
planning permission for raised ridge height to accommodate habitable attic conversion with dormer to rear and 2 no dormers to front, roof window to front all to create 2 new bedrooms, Retention permission for removal of chimney with all associated ancillaries
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660774
4 May 2026N/a
the refurbishment of the existing single-storey detached dwelling, including internal alterations and revised fenestration, removal of the existing roof, and construction of a new first-floor pitched roof to create a 1½ storey Dormer dwelling with front and rear dormer windows. The development also includes the construction of new single-storey extensions with pitched-roofs to the side and rear, with projecting bay elements to the front elevation, a projecting pitched and flat roof overhang to the rear (Southwest) of the Living Area for a BBQ/outdoor seating area and the construction of an attached garage with a pitched roof to the western side of the existing dwelling. Ancillary works include upgrading of the existing vehicular entrance and front boundary treatment from the R154, decommissioning of the existing septic tank and the provision of new waste water treatment plant & associated percolation area together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660510
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 Lustown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lustown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lustown.
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 Lustown, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2932 (ZIP).
- 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 Lustown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Lustown
- Area
- 443,605 m² (44.36 ha, 109.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunboyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunboyne
- Electoral division
- Dunboyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 10,698 people lived in 3,434 households in the Dunboyne electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Beggstown, Piercetown, Quarryland, Vesingstown
- Placenames
- Lustown 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.