Mahonstown

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mahonstown, from 635 m² to 226,601 m² (22.66 ha, 55.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 35 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 13 Feb 2018Conditional

  to construct a single storey granny flat extension to side of dwelling house

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA180132

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mahonstown.

Architectural heritage

• Mahonstown Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over river, built c.1780. Rubble limestone walls with roughly dressed voussoirs and ashlar coping. Pedestrian refuge in the form of a stone seat built into parapet wall.

• Weir, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Stone weir, built c.1820.

• Mahonstown House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880. Rendered walls with render quoins. Hipped slate roof with brick eaves course, decorative red brick chimneystacks and terracotta ridge cresting. Square and segmental-arched openings with render surrounds and stone sills. Round-arched opening with elaborate fluted limestone doorcase, timber panelled door, sidelights and cast-iron bootscrapers. Canted bay windows to north and south elevations.

• Mahonstown House, outbuilding, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings, built c.1880. Rendered walls and hipped slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks. Round-arched openings with timber shutters and doors. Barrel roofed corrugated-iron barn and silo to east.

• Mahonstown House, gates/railings/walls, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wrought-iron pedestrian gate with rendered gate piers and rubble limestone wall, erected c.1880. Rendered plinth wall and gate piers with cast-iron railings and gates. Rendered wall and gate piers with wrought-iron gate gives access to farm.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Mahonstown.

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.

No address of the register names Mahonstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Mahonstown

Area

1,088,778 m² (108.88 ha, 269.04 acres)

Civil parish

Dulane, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Maperath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Maperath electoral division: 495 people in 173 households; 91% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baltrasna, Carlanstown, Knockglass, Newtown, Normanstown or Norbrinstown, Turkstown

Placenames

Mahonstown 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.