Mentrim

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mentrim, from 44 m² to 180,132 m² (18.01 ha, 44.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 50 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 21 Jan 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a single storey extension to front, rear and side of dwelling, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560068

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mentrim Lough 001587

Recorded monuments

• ME006-038 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated towards the top of the SE-facing slope of a small hillock. A beehive chamber, discovered in ploughing during April 1957, was reported to the National Museum of Ireland and recorded by Brendáin Ó Ríordáin (NMI file). It consists of a circular beehive chamber (diam. 2.6m N-S; 2.4m E-W; H c. 1.6m) with a lintelled passage (Wth 0.65m; H 0.7m) leading off to the NW (L 2.9m plus). The souterrain was in a precarious state and was closed, but there was no evidence of any accompanying surface features.The following 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 26 October 2018

• ME007-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a small drumlin with the SSE-NNW Corkey River and the county boundary with Louth c. 100m to the E. Animal bones were discovered in ploughing this field, and there was local knowledge of an extended inhumation discovered there in the 1930s. During that decade when it was under a cereal crop a ring of higher growth (diam. c. 30m) encircling the summit was known locally. The field is called ‘Crocksmothy’ according to the Meath Field Names Project, for which see this web-page accessed on 26/09/2018: http://www.meathfieldnames.com/ This is derived from ‘Cnoc a Mhóta’ – Hill of the mound. No animal bones were recovered in field walking in 1993 when it was ploughed, but a circular cropmark defined by a fosse feature, with an outer fosse W-N is visible on OSI aerial images (1995, 2000). It is also visible on Google Earth (29/06/2018). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 October 2018

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay three-storey mill, built c.1800, currently undergoing renovation. Pitched slate roof. Rubble stone walls with cast-iron tie-plates and red brick dressings to openings. Remains of millrace to site, with replacement mill wheel.

• Outbuilding, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of industrial outbuildings, built c.1780, now disused. Rubble stone walls with pitched corrugated-iron roofs. Timber battened doors. Four-bay single-storey house to site, c.1940, with corrugated fibre cement roof and cast-iron casement windows.

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

At the centre of the townland of Mentrim, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2783 (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.

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

Name

Mentrim

Area

1,136,167 m² (113.62 ha, 280.75 acres)

Civil parish

Inishmot, and its townlands

Barony

Slane Lower

Electoral division

Drumcondra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,376 people lived in 491 households in the Drumcondra electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bigstown, Greenhills, Mandistown, Piercetown, Saintjohnsfort, Shanlis (Co. Louth)

Placenames

Mentrim 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.