Mooneystown
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcondra, barony of Slane Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 186.1 ha
- 460 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 49,614 m² (4.96 ha, 12.26 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mooneystown, from 188 m² to 203,515 m² (20.35 ha, 50.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 56 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
19 Feb 2025Conditional
proposed single storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560162
9 Jul 2024Refused
Construction of a Dormer Dwelling, Effluent Treatment System together with site access & all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460510
6 Dec 2023Refused
EXTENSION OF DURATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO: KA/181053 - construction of a new single storey dwelling house, garage, new on-site treatment system and all associated site works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Meath County Council, 231106
26 Jul 2023Refused
proposed dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360183
22 Jun 2021Conditional
the change of use of the existing detached single storey garage to a residential house for the use of persons with an intellectual or physical disability or mental illness and the provision of a new waste water treatment system and associated works
Permission · Meath County Council, 211204
20 May 2021N/a
the change of use of the existing detached single storey garage to a residential house for the use of persons with an intellectual or physical disability or mental illness and the provision of a new waste water treatment system and associated works
Permission · Meath County Council, 21970
5 Feb 2021Conditional
the erection of a single storey dwelling house and detached domestic garage, private entrance, proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area to include for all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21199
28 Jul 2020Conditional
a change of use of an attached garage to habitable accommodation and minor elevational changes including all ancillary site works
Retention · Meath County Council, KA201007
10 Jun 2019Conditional
construction of portal frame building to serve as micro business (workshop) for small engine repairs together with access drive, entrance onto public road and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA190735
10 Oct 2018Refused
construction of Portal Frame Building to serve as small commercial premises (workshop) for small engine repairs together with access drive, entrance onto public road and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA181188
12 Sept 2018Conditional
construction of a new single storey dwelling house, garage, new on-site treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA181053
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 Mooneystown.
Recorded monuments
- ME006-015 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a rise in a fairly low-lying landscape. This is a raised and grass-covered oval platform (dims 44m E-W; 34m N-S) that is slightly domed (H 0.5-0.7m) with traces of a bank E-SW, and a fosse (at N: Wth of top 2.9m; Wth of base 2.4m; int. D c. 1.5m; ext. D 0.45m: at E: Wth of top 9m; Wth of base 6m; int. D 0.9m; ext. D 0.5m) NW-E-S. There are intermittent traces of an outer bank (at N: Wth of base 2.8m; ext. H 0.3m). The original entrance is not identified and there are some trees on the perimeter. 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: 22 October 2018 Amended: 14 December 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mooneystown.
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
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2781 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mooneystown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Mooneystown
- Area
- 1,860,637 m² (186.06 ha, 459.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcondra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slane Lower
- Electoral division
- Drumcondra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumcondra electoral division: 1,376 people in 491 households; 83% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corstown, Greenan, Kearntown, Mandistown, Townparks (Co. Louth)
- Placenames
- Mooneystown 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.