Mountainpole or Rochfortsland
Townland in the civil parish of Kells, barony of Kells Upper, Co. Meath
- Area
- 34 ha
- 84 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 4,842 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountainpole or Rochfortsland, from 2,043 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 109,774 m² (10.98 ha, 27.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 · 23 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
8 Apr 2022Conditional
a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and install a sewage treatment system with percolation areas together with all associated site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22461
13 Sept 2021Conditional
a two-storey style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211803
16 Jul 2021Conditional
the construction of a new detached residential dwelling with detached domestic garage, roof mounted solar heating panels, proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance from road to enter the site including any necessary pruning of existing hedgerows, landscaping and ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Outline permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211368
20 Dec 2019Conditional
the development consists of 1) Retention of existing car port to dwelling granted under planning reference number KA/801605, 2) Retention permission and permission for the completion of partially constructed detached domestic garage, 3) and all associated site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA191768
18 Jan 2019Conditional
permission for revised design for a one and a half storied dwelling house, revised design for a detached domestic garage, with minor revisions to the site layout along with all ancillary site works, all from that previously granted under Planning Ref. KA/160498
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA190038
28 Nov 2018Conditional
a single storied dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area with all ancillary site development works, and to widen and enlarge the existing entrance to the adjacent dwelling to form a combined double entrance which will serve both the new and the existing dwelling
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA181418
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountainpole or Rochfortsland.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mountainpole or Rochfortsland.
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 moderately low, 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 Mountainpole or Rochfortsland.
- 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 Mountainpole or Rochfortsland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Mountainpole or Rochfortsland
- Area
- 340,354 m² (34.04 ha, 84.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kells, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Electoral division
- Ceanannas Mór Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ceanannas M�r Rural electoral division: 4,980 people in 1,700 households; 75% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Commons of Lloyd, Dulane, Mountainpole, Townparks, Whitecommons, Wilmount
- Placenames
- Mountainpole or Rochfortsland 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.