# Mountainstown, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilshine, barony of Morgallion, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,013,568 m² (201.36 ha, 497.56 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,662 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilshine, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/kilshine.md - Barony: Morgallion - Electoral division: Castletown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,034 people lived in 339 households in the Castletown electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/38639 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 161159 - Centre: latitude 53.753948, longitude -6.753544 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountainstown, from 67 m² to 492,644 m² (49.26 ha, 121.73 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5128790: 492,644 m² (49.26 ha, 121.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5128790.md - Parcel 216026: 179,888 m² (17.99 ha, 44.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/216026.md - Parcel 164111: 12,631 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/164111.md - Parcel 154559: 3,536 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/154559.md - Parcel 153443: 3,253 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/153443.md - Parcel 198515: 2,821 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/198515.md - Parcel 162964: 2,352 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/162964.md - Parcel 155875: 2,241 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/155875.md - Parcel 190078: 2,147 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/190078.md - Parcel 162347: 2,107 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/162347.md - Parcel 193941: 2,062 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/193941.md - Parcel 195964: 2,036 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/195964.md - Parcel 194768: 1,991 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/194768.md - Parcel 157886: 1,976 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/157886.md - Parcel 197125: 1,846 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/197125.md - Parcel 163023: 1,826 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/163023.md - Parcel 159484: 1,756 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/159484.md - Parcel 156550: 1,692 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/156550.md - Parcel 159725: 1,633 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/159725.md - Parcel 196483: 1,631 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/196483.md - Parcel 196179: 1,548 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/196179.md - Parcel 191419: 1,501 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/191419.md - Parcel 159069: 1,411 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/159069.md - Parcel 196908: 1,376 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/196908.md - Parcel 190952: 1,349 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/190952.md - Parcel 198294: 1,212 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/198294.md - Parcel 173672: 1,063 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/173672.md - Parcel 5128807: 828 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5128807.md - Parcel 182018: 776 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/182018.md - Parcel 5128809: 724 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5128809.md - Parcel 6205627: 700 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6205627.md - Parcel 162267: 530 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/162267.md - Parcel 197534: 512 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/197534.md - Parcel 192273: 220 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/192273.md - Parcel 5128808: 135 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5128808.md - Parcel 195285: 67 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/195285.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath; 66 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 5 Jul 2023, Meath County Council 2360141: Conditional. Retention. retention of alterations to previously approved two storey house (ref 97936) including revised site boundary, revised site layout and retention of associated out buildings including farm worker’s apartment. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360141/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mountainstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - ME012-049: Passage tomb art, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME012-049----. A stone (dims 0.55m x 0.55m; T 0.15m) that had been in a drain was used in a stile. One surface has incised chevron touching a straight line at two points with two short lines parallel with lines of the chevron. (Ó Broin 2000; Eogan 2011, 14) See attached line drawing taken from O'Broin 2000, Fig. 2 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 March, 2017 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mountainstown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Mountainstown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountainstown. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/meath/mountainstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/mountainstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/mountainstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mountainstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clongill: https://everytownland.com/meath/clongill.md - Dowdstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/dowdstown-160614.md - Drakerath: https://everytownland.com/meath/drakerath.md - Drakestown: https://everytownland.com/meath/drakestown.md - Knightstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/knightstown.md - Oristown: https://everytownland.com/meath/oristown-161265.md - Rossmeen: https://everytownland.com/meath/rossmeen.md - St. John's Rath: https://everytownland.com/meath/st-johns-rath.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/meath/mountainstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/mountainstown