# Murrens, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Moylagh, barony of Fore, Co. Meath; in Irish Na Muirne.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 831,512 m² (83.15 ha, 205.47 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 97,801 m² (9.78 ha, 24.17 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Moylagh, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/moylagh.md
- Barony: Fore
- Electoral division: Moylagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 423 people lived in 166 households in the Moylagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/38857
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 161206
- Centre: latitude 53.720066, longitude -7.205752 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murrens, from 720 m² to 293,972 m² (29.4 ha, 72.64 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 150933: 293,972 m² (29.4 ha, 72.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/150933.md
- Parcel 208579: 161,235 m² (16.12 ha, 39.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/208579.md
- Parcel 189435: 154,847 m² (15.48 ha, 38.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/189435.md
- Parcel 187695: 150,721 m² (15.07 ha, 37.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/187695.md
- Parcel 146113: 44,881 m² (4.49 ha, 11.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/146113.md
- Parcel 148851: 22,047 m² (2.2 ha, 5.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/148851.md
- Parcel 155367: 2,489 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/155367.md
- Parcel 164049: 720 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/164049.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; 27 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)

2 applications, newest first.

- 4 Jul 2025, Meath County Council 2560688: Conditional. Permission. 1. Extraction of sand and gravel (dry working) over a lateral extension extraction area of c. 4.2 hectares adjacent to the existing sand and gravel pit development permitted by planning permission KA/141129 (ABP PL17.245257) with access gained from the existing pit. 2. Restoration of the lands will form part of the overall adjacent sand and gravel pit restoration site, returning the lands to a combination of agricultural grazing and beneficial ecological habitat. 3. The development will be commensurate with the life of existing site permission (P. Ref. KA14/1129 & ABP PL.17.245257) which is due to expire in December 2036. 4. All associated site ancillary works within an overall application area of c. 5.8 hectares. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been prepared in respect of this planning application. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560688/0
- 31 Jan 2025, Meath County Council 2560101: Conditional. Retention. the development will consist of retention permission of existing double domestic garage & store. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560101/0

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## 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 Murrens.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Murrens.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Murrens.

## 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 Murrens, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Murrens.
- 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/murrens.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/murrens.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/murrens.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Murrens 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)

- Annagh: https://everytownland.com/meath/annagh-160025.md
- Ballany: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballany.md
- Baltrasna: https://everytownland.com/meath/baltrasna-160183.md
- Greenan: https://everytownland.com/meath/greenan-160822.md
- Moylagh: https://everytownland.com/meath/moylagh.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.

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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/murrens
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/murrens