Newtownrathganley
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Deece Upper, Co. Meath
- Area
- 198 ha
- 489 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 6,768 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtownrathganley, from 93 m² to 691,390 m² (69.14 ha, 170.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 · 53 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
14 Nov 2025Conditional
development will consist of the construction of a two-storey dwelling, an attached domestic garage, a domestic wastewater disposal system, new site entrance and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561239
3 Sept 2025Conditional
A NEW TWO-STOREY HOUSE WITH SINGLE STOREY ANNEX TO SIDE, NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA, NEW ENTRANCE DRIVE WAY AND PARKING TO FRONT AS WELL AS RELOCATION OF EXISTING FENCE/HEDGE TO ACHIEVE UNOBSTRUCTED SIGHT LINES ALONG ROAD. SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION/REVISED PLANS SUBMITTED ON THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560935
15 Aug 2025N/a
A NEW TWO-STOREY HOUSE WITH SINGLE STOREY ANNEX TO SIDE, NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA, NEW ENTRANCE DRIVE WAY AND PARKING TO FRONT AS WELL AS RELOCATION OF EXISTING FENCE/HEDGE TO ACHIEVE UNOBSTRUCTED SIGHT LINE ALONG ROAD.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560861
27 May 2022Conditional
the relocation of a workshop building to the south of the proposed extension of the compost pad, with an increase in permitted floor area from 89 sqm to 118 sqm. This application relates to development for the purposes of an activity requiring a licence under the Industrial Emissions Directive
Permission · Meath County Council, 22697
4 Jan 2022N/a
EXTENSION OF DURARTION OF PLANNING PERMISSION DA101175 & RA160185 (EOD) - construct 2 No. new pig finishing houses and to con struct extensions to 1 No. existing weaner house, 1 no. existing farrowing house, and 1 No. existing dry sow house to comply with incoming Animal Wefare Regulations, together with all ancillary structures (to include feed storage bins, soiled water tanks, rain water collection tank, etc.) and all associated site works, (to include an upgrading of the existing site entrance, new proprietary mechanical wastewater treatment system and percolation area. etc.) on the site of existing pig farm
Extension of duration · Meath County Council, 222
24 Nov 2021Conditional
the application site comprises an area of c. 3.8 hectares. Permission is sought for the construction of a workshop/maintenance building, extension to the outdoor concrete pad to allow for an additional composting area, construction of an extension to the composting building to include one additional in-vessel composting tunnel, and the construction of a roof over the existing biofilter. This will facilitate the increase in intake of waste materials at the facility from 50,000 tonnes to 68,500 tonnes per annum. This application relates to development for the purposes of an activity requiring a licence under the Industrial Emissions Directive. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission · Meath County Council, 212217
21 Sept 2021Conditional
construction of A) 2 no. new pig houses B) extension to 3 no. existing pig houses and C) 4 no. ancillary overground /underground storage tanks together with all ancillary structures and associated site works ( to include an upgrading of the existing site entrance, the provision of an on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area , and an on-site storm water attenuation swale), arising from the above development. The proposed works are to be completed in preference to, or in lieu of, any outstanding developments previously approved under planning ref DA101175, but not constructed to provide for and ensure higher environmental standards in line with BAT requirements, and improved animal welfare standards). The application relates to a development which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence underpart IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994-2013. An Environmental Impact Statement Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S) is submitted with this application. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 211844
9 Oct 2020Conditional
the retention of an office building (c.173 sqm) and the construction of new office building extension (c.86 sqm) and associated waste water treatment system and all ancillary site development works above and below ground. This application relates to development for the purposes of an activity requiring a licence under the Industrial Emissions Directive
Permission · Meath County Council, RA201461
9 Sept 2020Conditional
the construction of a change of house type to that granted under planning reference RA191774.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA201245
16 Feb 2017Conditional
the development will consist of a Lean-To type agricultural building for the storage of timber, machinery and other goods and general agricultural produce. The proposed development includes all ancillary site development, landscaping and boundary treatment works above and below ground
Permission · Meath County Council, RA170150
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 Newtownrathganley.
Recorded monuments
- ME049-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a NW-facing slope. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) described as a ‘Fort’ on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as an oval feature on the 1912 edition. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 40m NNW-SSE; 25m ENE-WSW) defined by a scarp (at NW: Wth 1.6m; H 0.6m; at SE: Wth 3.2m; H 0.6m) with slight intimations of a bank (at NW: Wth of base 4m; int. H 0.5m) but with no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. 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: 27 August 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newtownrathganley.
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 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Newtownrathganley.
- 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 Newtownrathganley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Newtownrathganley
- Area
- 1,979,632 m² (197.96 ha, 489.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Deece Upper
- Electoral division
- Kilmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmore electoral division: 1,907 people in 588 households; 92% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonlyon, Garadice, Phepotstown, Piercetown, Rathkilmore
- Placenames
- Newtownrathganley 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.