Oldtown
Townland in the civil parish of Martry, barony of Navan Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 69.3 ha
- 171 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 2,403 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldtown, from 23 m² to 107,744 m² (10.77 ha, 26.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 · 67 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
6 Jul 2026N/a
the development will consist of the construction of a new detached residential dwelling with domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance from road to enter the site including any necessary pruning of existing hedgerows, landscaping and all ancillary site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660836
24 May 2024Conditional
an agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 24225
17 Apr 2023Conditional
the retention of existing forecourt canopy including signage and additional signage display located
Retention · Meath County Council, 23414
9 Mar 2023Conditional
retention of existing agriculture shed 1 and permission to construct an extension to same, permission to construct agricultural sheds 2 and 4 and permission to construct an extension to existing agricultural shed 3 and all associated site deveopment works
Permission · Meath County Council, 23250
8 Aug 2022Conditional
the development will consist of constructing a part single storied, part two storied type dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, installing a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area and to make a new entrance onto the road along with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221039
1 Apr 2020Conditional
construction of a Storey & a half style dwelling with detached domestic garage, install a proprietary sewage treatment system and form new entrance from public road
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA200445
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 Oldtown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Oldtown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oldtown.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Oldtown.
- 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 Oldtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Oldtown
- Area
- 692,885 m² (69.29 ha, 171.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Martry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Navan Lower
- Electoral division
- Martry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Martry electoral division: 792 people in 246 households; 92% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Allenstown Demesne, Faughanhill, Phoenixtown
- Placenames
- Oldtown 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.