Otterstown
Townland in the civil parish of Athboy, barony of Lune, Co. Meath; in Irish Baile an Oitirigh
- Area
- 73.4 ha
- 181 acres
- Land parcels
- 75
- registered freehold, median 1,875 m²
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Otterstown, from 13 m² to 128,602 m² (12.86 ha, 31.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 · 86 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
9 Oct 2024Conditional
the development consists of the retention of 1) alterations to the ground floor layout, single storey conservatory to rear of dwelling, conversion of attic space to include office, snug, shower room, hot press & store, 1no. roof window to front, 4no. roof windows to rear, new chimney stack to rear of dwelling, solar panels to front roof area, and all associated elevational changes to include alterations made 2) detached single storey domestic garage to include boiler house, workshop & w/c 3) external pump house & attached outdoor covered seating area 4) summer room structure and all associated site works
Retention · Meath County Council, 2460834
27 Jun 2024Conditional
the renovation of existing single storey detached cottage to include internal and external alterations, provision of new single storey extension to rear and new granny flat extension to side/ rear, demolition of existing outbuildings and the provision of a new replacement proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area including all associated site works at. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460474
23 Dec 2020Conditional
development will consist of the construction of dwelling, new entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA202058
23 Dec 2020Conditional
development will consist of the construction of dwelling, dual access shared entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA202059
23 Dec 2020Conditional
development will consist of the construction of dwelling, dual access shared entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA202090
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 Otterstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Otterstown.
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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2434 (ZIP).
- 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
- Otterstown, Athboy7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Otterstown · Baile an Oitirigh
- Area
- 734,286 m² (73.43 ha, 181.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Athboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Lune
- Electoral division
- Athboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Athboy electoral division: 2,771 people in 1,007 households; 64% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castletown, Fordrath, Newtown or Ballyfallon, Stocks, Town Parks
- Placenames
- Otterstown 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.