Paddingstown
Townland in the civil parish of Dunboyne, barony of Dunboyne, Co. Meath
- Area
- 13.6 ha
- 34 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 2,845 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- C2.1
- E2/E3 - General Enterprise and Employment/ Warehousing and Distribution
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Paddingstown, from 18 m² to 27,807 m² (2.78 ha, 6.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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
- C2.1E2/E3 - General Enterprise and Employment/ Warehousing and Distribution (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1C1 - Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 2 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
28 Aug 2026N/a
the development will consist of: (1) The construction of a new light industrial unit (c.600sq.m GFA; c.10m in height). (2) The provision of hardstanding areas for open-air storage, including vehicles and materials. (3) Upgrades to the existing site access and the construction of an internal roadway, including associated pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure. (4) The reconfiguration of car parking spaces to include electric vehicle (EV) charging spaces, accessible parking spaces, and bicycle parking spaces. (5) Hard and soft landscaping works, including Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) measures, the removal and replacement of sections of hedgerow, the installation of site lighting, and the erection of sections of paladin fence and post-and-rail fence along the site boundary. (6) All associated site development and services works on a site of c.5.2ha
Permission · Meath County Council, 2661083
23 Jul 2024Conditional
the development will consist of (i) an extension of 680 square metres to an existing grain store (ii) an aeration system incorporating two external ground mounted fans which will be acoustically enclosed (iii) extension to the existing concrete yard area (iv) all associated site development works, landscaping and boundary treatments. The existing grain store to be extended currently extends to 2,300 square metres and the proposed extension building will be similar in height and finishes to the existing grain store at this site. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 2460559
25 Sept 2023Conditional
the construction of a crane storage yard comprising an unsurfaced hard standing area (c. 10,620 m2/1.06Ha) for the storage of cranes, new vehicular access off the L1010 incorporating new tapered kerbline either side, access control gates/fence and provision of footpaths/cycleways, new surface water attenuation area/swale/infiltration trench and all associated site works necessary to facilitate the development. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 23925
16 Mar 2022Conditional
to demolish existing single storey dwelling house, to demolish existing road side shed and part of existing shed to the rear, removal of existing septic tank and percolation area on site and permission to construct a replacement single storey dwelling house, detached garage, upgrade existing entrance from the public road, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22333
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 Paddingstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Paddingstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Paddingstown.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2999 (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
No address of the register names Paddingstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Paddingstown
- Area
- 135,944 m² (13.59 ha, 33.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunboyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunboyne
- Electoral division
- Dunboyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunboyne electoral division: 10,698 people in 3,434 households; 78% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bracetown, Dunboyne, Gunnocks, Normansgrove, Pace
- Placenames
- Paddingstown 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.