Parkstown

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkstown, from 85 m² to 567,016 m² (56.7 ha, 140.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 49 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 40 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 7 Feb 2023Conditional

  retention of existing single storey porch to front of dwelling, leanto single storey extension to the side and single storey timber clad utility room to the rear together with all associated site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 23107

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

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 Parkstown.

Architectural heritage

• Parkstown House, country house, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey country house, built c.1770, with return. Replacement pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls, with sill course at first floor level and with niches to central upper floor bays. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Pedimented stone doorcase with spoked fanlight and timber panelled double doors. Internal double doors with Art Nouveau glass panels. Cast-iron water pump attached to rear elevation. Outbuildings to rear. Ashlar limestone octagonal gate piers to front.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Parkstown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2385 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Parkstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Parkstown · Baile na Páirce

Area

1,402,944 m² (140.29 ha, 346.68 acres)

Civil parish

Killaconnigan, and its townlands

Barony

Lune

Electoral division

Killaconnigan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,297 people lived in 779 households in the Killaconnigan electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballivor, Corballis, Crossanstown, Glebe, Kilballivor, Portlester, Shanco

Placenames

Parkstown 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.