# Philipstown, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Diamor, barony of Fore, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,182,528 m² (118.25 ha, 292.21 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 27,877 m² (2.79 ha, 6.89 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Diamor, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/diamor.md - Barony: Fore - Electoral division: Knocklough, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 211 people lived in 73 households in the Knocklough electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/38835 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 161291 - Centre: latitude 53.72773, longitude -7.060982 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Philipstown, from 577 m² to 122,257 m² (12.23 ha, 30.21 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 216057: 122,257 m² (12.23 ha, 30.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/216057.md - Parcel 2633853: 114,670 m² (11.47 ha, 28.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2633853.md - Parcel 193925: 111,764 m² (11.18 ha, 27.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/193925.md - Parcel 168876: 93,774 m² (9.38 ha, 23.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/168876.md - Parcel 191630: 93,620 m² (9.36 ha, 23.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/191630.md - Parcel 4166644: 89,538 m² (8.95 ha, 22.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4166644.md - Parcel 155377: 89,247 m² (8.92 ha, 22.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/155377.md - Parcel 139075: 86,743 m² (8.67 ha, 21.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/139075.md - Parcel 203187: 83,472 m² (8.35 ha, 20.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/203187.md - Parcel 167282: 63,153 m² (6.32 ha, 15.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/167282.md - Parcel 207063: 46,900 m² (4.69 ha, 11.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/207063.md - Parcel 141697: 34,976 m² (3.5 ha, 8.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/141697.md - Parcel 168875: 32,867 m² (3.29 ha, 8.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/168875.md - Parcel 145407: 31,029 m² (3.1 ha, 7.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/145407.md - Parcel 187697: 27,877 m² (2.79 ha, 6.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/187697.md - Parcel 211555: 23,866 m² (2.39 ha, 5.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/211555.md - Parcel 206923: 21,946 m² (2.19 ha, 5.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/206923.md - Parcel 146122: 14,115 m² (1.41 ha, 3.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/146122.md - Parcel 205025: 7,023 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/205025.md - Parcel 181214: 4,256 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/181214.md - Parcel 148792: 3,944 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/148792.md - Parcel 3036535: 3,315 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3036535.md - Parcel 201920: 3,236 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/201920.md - Parcel 3252446: 2,728 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3252446.md - Parcel 138532: 2,527 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/138532.md - Parcel 205346: 1,825 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/205346.md - Parcel 135887: 1,671 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/135887.md - Parcel 2651506: 1,061 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2651506.md - Parcel 5044513: 577 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5044513.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath; 48 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 16 Dec 2025, Meath County Council 2561372: N/a. Retention. the development will consist of the following: (1) Retention for agricultural buildings (2) retention of mobile homes (3) retention of agricultural office (4) And all associated ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561372/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Philipstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Philipstown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Philipstown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Philipstown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Philipstown. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/meath/philipstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/philipstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/philipstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Philipstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Belview: https://everytownland.com/meath/belview.md - Bobsville: https://everytownland.com/meath/bobsville.md - Clonabreany: https://everytownland.com/meath/clonabreany.md - Dogstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/dogstown-160597.md - Thomastown: https://everytownland.com/meath/thomastown-161544.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/meath/philipstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/philipstown