Pighill
Pighill is a townland in the civil parish of Stackallan, barony of Slane Upper, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 50.4 ha
- 124 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 1,957 m²
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pighill, from 41 m² to 216,636 m² (21.66 ha, 53.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- 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
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Feb 2025Conditional
the development consists of flat roof open pergola over part of patio area to front of dwelling, together with all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2560121
30 Jun 2024Conditional
a single storey dwelling, shared vehicular access via existing entrance to public road, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460486
22 Jul 2022Refused
a single storey dwelling with central link element, vehicular access via existing shared entrance to public, waste water system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22974
11 Jul 2022N/a
a single storey dwelling with central link element, vehicular access via existing shared entrance to public, waste water system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22915
12 Jan 2022Refused
a single storey dwelling with central link element, vehicular access via existing shared entrance to public, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2216
7 Mar 2019Conditional
retention permission for replacement of original dwelling
Retention · Meath County Council, LB190252
28 Feb 2019Conditional
upgrading the tennis court flood lights with new poles and LED lanterns. Upgrading and replacement of boundary treatment at existing locations
Permission · Meath County Council, LB190207
19 Dec 2018N/a
for necessary reconstruction of original single storey section of dwelling during the course of development under the planning refgerence no LB/170457.
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB181531
28 Apr 2017Conditional
the development will consist of modifications to planning permission from that previously granted under planning reference no.LB/161322 which will include omission of detached domestic garage and relocating garage under sun terrace, modifications to elevations, alterations to driveway layout and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, LB170457
25 Apr 2017Conditional
the development will consist of the retention of an agricultural entrance gate & gate posts and including all associated site works
Retention · Meath County Council, LB170446
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 Pighill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pighill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pighill.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Pighill, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pighill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Pighill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Pighill
- Area
- 503,708 m² (50.37 ha, 124.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stackallan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slane Upper
- Electoral division
- Stackallan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 751 people lived in 230 households in the Stackallan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickdexter, Cruicetown, Rushwee, Rushwee
- Placenames
- Pighill 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.