Pilltown
Townland in the civil parish of Colp, barony of Duleek Lower, Co. Meath; in Irish Baile Phoill
- Area
- 116.7 ha
- 288 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 4,008 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pilltown, from 130 m² to 427,752 m² (42.78 ha, 105.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 · 62 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
23 May 2025Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of a revised garage design & revised location for the garage on the site and all associated works from that previously granted under planning application 2276
Permission · Meath County Council, 2560525
30 Sept 2024Conditional
the development will consist of the following: 1. New LED light fittings to 4no. existing poles at 12metres high on south side of juvenile pitch. 2. New 4no. 12metre high poles with LED light fittings on north side of juvenile pitch. 3. Retention of 12metre high ball stop nets to east and west side of juvenile pitch 4. All associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2460801
9 May 2023Conditional
a 10-year planning permission for a Solar PV Energy Development with a total site area of c. 41.3ha, to include solar panels mounted on steel support structures, associated cabling and ducting, 11 No. MV Power Stations, 1 No. Client Substation, 10 No. Battery Storage Containers, 1 No. Temporary Construction Compound, tracks, boundary security fencing and security gates, CCTV, landscaping and ancillary works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted to the Planning Authority with the Application. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 23495
8 Sept 2022N/a
the variation to grant of permission (ref no. 21161) for a section of the new multi-purpose room extension to be partitioned off and 3no. hot desks provided and used by the local community all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 221171
25 Jan 2022Conditional
the construction of a revised garage design & revised location for the garage on the site and all associated works from that previously granted under planning application LB/190758
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2276
25 Feb 2021Conditional
development will consist of the following: 1. Existing all weather pitch surface to be upgraded to new 4g surface located in the north of the grounds. 2. Existing light fittings to 8no. floodlighting poles (at main pitches) to be upgraded to new LED light fittings along with all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 21353
28 Jan 2021Conditional
the construction of new extension to south side of existing multi-purpose room and provision of additional parking along with all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 21161
11 Oct 2019Conditional
minor changes to the clubhouse design, including revisions to elevations & interior layout, as per previously granted permission (Ref. SA130986) & extension of duration (Ref: LB181215).
Permission · Meath County Council, LB191346
13 Jun 2019Conditional
the construction of a two storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling with a new single storey entrance block, conversion of part of the existing dwelling to serve as a granny flat, demolishment of existing domestic garage and the construction of a new domestic garage, new packaged wasterwater treatment system and polishing filter, together with all ancillary internal and external refurbishment works and all associated works
Permission · Meath County Council, LB190758
26 Jun 2018Conditional
the development consists of: (a) retention of utility room to rear of existing dwelling; (b) retention of sunroom to south-western side of existing dwelling; (c) retention of garage converted to en-suite bedroom to north-eastern side of existing dwelling; (d) retention of detached domestic garage to rear of existing dwelling; (e) retention and completion of upgrading works to existing wastewater treatment system consisting of new proprietary wasterwater treatment system and sand polishing filter, retrofitted to existing septic tank
Retention · Meath County Council, LB180696
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 Pilltown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pilltown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pilltown.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pilltown.
- 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 Pilltown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Pilltown · Baile Phoill
- Area
- 1,166,776 m² (116.68 ha, 288.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Colp, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duleek Lower
- Electoral division
- Julianstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Julianstown electoral division: 11,501 people in 3,991 households; 74% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymad, Betaghstown, Colp East, Painestown
- Placenames
- Pilltown 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.