Polecastle

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Polecastle, from 56 m² to 153,977 m² (15.4 ha, 38.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - 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

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

• 1 Jul 2026Conditional

  planning permission for a change of house design and house and garage position to that granted under Planning file ref. No. 21/2174 and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660816

• 5 Nov 2025N/a

  Planning permission for a change of house design and position to that granted under Planning file ref. No. 21/2174 and all associated site development works at Polecastle, Lobinstown, Navan, County Meath.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561199

• 17 Jun 2024Conditional

  retention of front and rear extensions and alterations to dwelling house , retention of detached stables and change of use of same to domestic storage and car port , retention of site boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460438

• 29 Feb 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a single storey extension to dwelling, replace existing septic tank with proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, remove outbuildings, amend existing domestic entrance, construct domestic garage and store, increase height of front boundary wall along with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460146

• 12 Nov 2021Conditional

  Significant further information/ revised plans received on this application. planning permission for a proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 212174

• 5 Nov 2021Conditional

  a single storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 212135

• 22 Oct 2021N/a

  planning permission for a proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works

  Retention, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 212057

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

  proposed single storey extension to side of existing single storey dwelling and all associated works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 21711

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Polecastle.

Recorded monuments

• ME006-044 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  John Fleming of Siddan owned 500 acres and the Castle there in 1640 (Simington 1940, 360), and one of the two ruinous buildings that are depicted at Suddan on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Slane is in roughly this location. Polecastle is included within Siddan on the Down Survey map. Taylor and Skinner's map of 1793 (Andrews 1969, 260) depicts two ruins at Suddan S of the old Ardee to Kells road, which is just to the N, and the position of one ruin with the river to the S adds validity to this position. The location is described as the ‘Site of Old Castle’ on the 1836 and 1908 eds of the OS 6-inch map. This is an irregularly-shaped, grass-covered mound (diam. c. 18m; H c. 0.6m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 8 June 2016

Architectural heritage

• Milestone/milepost, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triangular-profile granite milestone, c.1780, inscribed on two sides.

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 Polecastle, 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 Polecastle.

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 Polecastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Polecastle · Páirc an Chaisleáin

Area

699,478 m² (69.95 ha, 172.84 acres)

Civil parish

Siddan, and its townlands

Barony

Slane Lower

Electoral division

Killary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,291 people lived in 467 households in the Killary electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Begsreeve, Footstown Great, Howthstown, Siddan, Woodtown Lower

Placenames

Polecastle 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.