Princetown

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Princetown, from 663 m² to 143,591 m² (14.36 ha, 35.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.

• 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.

• 22 Oct 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling, renovations & alterations to the existing dwelling, the demolition of existing store and garage, and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2561130

• 30 Jun 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling, a detached domestic garage, a domestic wastewater disposal system, upgrade and relocation of the existing site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560672

• 23 Nov 2018Conditional

  a storey and a half style extension to the rear of existing dwelling, closing up existing front door and all ancillary site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA181401

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 Princetown.

Recorded monuments

• ME033-051 Souterrain
  Description

  Described and mapped in the Schools Manuscript Collection(1938). When workmen were digging 'they came across some flags which when removed revealed an underground chamber with passage connecting it to the surface' (pers. comm. Mr Colin Byrne, Briarleas, county Meath). See this web-page accessed on 18/08/2017: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008902/4965375 Compiled by Geraldine Stout Date of revised upload: 18/08/2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Princetown.

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 Princetown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Princetown

Area

908,013 m² (90.8 ha, 224.37 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcath, and its townlands

Barony

Duleek Upper

Electoral division

Ardcath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,119 people lived in 721 households in the Ardcath electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balgeeth, Moorepark, Rath

Placenames

Princetown 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.