Rackenstown

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rackenstown, from 50 m² to 181,300 m² (18.13 ha, 44.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 43 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Jul 2026N/a

  THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF A DWELLING AND GARAGE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660896

• 2 Jul 2026N/a

  THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF A DWELLING AND GARAGE WITH A SUITABLE WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660827

• 19 Sept 2025Conditional

  a proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto the public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560999

• 7 Dec 2023Conditional

  a dwelling and garage with associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360454

• 22 Aug 2022Conditional

  to decommission the existing treatment system and percolation area on site and to install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area to the rear of existing dwelling house, and permission for retention of alterations to site boundary from that previously granted under 01833 and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221093

• 4 Feb 2021Conditional

  the development consists of retention for a 29m2 single storey, pitched roof, detached store/garden room to the rear of the property for uses ancillary to the residential use of the existing dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21187

• 31 Jul 2020Refused

  the construction of a part two storey, part single storey 4-bedroom detached dwelling, a new wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, a new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA201028

• 8 Nov 2019Conditional

  (A) Extensions, alterations and refurbishment of the existing two storey detached dwelling house consisting of the demolition of the existing two storey side extension and replacing it with a new two storey extension containing an independent one bedroom, family living unit with connecting door at ground floor level. Demolition of the existing single storey extension to the rear and construction of a new single storey extension in its place. Reconstruction of the existing roof at a higher level, new bay windows to the front, side & rear elevations, along with associated elevational modifications and alterations. All associated ancillary works, services, service connections, landscaping and site development works. (B) Reconstruction/replacement & relocation of the existing curtain & blinds workshop building with a new single storey detached building to the rear, existing workshop to be demolished. All associated ancillary works, services, service connections, landscaping and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA191494

• 2 Jul 2018Conditional

  a two storey dwelling house, detached garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA180720

• 5 May 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of the erection of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, new entrance onto public road, landscaping and all ancillary site works to serve the dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA170487

• 14 Mar 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of upgrading works to existing single storey detached bunglaow house to include conversion of existing garage, construction of single storey extension to rear and side of exisitng house, 3 no rooflights, removal of existing chimney stack, alterations to existing elevations, SUDS drainage, new Oakstown effluent treatmen system, Tertiary polishing filter and all associatesd ancillary works to facilitate the development

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA170257

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 Rackenstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rackenstown.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rackenstown.

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.

• Rackenstown, Dunshaughlin7 sales

Name

Rackenstown · Baile an Racáin

Area

919,538 m² (91.95 ha, 227.22 acres)

Civil parish

Ratoath, and its townlands

Barony

Ratoath

Electoral division

Ratoath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ratoath electoral division: 11,894 people in 3,639 households; 84% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Flemingtown, Gaulstown, Hallstown, Lagore Little, Trevet Grange

Placenames

Rackenstown 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.