Rathmaiden
Rathmaiden is a townland in the civil parish of Slane, barony of Slane Upper, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 158.6 ha
- 392 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 14,123 m² (1.41 ha, 3.49 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmaiden, from 86 m² to 244,556 m² (24.46 ha, 60.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 · 67 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
8 Nov 2025Conditional
Planning permission sought to retain and complete the dwelling house, and garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto public road, proposed works will include alteration of house design and upgrading the waste water treatment system design, formation of independent vehicular entrance and all associated site development works granted under planning ref. No. 21/102. This planning application will replace and supersede the grant of permission ref. No. 21/102
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561217
4 Jul 2025Conditional
planning permission to retain and complete the dwelling house and garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works granted under planning ref: No. 21/100. This planning application will replace and supersede the grant of permission ref. 21/100. Significant Further Information/Revised Plans submitted on this application.
Permission · Meath County Council, 25123
19 Apr 2024Conditional
dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460265
18 Dec 2023N/a
a change of use of an existing meat processing building to a one bedroom Granny Flat dwelling unit and all site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 231143
24 Nov 2023N/a
a change of use of an existing meat processing building to a one bedroom "Granny Flat" dwelling unit and all site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 231077
16 Mar 2023Conditional
the construction of a storey and a half house including a waste water treatment unit and percolation area, a new entrance onto the public road
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23281
19 Aug 2022N/a
the construction of a storey and a half house including a waste water treatment unit and percolation area, a new entrance onto the public road
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221084
19 Aug 2022N/a
the construction of a storey and a half house including a waste water treatment unit and percolation area, a new entrance onto the public road
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221085
13 May 2021N/a
the construction of a storey and a half house including a waste water treatment unit and percolation area and new entrance onto the public road
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21899
13 May 2021N/a
the construction of a storey and a half house including a waste water treatment unit and percolation area and new entrance onto the public road
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21902
4 Mar 2021Conditional
two storey dormer type house, detached domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, soil polishing filter area, well, new entrance onto public road & all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21408
21 Jan 2021Conditional
a two storey dwelling with proprietary effluent treatment system/percolation area. I am also applying for permission to construct a vehicular access, as part of a shared dual access, from the public road along with the ancillary development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21100
21 Jan 2021Conditional
a storey and a half type dwelling with proprietary effluent treatment system/percolation area. I am also applying for permission to construct a vehicular access, as part of a shared dual access, from the public road along with the ancillary development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21102
15 Jan 2019Conditional
the construction of a storey and a half house, waste water treatment unit and percolation area and new entrance on to the public road
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB190018
12 Dec 2018Conditional
change of use of existing agricultural building to craft workshop and display area, retention permission for conversion of existing agricultural building to craft workshop and store, retention permission for constructed office accommodation (attached to existing farm building) and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, LB181490
2 Oct 2018Conditional
permission to construct a two storey dwelling, upgrade existing vehicular entrance, install a new waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works and services
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB181146
8 Feb 2018Conditional
dwellinghouse, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, detached domestic garage and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB180117
29 Jun 2017Conditional
retention and change of use of existing outhouse for artisan meat processing and packing area and all site works
Retention · Meath County Council, LB170748
12 Jun 2017N/a
retention of existing detached outhouse and change of use for this building to a food preparation area and all site works
Retention · Meath County Council, LB170670
13 Feb 2017Conditional
development will consist of construction of 4 bedroom, 2 storey dwelling & double garage, new vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system & associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB170140
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 Rathmaiden.
Recorded monuments
- ME019-002 Barrow - mound barrow
Description
Located at the crest of a NE-facing slope. It is depicted as a small oval stippled feature (dims c. 23m E-W; c. 15m N-S) and described as a quarry on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was described in 1970 (SMR file) as a slight grass-covered D-shaped mound (dims 20m N-S; 12m E-W; max. H 1.4m) which has been partially dug away at the W side. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 July 2007 Amended: 27 January 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathmaiden.
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 Rathmaiden, about 1 in 20 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 Rathmaiden.
- 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 Rathmaiden with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Rathmaiden
- Area
- 1,586,107 m² (158.61 ha, 391.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Slane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slane Upper
- Electoral division
- Slane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,936 people lived in 687 households in the Slane electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cardrath, Commons, Grangegeeth, Higginstown, Knockerk, Mullaghdillon
- Placenames
- Rathmaiden 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.