Realtoge
Realtoge is a townland in the civil parish of Brownstown, barony of Skreen, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is Réaltóg.
- Area
- 101.8 ha
- 252 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 3,607 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Realtoge, from 11 m² to 293,604 m² (29.36 ha, 72.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 · 59 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
30 Jul 2026Conditional
the development will consist of (1) the demolition of the attached storeroom located to the rear of the existing dwelling (2) construction of family flat within a single storey extension to the side/rear of the existing dwelling. Permission is also sought for renovations, extension and alterations to existing dwelling including, (3) change of use of attached garage to habitable accommodation (4) first floor extension to the side of the existing dwelling, (5) new balustrading to the existing balcony. (6) revised window / door openings (7) revision of site boundaries (8) decommissioning of the existing domestic septic tank system, and the installation of a replacement wastewater disposal system, and all associated site works and services
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660958
23 Feb 2026Conditional
the development will consist of permission to upgrade the existing waste water treatment system with a new waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter and decommission the existing waste water treatment system together with all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660208
4 Jun 2021Refused
construction of a single storey style dwelling with detached domestic garage, install a septic tank & percolation area and form new entrance from public road
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211089
8 Apr 2019Conditional
construction of a storey and a half style dwelling with detached domestic garage, install a proprietary sewage treatment system and form new entrance to public road
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, AA190407
8 Aug 2018Conditional
construction of single storey dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, AA180883
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 Realtoge.
Recorded monuments
- ME026-011 Ringfort - rath
Description
The following 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 upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Uneven oval area defined by earthen bank (dims. 49m NW-SE, 41m NE-SW) with external fosse. House site, defined by earthen bank with external ditch (L 9m N-S, W 5m E-W) against inner edge of bank at E. Entrance gap, but no causeway at SE.
- ME026-012 Moated site
Description
The following 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 upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Rectangular area defined by banks, highest at corners (dims. 25m N-S, 23m E-W) with external fosse and leat. No visible entrance. This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1972).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Realtoge.
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 Realtoge, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2826 (ZIP).
- 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 Realtoge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Realtoge · Réaltóg
- Area
- 1,018,495 m² (101.85 ha, 251.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Brownstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Skreen
- Electoral division
- Ardmulchan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,137 people lived in 370 households in the Ardmulchan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brownstown, Follistown, Harristown, Haystown and Carnuff Little, Staffordstown
- Placenames
- Realtoge 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.