Redmountain
Redmountain is a townland in the civil parish of Duleek, barony of Duleek Lower, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is An Mullach Rua.
- Area
- 40.9 ha
- 101 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 27,832 m² (2.78 ha, 6.88 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Redmountain, from 2,187 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 242,415 m² (24.24 ha, 59.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 · 20 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
No planning application touches the townland of Redmountain in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Redmountain.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Redmountain.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey farmhouse, built c.1870, on a rectangular plan with windbreak. Now derelict. Rendered mud and rubble stone walls. Pitched corrugated metal sheet roof with centrally located rendered chimneystack. Remains of windbreak, built of rendered mud and stone, to centre of front elevation. Square-headed openings with remnants of timber sash windows. Remains of earlier stone and mud outbuildings/dwellings to site.
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 Redmountain, about 1 in 10 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 Redmountain.
- 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 Redmountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Redmountain · An Mullach Rua
- Area
- 408,951 m² (40.9 ha, 101.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duleek, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duleek Lower
- Electoral division
- Duleek, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 6,250 people lived in 2,005 households in the Duleek electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonlusk, Corballis, Cruicerath, Newtown, Roughgrange, Stalleen
- Placenames
- Redmountain 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.