Ross
Townland in the civil parish of Tara, barony of Skreen, Co. Meath
- Area
- 48.6 ha
- 120 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 3,816 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ross, from 16 m² to 197,895 m² (19.79 ha, 48.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 37 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
24 Aug 2026N/a
Plannin Application: 211041 (Meath Co Co) - Permission for the construction of a revised garage design & size from that previously granted under planning application AA190163
Extension of duration, 1 home · Meath County Council, 26195
23 Nov 2023Conditional
EXTENSION OF DUARTION PLANNING PERMISSION AA190163 - A two storey dwelling, associated domestic garage, open new vehicular entrance to site, new packaged wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, new private water well, together with all associated site development works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Meath County Council, 231073
31 May 2021Conditional
(1) the retention of windows to the front elevation of the dwelling house and (2) permission for the construction of a revised garage design & size from that previously granted under planning application AA190163
Permission · Meath County Council, 211041
25 Mar 2020Conditional
dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA200406
17 Apr 2019Refused
the construction of a two storey dwelling, associated domestic garage, open new vehicular entrance to site, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new private water well, together with all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, AA190461
20 Feb 2019Conditional
a change of house type from that granted under Planning Reference: AA171353. All other development and all associated works will remain as per previously granted
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA190163
23 Nov 2017Conditional
a two storey dwelling, associated domestic garage, open new vehicular entrance to site, new packaged wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, new private water well, together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA171353
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 Ross.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ross.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ross.
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
- 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 Ross.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Ross
- Area
- 485,673 m² (48.57 ha, 120.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tara, and its townlands
- Barony
- Skreen
- Electoral division
- Tara, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tara electoral division: 1,466 people in 438 households; 89% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Baronstown, Cabragh, Collierstown, Ross
- Placenames
- Ross 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.