Rowan

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rowan, from 1,997 m² to 353,934 m² (35.39 ha, 87.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 · 39 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1E2/E3 - General Enterprise and Employment/ Warehousing and Distribution (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 13 Sept 2024Conditional

  the proposed development will consist of an application for a 10-year planning permission for the construction of, and a 40 year operation and subsequent decommissioning of, a development consisting of a 215 hectare solar farm (red line boundary). The solar farm comprises of two separate land parcels divided by local roads. The proposed solar farm will consist of a series of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, mounted on steel support structures and in some areas on concrete shoes to protect possible underground archaeological features, together with 28 electrical transformation enclosures, underground cabling, 2 no. temporary construction compounds, the use of existing farm access tracks and existing site entrances, inverters, CCTV poles and cameras, deer type security/boundary fencing with some areas of boundary development on concrete shoes to further protect possible underground archaeological features, landscaping and biodiversity measures and all associated ancillary development works, for the purpose of generating renewable energy electricity and transmitting it in the townlands of Ballymacoll Little, Boolies, Nuttstown, Ballintry, Belgree, Rowan and Kinoristown, Co. Meath. A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the Planning Authority with this application. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460742

• 21 May 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of renovations & alterations to an existing dwelling, the demolition of previous extension to the side of the existing dwelling, new single storey extensions to the front and rear of the existing dwelling, new storey and a half extension to the side of the existing dwelling, the provision of a granny/family flat within the existing dwelling, all associated elevational changes to the existing dwelling, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and upgrade to a new wastewater disposal system in a revised location, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460359

• 14 May 2024N/a

  the development will consist of renovations & alterations to an existing dwelling, the demolition of previous extension to the side of the existing dwelling, new single storey extensions to the front and rear of the existing dwelling, new storey and a half extension to the side of the existing dwelling, the provision of a granny/family flat within the existing dwelling, all associated elevational changes to the existing dwelling, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and upgrade to a new wastewater disposal system in a revised location, and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460341

• 7 Dec 2023Refused

  renovations & alterations to an existing dwelling, the demolition of previous extensions to the side of the existing dwelling, new single storey extensions to the rear and sides of the existing dwelling including the provision of a granny flat, all associated elevational changes to the house, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and upgrade to a new wastewater disposal system in a revised location, modification of the existing domestic site entrances and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 231108

• 9 Nov 2023N/a

  renovations & alterations to an existing dwelling, the demolition of previous extensions to the side of the existing dwelling, new single storey extensions to the rear and sides of the existing dwelling including the provision of a granny flat, all associated elevational changes to the house, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and upgrade to a new wastewater disposal system in a revised location, modification of the existing domestic site entrances and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 231043

• 25 Oct 2023N/a

  renovations & alterations to an existing dwelling, new single storey extensions to the rear and sides of the existing dwelling including the provision of a granny flat, all associated elevational changes to the house, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and upgrade to a new wastewater disposal system in a revised location , modification of the existing domestic site entrances and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 231003

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 Rowan.

Recorded monuments

• ME051-003 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight E-facing slope. The cropmark of a large subrectangular or D-shaped enclosure (ext. dims c. 90m N-S; c. 80m E-W) is visible on oblique aerial photographs (CUCAP: AYR056-057; BDH029-030; BDK005) from 1969-70. The straight sides are at W and S, and its curved edge is parallel with a mapped field bank but is not incorporated in it. The enclosure is defined by two ditches that were probably on either side of an earthen bank (Wth c. 5m plus), and the interior is quartered by drains. It is also visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013; 06/06/2016). The abive 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: 5 November 2021

• ME051-016001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 5m) defined by a single wide fosse feature (Wth c. 2-3m) is visible on Google Earth images (12-07-2013) and on Bing images (2013). It was first identified by Tom Condit and the ring-ditch (ME051-016002-) is c. 35m to the SSW. See the attached enhanced view from Digital Globe (2011-2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 May 2017

• ME051-016002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 10-12m) defined by a single narrow fosse feature is visible on Google Earth images (12-07-2013) and on Bing images (2013). It was first identified by Tom Condit and the ring-ditch (ME051-016001-) is c. 35m to the NNE. See the attached enhanced view from Digital Globe (2011-2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 May 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2998 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Rowan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Rowan

Area

732,814 m² (73.28 ha, 181.08 acres)

Civil parish

Dunboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Dunboyne

Electoral division

Dunboyne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunboyne electoral division: 10,698 people in 3,434 households; 78% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintry, Gunnocks, Kinoristown, Mayne, Normansgrove, Nuttstown, Portmanna, Stokestown

Placenames

Rowan 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.