Salestown

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Salestown, from 631 m² to 450,727 m² (45.07 ha, 111.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 32 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 5 May 2026N/a

  the construction a detached two storey, farm, dwelling house, with covered patio area to the rear, detached garage, new proprietary wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, all accessed via the shared entrance gateway granted permission under planning permission registry ref. RA170614, new access road, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 26124

• 3 Feb 2026Conditional

  alterations and extensions to an existing single-storey dwelling to provide a two-storey dwelling comprising 6 bedrooms. Construction of a first-floor pitched-roof extension over the existing house footprint, single-storey pitched-roof extensions to each side, and a new pitched-roof garage to the front. Construction of two two-storey extensions to the front incorporating two front-facing gables. Relocation of the front vehicular access. Installation of a new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area. Significant Further Information/Revised Plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660125

• 5 Jun 2025Conditional

  for A) Construction of extension to existing cubicle shed & underground slatted tanks B) Construction of straw & hay storage shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560616

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 Salestown.

Recorded monuments

• ME050-024 Concentric enclosure
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. This is an oval grass-covered enclosure (dims 37m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3-6m; int. H 0.6-0.8m; ext. H 1.6m at E), with an external fosse (at E: Wth 3m; ext. D 0.8m) WNW-E which continues S from the E point while the bank completes the enclosure to SW. There is a wide entrance gap (Wth 16m) in the earthen bank at W. This enclosure is within a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 90m) defined by a field bank and outer fosse (at ENE: Wth of top 5m; int. D 0.8m) NW-ENE, with a low bank and external fosse ENE-S-WNW. An entrance is not identified in the outer enclosure, but the interior is cut by smaller silted ditches connecting with the fosse of the inner enclosure. 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: 29 October 2021

• ME050-025 Church
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a level landscape. A chapel at Salestown in the large parish of Dunboyne does not occur in the ecclesiastical lists, but a decayed chapel at Salestown is listed in the Civil Survey (1654-6) Simington (1940, 125). it is amongst nine chapels in Dunboyne parish recorded by Cogan (1862-70, 1, 191), who says that the walls were torn down. FitzGerald (1917-18) says that only the foundations of the chancel were visible. This is a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 35m NE-SW; 30 NW-SE) defined by masonry walls, and the remains of the church are evident as a grass-covered cairn (dims 7-8m x c. 4.5m; H 0.5m). 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/revision: 10 April, 2015

• ME050-025001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a level landscape. The chapel of Salestown (ME050-025----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 35m NE-SW; 30 NW-SE) defined by masonry walls. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 April, 2015

• ME053-002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape, with the church at Salestown (ME050-025----) c. 600m to the NW. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) 173 acres at Salestown in Dunboyne parish were owned by a Mr. De la Sale in 1640, and on the premises was ‘one small castle, one decayed chaple and nine tenements’ (Simington 1940, 125). This is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 7.2m NW-SE; 6.1m NE-SW) surviving to the top of the vault with almost all the dressed stone removed. It is entered through a round-headed doorway towards the N end of the NW wall, which is probably the inner doorway from a lobby that has been destroyed. The doorway leads directly into a ground floor chamber with two arched recesses in the SW wall, probably for lights that are now closed and obscured, and one on the NE wall that has traces of a chimney flue. Much of the NW and the SE walls are damaged but, there is a single light towards the E end of the SE wall. The first floor is under a NW-SE barrel-vault with wicker-centring and was supported on corbels in the NE and SW walls. It has a light in the SE wall, but the NW wall is destroyed and if there was a stairs at the N angle there is no evidence of it now. Any upper floors do not survive and the top of the vault is completely overgrown. 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 revision: 13 July 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_2896 (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 Salestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Salestown

Area

1,224,776 m² (122.48 ha, 302.65 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

Affollus, Ballymacoll, Bogganstown, Catherinestown (Co. Kildare), Grange, Oldcarton (Co. Kildare)

Placenames

Salestown 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.