# Salestown, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Dunboyne, barony of Dunboyne, Co. Meath.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,224,776 m² (122.48 ha, 302.65 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 39,961 m² (4 ha, 9.87 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Dunboyne, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/dunboyne.md
- Barony: Dunboyne
- Electoral division: Dunboyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37804
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 161454
- Centre: latitude 53.403832, longitude -6.536333 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Salestown, from 631 m² to 450,727 m² (45.07 ha, 111.38 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 209214: 450,727 m² (45.07 ha, 111.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/209214.md
- Parcel 215682: 308,947 m² (30.89 ha, 76.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/215682.md
- Parcel 188254: 108,432 m² (10.84 ha, 26.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/188254.md
- Parcel 194833: 106,141 m² (10.61 ha, 26.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/194833.md
- Parcel 171218: 84,128 m² (8.41 ha, 20.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/171218.md
- Parcel 186759: 44,313 m² (4.43 ha, 10.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/186759.md
- Parcel 195460: 42,507 m² (4.25 ha, 10.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/195460.md
- Parcel 213981: 39,961 m² (4 ha, 9.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/213981.md
- Parcel 2479135: 24,272 m² (2.43 ha, 6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2479135.md
- Parcel 215236: 3,366 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/215236.md
- Parcel 214561: 3,135 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/214561.md
- Parcel 152174: 2,864 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/152174.md
- Parcel 211162: 2,297 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/211162.md
- Parcel 193457: 2,022 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/193457.md
- Parcel 4632459: 631 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632459.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath; 32 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/meath-adopted-county-development-plan

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 5 May 2026, Meath County Council 26124: N/a. Permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/26124/0
- 3 Feb 2026, Meath County Council 2660125: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660125/0
- 5 Jun 2025, Kildare County Council 2560616: Conditional. Permission. for A) Construction of extension to existing cubicle shed & underground slatted tanks B) Construction of straw & hay storage shed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560616/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Salestown.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- ME050-024: Concentric enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME050-024----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME050-025----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME050-025001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME053-002----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2896.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/meath/salestown.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/salestown.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/salestown.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Salestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Affollus: https://everytownland.com/meath/affollus.md
- Ballymacoll: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballymacoll.md
- Bogganstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/bogganstown-160262.md
- Catherinestown (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/catherinestown.md
- Grange: https://everytownland.com/meath/grange-160808.md
- Oldcarton (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/oldcarton.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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