Scallanstown
Townland in the civil parish of Liscartan, barony of Navan Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 159 ha
- 393 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 4,497 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scallanstown, from 591 m² to 623,283 m² (62.33 ha, 154.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 · 47 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
19 Sept 2025Refused
the proposed works is for an agricultural development and will consist of the following: (1) Construct new agricultural entrance and agricultural access drive (2) demolish existing double portal hay barn and construct new single portal agricultural hay barn and machinery shed (3) all ancillary site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2561000
12 Sept 2025N/a
the proposed works is for an agricultural development and will consist of the following: (1) Construct new agricultural entrance and agricultural access drive (2) demolish existing double portal hay barn and construct new single portal agricultural hay barn and machinery shed (3) all ancillary site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2560967
3 Oct 2018Conditional
A) Construction of livestock cubicle shed with associated underground slatted tank, straw bedding shed and calf shed. B) Construction of silage Pit. C) Construction of overground slurry storage tower and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application
Permission · Meath County Council, NA181152
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Scallanstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Scallanstown.
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 10 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2641 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Scallanstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Scallanstown
- Area
- 1,590,227 m² (159.02 ha, 392.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Liscartan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Navan Lower
- Electoral division
- Ardbraccan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardbraccan electoral division: 2,363 people in 757 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardbraccan, Donaghpatrick, Liscartan, Tankardstown, Tatestown
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Scallanstown 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.