Seneschalstown

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Seneschalstown, from 95 m² to 244,709 m² (24.47 ha, 60.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 71 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 23 Jan 2026N/a

  The development will consist of change of use of existing cottage to use as home office & store ancillary to dwelling and to construct a replacement two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, remove existing septic tank and install a replacement proprietary sewage treatment system and to relocate existing entrance from public road.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660090

• 7 Aug 2025Refused

  the development will consist of installing an 8-hectare sub-surface irrigation system, including a filter-pumphouse, storage tank, pipework and valves to facilitate the dispersal of treated effluent from the existing on-site wastewater treatment plant. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR). This application relates to a development for the purposes of an activity that holds an Industrial Emissions Licence (Reg No. P0811-02)

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560826

• 1 Aug 2025N/a

  the development will consist of installing an 8-hectare sub-surface irrigation system, including a filter-pumphouse, storage tank, pipework and valves to facilitate the dispersal of treated effluent from the existing on-site wastewater treatment plant. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR). This application relates to a development for the purposes of an activity that holds an Industrial Emissions Licence (Reg No . P081 1-02)

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560806

• 28 Jul 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of construction of a single storey extension to side & rear of existing dwelling with courtyard & covered area to rear and to provide Proprietary Sewage Treatment System with associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360189

• 2 Sept 2020Conditional

  the demolition of existing single storey rear extension and rear outbuildings and the construction of a new single storey rear extension along with alterations to the existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB201171

• 2 Jun 2020Conditional

  construction of a storey & a half style dwelling with detached domestic garage and to install a proprietary sewage treatment system. To remove existing adjoining house septic tank and replace with a proprietary sewage treatment system and to form new entrance from public road with associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB200673

• 29 Jan 2019Conditional

  a 69 sq.m domestic shed / fuel store

  Permission · Meath County Council, LB190084

• 26 Jun 2018Refused

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION SA/130228 - Private dwelling

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB180694

• 28 Sept 2017Conditional

  1. Construction of a new classroom extension to the front of the existing school comprising 2 no. classrooms, toilets and storerooms. 2 . New double doors to rear of existing school. 3. All associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, LB171134

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 Seneschalstown.

Recorded monuments

• ME026-009 Ogham stone
  Description

  Discovered 'lying in a field near Seneschalstown House' (Macalister 1945, 45) this stone is in the National Museum of Ireland (see DU018-391----). The stone (2.24m x 0.76m x 0.33m) bears an 'inscription in two lines on the face, not on the edge (up-up)' which Macalister read as: MAQI-CAIRATINI AVI INEQAGLAS (ibid.). (Moore 1987, no. 1585) This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=40 Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 6 January 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Seneschalstown, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Seneschalstown.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Seneschalstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Seneschalstown · Baile an tSeanascail

Area

1,722,920 m² (172.29 ha, 425.74 acres)

Civil parish

Painestown, and its townlands

Barony

Duleek Lower

Electoral division

Painestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,260 people lived in 414 households in the Painestown electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brownstown, Curraghtown, Dollardstown, Haystown and Carnuff Little, Painestown

Placenames

Seneschalstown 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.