Sheephouse

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheephouse, from 986 m² to 324,124 m² (32.41 ha, 80.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 44 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3E1 - Strategic Employment Zones (High Technology Uses) (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1WL - White Lands (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1A2 - New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 9 Sept 2024Refused

  the development consists of the retention for the change of use from domestic residence to short stay holiday home, and the construction of 6 short stay holiday homes, Landscaping and boundary treatments, new waste water treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460722

• 26 Apr 2023Refused

  the construction of 6 short stay, holiday home accommodate, Landscaping and boundary treatments, new waste water treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23457

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  The proposed development will consist of an uprate of the existing Drybridge to Platin 110 kV Overhead line (OHL) {approximately 5.6 km long and comprising 33no. structures (excluding LCIM 13a and LCIM 14 which are consented under separate planning application) and 2no. gantries between the existing Drybridge 110 kV substation in the townland of Tullyallen, Co. Louth and the existing Platin 110kV substation in the townland of Platin, Co. Meath). The majority of the existing OHL circuit is located within the functional area of Meath County Council with less than 0.5 km in the functional area of Louth County Council. The proposed uprate development is located in the townland of Tullvallen in Countv Louth and the townlands of Oldbridge, Sheephouse, Rathmullan, Donore and Platin in County Meath.The proposed uprate development will comprise: • the replacement ("restringing") of the existing overhead line circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor including installation of a new fibre communication connection; • the replacement of 11 No. existing polesets (including 1 No. wooden poleset conversion from strain to suspension poleset structure} and S No towers (4 No steel angle masts and 1 No. steel end mast in Platin 110kV substation - this unit will be replaced and reoriented) - any replacement structures will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to the existing structures they will replace, will be along the same alignment as existing, and will be of a generally similar appearance with minor increases in height generally between 0.5-lm with the highest increase in height of a structure being 2m; • replacement and reorientation of steel end mast in Platin 110kV substation; • replacement of gantry in Drybridge 110kV substation; • foundation strengthening works at 1 No. steel angle mast; • the replacement of steel members at 3 No. steel angle masts; • painting of all steel members at 2 No. steel angle masts; • replacement of hardware and fittings at all structure locations; • replacement and relocation of fibre communication structures; • all associated site development works; • all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including clearance of vegetation, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/ piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing; and ......

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221718

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  "DIRECT APPLICATION TO AN BORD PLEANALA - SUBMISSION TO AN BORD PLEANALA". (i) demolition of existing farm buildings/structures (1160sqm) on site; (ii) construction of 661 no. residential dwellings and a neighbourhood centre adjacent to the site’s eastern boundary, consisting of a childcare facility (486sqm), café (63sqm) and retail unit (318sqm); (iii) a 4-arm signalised junction and works to Rathmullan Road, including the widening of the existing carriageway to 6 metres and the provision of a 2 metre wide footpath linking the proposed development to the River Boyne Boardwalk; (iv) 2 no. priority junctions (one along the site’s eastern boundary to provide access to the neighbourhood centre and one along the site’s southern boundary to provide a second access to the development), realignment and upgrade works to the un-named local road along the site frontage to the south of the new signalised junction with Rathmullan Road; (v) Construction of a strategic foul water pumping station in the north-eastern corner of the site; and (vi) all associated site, landscaping and infrastructural works, including foul and surface water drainage, attenuation areas, open space areas, boundary walls and fences, internal roads and cycle paths and footpaths. The 661 no. residential dwellings consist of the following: • 509 no. double storey semi-detached and terraced houses comprising 158 no. 2-bed houses, 269 no. 3-bed houses and 82 no. 4-bed houses; and • 152 no. apartments (in Blocks B1, B2, B3, C, D, E & G which vary from 3 to 5 storeys in height) comprising 13 no. 1-bed apartments and 139 no. 2-bed apartments. A total of 1,366 no. car parking spaces are proposed, including 1018 no. spaces (2 no. on curtilage spaces per dwelling) serving the proposed dwellings, 195 no. spaces serving the proposed apartments; 111 no. spaces serving visitors to the development; and 42 no. spaces serving the proposed neighbourhood centre. A total of 188 no. bicycle parking spaces are proposed, including 154 no. spaces serving the proposed apartments and 34 no. spaces serving the proposed neighbourhood centre. The development also features 9.15 hectares of public open space, including landscaped play spaces and pocket parks throughout the development and 6.13 hectares of landscaped open space provided adjacent to the Boyne River and M1 motorway frontages. This application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).

  Permission, 661 homes · Meath County Council, SH305552

• 23 Oct 2017Refused

  the development will consist of telecommunications infrastructure comprising of; a 30m lattice tower (with antenna on top, overall height 32.7m), equipment cabin, cabinets. ancillary equipment, fencing, access track and all associated site works. The development will form part of 2RN's digital terrestrail television (DTT) and radio broadcast infrastructure. It will also be made available to other interested parties; mobile telephone and broadband operators, private communications companies and the emergency services

  Permission · Meath County Council, LB171233

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299

Recorded monuments

• ME020-008 Enclosure
  Description

  The following 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. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Circular cropmark visible on aerial photograph (ACAP, 912), confirmed in resistivity survey conducted in 1984 by R. Doggert and M. Gowan (diam. c. 50m).

• ME020-011 Church
  Description

  Located on top of a hill with a wide view over the valley of the River Boyne with Oldbridge c. 2km to the NW. A chapel at Donore is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Cal. doc. Ire. 5, 254). Ussher describes the church and chancel at Dunmore or Donowre as repaired (Erlington 1847-64, 1, lxvii). The Jacobite army camped on the hill before the battle of the Boyne in 1690, and James II is said to have viewed the battle from this vantage point (Hall 1842, 2, 431 2). According to Dopping’s Visitation (1682-5) the church of St Mannore had been repaired by John Jemmet, a papist, and the graveyard was not fenced (Ellison 1971, 36-7). The dedication could be to Moninne, a highly mythologised female saint, associated particularly with Killevy, Co. Armagh (Ó Riain 2011, 495-7), or more probably Fiontan Fionn, associated with Dromin, Co. Louth (ibid. 343-4). The parish church of Donore is within an oval graveyard (dims c. 60m ENE-WSW; c. 35m NNW-SSE) defined by masonry walls and many of the headstones have been recorded (Sadleir 1913-14). There is a watch house, which is a masonry structure (ext. dims 3.55m E-W; 2.6m N-S) with a stone roof on the perimeter of the graveyard at S. It has a doorway and two slit windows at N, facing into the graveyard. It would have been used in the 18th and early 19th centuries to deter grave robbing. The foundations of the E end of the church are visible (ext. dims 10m plus E-W; 7.2m N-S). The head of a disc-headed cross (ME020-011003-) was present in 1968 but is now missing, and a graveslab, commemorating John Senet who died in 1609 (D’Alton 1844, 2, 464; Wilde 1850, 243 Sadlier 1913-14), is in the graveyard. The graveslab (dims 1.55m x 0.98m; T 0.1m) has a crest and an incised inscription, but the head of the slab is damaged. 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. See the attached image of the Senet graveslab. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 15 December, 2014

• ME020-011001 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on the top of Donore hill. The remains of the medieval church (ME020-011----) are located in a walled graveyard (dims c. 60m ENE-WSW; c. 35m NNW-SSE) which contains a 17th century tombstone (ME020-011002-) and a cross-head (ME020-011003-). There are also 18th century and 19th century memorials, which are recorded (Sadleir 1913-14). Near the gate of the graveyard is a watch-house, which would have formerly used to guard against the possible exhumation of the recently buried by body-snatchers.. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout

• ME020-011002 Graveslab
  Description

  A 17th century graveslab is located at the E end of the medieval church (ME020-011----) within Donore graveyard( ME020-011001-). It is sandatone (dims 1.55m x 0.98m; T 0.1m) and has a crest inscribed on the surface. It is dedicated to John Senet, who died in 1609 (D’Alton 1844, 2, 464; Wilde 1850, 243). It has been described by Sadlier (1913-14) as: Large altar-tomb, in ruined chancel, with arms of ||Genet impaling BlaKe (?), and below the initials I.G. On either side of the shield, and running parallel to the sides of the slab, are the following lines: ALL PEOPLE THAT ON EARTH / DRAW BREATH / IN HEALTH PREPARE FOR THE HOUR / OF DEATH. Above and below the shield is the following: ....TH...THE / ......JOHN GENET / ....RIDGE ../ THIS TOMBE WHO DEPARTED / THIS LIFE 1690 (?) / THE POORE OF THE WORLDE THE / HEAVENS AND THE GRAVE HIS / ALMES HIS PRAISE HIS SOULE / AND DODIE HAVE... This curious monument is evidently to John Genet, of Oldbridge, referred to in the previous inscription. The charge on the impaled shield is not quite clear, but appears to be a fret, so the arms are possibly those of Blake. To obtain its proper meaning the last four lines of the epitaph should be read thus: The poore have his Almes, / The worlde has his Praise, / The Heavens have his Soule, and / the Grave has his Bodie. See attached image of the graveslab Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Amended: 2 September, 2014

• ME020-011003 Cross
  Description

  The head and part of the shaft of a disc-headed cross (H c. 0.5m) were in Donore graveyard (ME020-011001-)in 1968. One side is plain and the other has a raised cross in a solid ring, a cap and blank panelling. It was not present in 1984, but it might be inside the locked watch house. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Amended: 15 December, 2014

• ME020-029001 Burnt mound
  Description

  Located on the broad plateau of Platten. Archaeological excavation (E000973) recorded a spread of burnt stone (dims 28m E-W; 23m N-S) in probing topsoil c. 90m N of the excavated fulachta fia (ME020-029002-; ME020-029003-), but it has since become incorporated into a quarry without investigation. (Campbell 1994, 4; 1995, 74, site 3) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 October, 2015

• ME020-029002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated at the head of a SE-NW gully on the broad plateau of Platten. Archaeological excavation (E000973) recorded a triangular spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 19m E-W; 13m N-S; T 0.1-0.23m) with an oval trough (dims 2.2m NW-SE; 1.45m NE-SW; D 1m) at the SW edge that had four layers including organic remains (hazel nuts, seeds of blackberry, buttercup and nettle) from the lowest. A flint scraper was found at the E edge of the spread. The fulacht fia (ME020-029003-) is c. 50m to the E and the burnt mound (ME020-029001-) is c. 120m to the NNE. (Campbell 1994, 2, 3 site 1; 1995e, 73) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 October, 2015

• ME020-029003 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on a broad hollow on the NW-facing slope of Platten. Archaeological excavation (E000973) recorded a rectangular spread of burnt stone (dims 10.5m N-S; 6m E-W; max. T 0.4m) that sealed a rectangular trough (dims 0.95m x 0.7m; D 0.6m) cut into the shale bedrock at N. Beneath the spread at the S was a possible hearth visible as a circular spread of silty clay with charcoal (diam. c. 1m; T 0.2m). Recovered from the stone spread was a burnt fragment of a stone axe. Extending NW from the stone spread were 7 pits (diam. 0.7-1.3m; D 0.1-0.7m) filled with burnt stone. Fulacht fia (ME020-029002-) is c. 50m to the W and the burnt spread (ME020-029001-) is c. 100m to the N. (Campbell 1994 3, 4 site 2; 1995e, 73-4) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 October, 2015

• ME020-036 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• ME020-036001 Cremation pit
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• ME020-063 Kiln
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• ME020-069 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Situated at the base of a N facing hill along an irregular bend in the road that runs from Donore to the River Boyne. This house cluster is identifed as Sheephouse on the OS 6-inch map. The lands at Sheephouse were held as a grange (monastic farm) by the Cistercians until the dissolution in 1539 (Stout 2002, 85-6, Fig. 4). The placename Sheephouse indicates a barn where sheep were sheared and their wool stored in medieval times (Stout 2002, 87). There was a farmhouse here in 1539 (ibid). It lies within the area designated as the Boyne Valley World Heritage Site and the immediate environs of the Battle of the Boyne 1690 Battlefield (ME020-025001-). The house is a two-storey, three-bay stone building with a rear stair block indicating a 17th century date (de Breffny & Ffoliott 1975, 7). It has an external chimney in the E gable. There are blocked windows with punched stone surrounds in the S elevation. There are also possible batters to some of the walls and internal evidence for the use of heavy floor timbers with supporting stone corbels (pers. comm. Mark Jenkinson). On the ground floor is a central lobby with a single room off each side. This plan is repeated on the first floor. There is a local traditions that this farmhouse was used as a rallying point for the Jacobite army during the Battle of the Boyne and that it withstood prolonged attack after the defeat at the ford of Oldbridge (Stout, G. 2002, 122). There is also a tradition that it was used as a hospital during the Battle. A number of liturgical objects of late 15th-16th century including a cross and processional cross were found in a quarry immediately behind the yard of the house in 1899 (Armstrong 1915, 27-31). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 June 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Sheephouse, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3038 (ZIP).

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 Sheephouse with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Sheephouse · Síopús

Area

1,505,196 m² (150.52 ha, 371.94 acres)

Civil parish

Donore, and its townlands

Barony

Duleek Lower

Electoral division

St. Mary's, the unit of the census

Census 2022

16,403 people lived in 5,342 households in the St. Mary's electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 66% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Donore, Oldbridge, Rathmullan, Stalleen

Placenames

Sheephouse 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.