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

Townland in the civil parish of Siddan, barony of Slane Lower, Co. Meath; in Irish An Sián.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 975,643 m² (97.56 ha, 241.09 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,569 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 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: Siddan, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/siddan.md
- Barony: Slane Lower
- Electoral division: Killary, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,291 people lived in 467 households in the Killary electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% 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/37691
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 161483
- Centre: latitude 53.813528, longitude -6.649878 (WGS 84)

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

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Siddan, from 470 m² to 408,747 m² (40.87 ha, 101 acres); 31 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 149543: 408,747 m² (40.87 ha, 101 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/149543.md
- Parcel 138982: 129,796 m² (12.98 ha, 32.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/138982.md
- Parcel 198284: 92,047 m² (9.2 ha, 22.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/198284.md
- Parcel 148335: 79,006 m² (7.9 ha, 19.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/148335.md
- Parcel 208996: 51,453 m² (5.15 ha, 12.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/208996.md
- Parcel 153004: 44,922 m² (4.49 ha, 11.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/153004.md
- Parcel 4847510: 22,494 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4847510.md
- Parcel 161674: 21,120 m² (2.11 ha, 5.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/161674.md
- Parcel 153005: 16,121 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/153005.md
- Parcel 184547: 14,719 m² (1.47 ha, 3.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/184547.md
- Parcel 191861: 12,386 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/191861.md
- Parcel 156691: 11,941 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/156691.md
- Parcel 163669: 8,754 m² (0.88 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/163669.md
- Parcel 137226: 6,423 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/137226.md
- Parcel 200441: 5,439 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/200441.md
- Parcel 160357: 4,591 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/160357.md
- Parcel 5275620: 4,548 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5275620.md
- Parcel 5197810: 3,967 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5197810.md
- Parcel 726656: 3,519 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/726656.md
- Parcel 153006: 3,439 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/153006.md
- Parcel 199072: 3,044 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/199072.md
- Parcel 200440: 2,685 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/200440.md
- Parcel 5197784: 2,482 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5197784.md
- Parcel 154005: 2,444 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/154005.md
- Parcel 144273: 2,211 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/144273.md
- Parcel 2741446: 2,191 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2741446.md
- Parcel 206357: 1,769 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/206357.md
- Parcel 3173093: 1,752 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3173093.md
- Parcel 2741506: 1,383 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2741506.md
- Parcel 203400: 1,344 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/203400.md
- Parcel 5256939: 751 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5256939.md
- Parcel 3231405: 470 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3231405.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 (As Varied), Meath; 63 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2

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

3 applications, newest first.

- 17 Jun 2024, Meath County Council 2460438: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retention of front and rear extensions and alterations to dwelling house , retention of detached stables and change of use of same to domestic storage and car port , retention of site boundaries. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460438/0
- 26 Sept 2022, Meath County Council 221263: Conditional. Permission. proposed all weather astroturf pitch with all associated perimeter fence/netting & floodlighting consisting of 6 no. lighting columns with associated light fittings, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/221263/0
- 2 Jan 2019, Meath County Council LB190001: Refused. Permission. proposed floodlighting to existing training pitch consisting of 6 no 12m high poles (3 on each side of pitch) with associated light fittings and proposed floodlighting to existing car park consisting of 3 no 6m high poles (located on one side) with associated light fittings and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/LB190001/0

Applicants are not shown.

## 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 Siddan.

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

- ME006-042: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME006-042----. John Fleming of Siddan owned 500 acres and the Castle there in 1640 (Simington 1940, 360), and one of the two ruinous buildings that are depicted at Suddan on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Slane is in roughly this location. Polecastle, the townland to the E of Siddan, is included with it in the Down Survey map. Taylor and Skinner's map (1783, 260) depicts two ruins at Suddan S of the old Ardee to Kells road c. 250m to the S. The present location is depicted as the SW quadrant of an embanked enclosure described as the ‘Site of Siddan Castle’ on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The field is known locally as the Moat field, but there is no reason other than the OS maps to think that the castle was located here. It is situated at the S end of a N-S ridge. There is a flat-topped, grass-covered mound (diam. of top 13m N-S; 11.m E-W; H 0.4m at N to 3m) here. 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: 7 June 2016 Shown as ruined castle on and as fragment of ringfort bank on 1837 OS 6" map. Flat-topped mound (diam. 13m N-S, 11m E-W, H 0.4-3m), now on site.
- ME006-043: Fortification, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME006-043----. Situated on top of Gun Hill, it is described in gothic lettering as ‘Cromwell’s Battery’ on the OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a raised rectangular and grass-covered platform (dims 45m NW-SE; 23m NE-SW) defined by scarps (H 1m at SW to 2.5m at NE). The scarp of its NW edge continues S accompanied by slight traces of an outer fosse while curving E until it is truncated by a N-S field bank and double ditch (total Wth c. 10m) that also cuts through the platform. The curving scarp (H 1.4m) with an entrance gap (Wth 8m) at one point creates a D-shaped enclosure (dims 92m N-S; 28m E-W) with the N-S field bank. The rectangular platform may have been a gun-platform commanding the road from Athboy to Ardee which ran through Siddan. Archaeological monitoring (99E0725) of the removal of a pole produced no related material (Russell 2000, 2002). 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 26 October 2018 Amended: 15 December 2022
- ME006-056: Settlement deserted - medieval, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME006-056----. Located on a S-facing slope. Siddan was granted a charter about the middle of the thirteenth century. The placename Sogain, occurring in two twelfth century charters could indicated an older date if Sogain is Siddan (MacNiocaill 1961, 20, 34). The charter is published in the original Latin (MacNiochaill 1964 vol. 1, 319-20) when Philipus Tulynge was the lord of the manor, and the rights of Breteuil were granted to the burgesses. Breteuil is a town in northern France, and its charter granted very liberal rights to its burgesses that became standard, including rents of a shilling a year. However, almost nothing is known of the subsequent history of Siddan, which suggests that it was a complete failure as a town and by the mid-seventeenth century it was just a rural parish. According to the Civil Survey (1655) James Fleming of Siddan was the biggest landowner with 500 acres including what must have been the core of the old settlement as it had a castle, a ruined church (ME006-056001-), two mills, two farmhouses, the broken bridge of Aboy (ME006-035----) and some cabins (Simington 1940, 360). The location of the settlement is not known with certainly but it was probably clustered around the church site. (Bradley and King 1985, 129-32; Bradley 1988-9, 45-6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 October 2018
- ME006-056001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME006-056001-. Situated on a knoll on a S facing slope in the valley of a small SE-NW stream which is c. 30m to the S and which joins the River Dee c. 1.5km to the NW. The parish church of Siddan, dedicated to SS Mary and David, was granted to St. Mary’s Cistercian abbey in Dublin c. 1200 (Bradley and King 1985, 129, 130), and it was still amongst its possessions at the Dissolution in 1540 (White 1943, 30). The names of some of the clergy are known (Cogan 1862-70, 2, 340). Ussher (1622) describes the church and chancel as ruins (Erlington 1847-64, 1, xcvi). According to Dopping’s Visitation (1682-5) the church was in ruins since 1641 and was not enclosed (Ellison 1973, 5). According to Lewis (1837, 2, 594) a church had been built in 1753. The site of the medieval parish church is within a rectangular graveyard (max. dims c. 87m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by masonry walls where the present St. David’s Church of Ireland church that was built in 1881 stands, but the precise location of the earliest church structure is not known. In the graveyard is a cross-slab (Wth 0.5m; H 1.1m) with a latin cross (Wth 0.45m; H 0.46m) in relief (Wth 7cm) on one face. The font from Drumcondrath (ME006-012003-) is now outside the present church. The sandstone font is rectangular (ext. dims 0.58m x 0.58m; H 0.46m) with chamfered corners (Wth 0.12m) and under-panels, and a circular, flat-bottomed basin (diam. 0.47m; D 0.27m). There are holes on the rim for a cover. (Roe 1968, 114) 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: 12 December, 2014
- ME006-056002: Cross-slab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME006-056002-. Situated within the graveyard (ME006-056003-) of the medievel parish church of Siddan. This is a sandstone cross-slab (Wth 0.5m; H 1.1m) with a latin cross (Wth 0.45m; H 0.46m) in relief (Wth 7cm) on one face. The font from Drumcondrath (ME006-012003-) is now outside the present church. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 7 August, 2014
- ME006-056003: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME006-056003-. Situated on a knoll on a S-facing slope in the valley of a small SE-NW stream, which is c. 30m to the S and which joins the River Dee c. 1.5km to the NW. The site of the parish church of Siddan (ME006-056001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (max. dims c. 87m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by masonry walls where the present St. David’s Church of Ireland church that was built in 1881 stands, but the precise location of the earliest church structure is not known. In the graveyard is a cross-slab (ME006-056002-) and the font from Drumcondrath (ME006-012003-) is now outside the present church (ME006-056004-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 May, 2014 Amended: 7 August, 2014
- ME006-056004: Font (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME006-056004-. The font from Drumcondrath (ME006-012003-) is now outside the Church of Ireland church of St. David at Siddan. The sandstone font is rectangular (ext. dims 0.58m x 0.58m; H 0.46m) with chamfered corners (Wth 0.12m) and under-panels, and a circular, flat-bottomed basin (diam. 0.47m; D 0.27m). There are holes on the rim for a cover. (Roe 1968, 114) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 August, 2014
- ME006-065: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME006-065----. Located on the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a fosse feature is eccentrically placed within a larger circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) defined by a wide fosse feature (Wth c. 2-5m). It is visible only on Google Earth (29/06/2018), and an elongated enclosure (dims c. 60m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a single fosse feature extends off to the NNW from the outer fosse at NW. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached view from Google Earth (29/06/2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 June 2019

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)

- Saint David's Church (Siddan), church/chapel, 1880–1885, Regional interest, registry number 14304001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=ME&regno=14304001. Detached Church of Ireland church, built 1881. Comprising four-bay side elevations to nave, with single-bay chancel and vestry attached to the east, apse to the west, and three-stage entrance tower with pinnacles and ashlar spire to the north. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting, stone cross finials and eaves dentils. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls with ashlar limestone buttresses and dressings. Lancet and quatrefoil windows with ashlar dressings and stained glass windows. Pedimented porch with pointed-arch opening having cast-iron double gates. Recessed timber panelled double doors with decorative strap hinges. Set in graveyard with remains of previous church to site. Bounded by snecked limestone wall with ashlar limestone gate piers and cast-iron double gates.
- Bridge, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 14304002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=ME&regno=14304002. Single-arch road bridge, built c.1820. Rubble limestone walls with roughly dressed voussoirs.
- Siddan House, house, 1860–1900, Regional interest, registry number 14304006, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=ME&regno=14304006. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Exposed rubble limestone walls. Red brick window surrounds with stone sills. Round-arched stone doorcase with carved keystone and fanlight above. Rubble limestone outbuilding with red brick dressings and pitched slate roof to east, formerly part of group of outbuildings arranged around a courtyard. Bounded to road by red brick wall and gate piers with wrought-iron gates. Farm accessed by cast-iron gates.

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

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Siddan, about 1 in 10 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Siddan.
- 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/siddan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/siddan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/siddan.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Siddan 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)

- Balsitric: https://everytownland.com/meath/balsitric.md
- Begsreeve: https://everytownland.com/meath/begsreeve.md
- Benjerstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/benjerstown.md
- Caddelstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/caddelstown-160320.md
- Caddelstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/caddelstown-160321.md
- Glebe: https://everytownland.com/meath/glebe-160789.md
- Polecastle: https://everytownland.com/meath/polecastle.md
- Woodtown Lower: https://everytownland.com/meath/woodtown-lower.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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