Stephenstown

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stephenstown, from 251 m² to 667,004 m² (66.7 ha, 164.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 51 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 4 May 2023N/a

  The development will consist of a new overground slurry storage tank and all ancillary site development works.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2360037

• 22 Jan 2021Conditional

  the construction of a two storey house, waste water treatment unit and percolation area and new entrance onto the public road

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21136

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 Stephenstown.

Recorded monuments

• ME012-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. This is a raised subcircular grass-covered area (dims 32m N-S; 26.6m E-W) that slopes down to the SW. It is defined by a scarp (at NE: Wth 6m; H 3.2m; at SW: Wth 8m; H 4m) surrounded by a berm (Wth 5m at NE to 10m at SW) NE-S-WNW which is on the site of the fosse and a levelled outer bank. The berm is now defined by a scarp (at NE: Wth 4m; H 2m; at SW: Wth 12m; H 2m). The highest point of the interior is at NE where there is a level area (diam. 13m). The original entrance is not identified but a ramp (Wth of top 3.4m) at SW at the lowest point of the interior is probably secondary as it rises from an ancient quarry on the berm. A field bank ran along the top of the outer scarp N-E in 1984 (SMR file) but it had been removed by 1995 (OSAP). 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 Revision: 15 December 2022

Architectural heritage

• Stephenstown House, country house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey country house, built c.1760, with central flat-roofed porch. Remains of three-bay two-storey earlier house to south-west gable. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Carved limestone architraves and sills to windows with the remains of some timber sash windows. Carved limestone architrave to door opening. Cast-gates and gate piers to the site and to the entrance.

• Stephenstown House, stables, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two ranges multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings, built c.1800, set on two sides of a central courtyard. Accessed through dressed limestone carriage arch. Pitched slate roofs. Rendered and rubble stone walls. Segmental-arched and square-headed openings. Cast-iron water pump to site.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Stephenstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Stephenstown

Area

1,503,135 m² (150.31 ha, 371.43 acres)

Civil parish

Castletown, and its townlands

Barony

Morgallion

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletown electoral division: 1,034 people in 339 households; 88% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnacop, Castletown, Fringestown, Headstown, Kilbride, Painestown

Placenames

Stephenstown 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.