Stonestown
Stonestown is a townland in the civil parish of Moymet, barony of Navan Upper, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is Baile na Cloiche.
- Area
- 164.1 ha
- 406 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 45,468 m² (4.55 ha, 11.24 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stonestown, from 1,865 m² to 569,933 m² (56.99 ha, 140.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 39 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
No planning application touches the townland of Stonestown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Stonestown.
Recorded monuments
- ME030-056 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a slight SE-facing slcope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a single fosse is visible on Apple Maps (2018). It is bisected by the cropmark of an E-W drain, and is within the cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 110m NW-SE; c. 50-70m NE-SW), which is a small unmapped field. It is also visible on OSI Premium (2018), and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps (2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 7 July 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Stonestown.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Stonestown, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2584 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Stonestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Stonestown · Baile na Cloiche
- Area
- 1,641,248 m² (164.12 ha, 405.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moymet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Navan Upper
- Electoral division
- Kilbride, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 576 people lived in 177 households in the Kilbride electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Iskaroon, Kilbride, Meadstown, Moymet, Raheenacrehy
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Stonestown 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.