Swainstown

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Swainstown, from 427 m² to 39,450 m² (3.94 ha, 9.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 · 32 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 30 Sept 2025Conditional

  the proposed development and amendments will consist of the following: a) Construction of a new energy-efficient washing plant with a capacity of c. 200,000 tonnes per year to support the recovery of sand, gravel, and stone from imported waste and non-waste soil and stone materials, together with all necessary supporting infrastructure and equipment (including gantries, conveyors, washing systems, screeners, and sludge presses) and ancillary works; b) Provision of a new weighbridge with associated control office (c. 20 sqm), controlled barrier and CCTV system, to enable internal queuing of heavy goods vehicles to occur within the site; c) Revisions to the previously permitted restoration scheme, including updated restoration landform profiles reflecting the operational efficiencies of the proposed washing plant, alongside additional planting and biodiversity enhancements to support restoration for agricultural use; d) All associated ancillary and site development works above and below ground level

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2561041

• 15 Sept 2021Conditional

  proposed upgrade of existing septic tank system with new proprietary wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. The development for retention consists of two short term holiday let log cabins and one small short term holiday let wood cabin. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 211809

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 Swainstown.

Recorded monuments

• ME037-070 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a steep S-facing slope on the demesne of Swainstown House, but it is not recorded on any map. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45-50m) defined by a single fosse (Wth c. 3m) is visible on Bing maps (2013). It is also visible on Google Earth (21/04/2019; 04/03/2022; 28/03/2022) where it appears to have a wide entrance gap (Wth c. 35) on the E side. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (28/03/2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 25 January 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Swainstown, 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_2748 (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 Swainstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Swainstown

Area

1,305,355 m² (130.54 ha, 322.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmessan, and its townlands

Barony

Deece Lower

Electoral division

Kilmessan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,879 people lived in 634 households in the Kilmessan electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arlonstown, Athronan, Athronan, Belpere, Dunsany, Kilcarty, Kilmessan, Lambertstown, Tullykane

Placenames

Swainstown 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.