# Swainstown, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmessan, barony of Deece Lower, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,305,355 m² (130.54 ha, 322.56 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,870 m² (1.19 ha, 2.93 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmessan, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/kilmessan.md - Barony: Deece Lower - Electoral division: Kilmessan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37911 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 161532 - Centre: latitude 53.550847, longitude -6.643517 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Swainstown, from 427 m² to 39,450 m² (3.94 ha, 9.75 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 141243: 39,450 m² (3.94 ha, 9.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/141243.md - Parcel 208915: 32,849 m² (3.28 ha, 8.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/208915.md - Parcel 160098: 29,123 m² (2.91 ha, 7.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/160098.md - Parcel 136277: 21,236 m² (2.12 ha, 5.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/136277.md - Parcel 215842: 2,503 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/215842.md - Parcel 198230: 2,333 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/198230.md - Parcel 147281: 2,301 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/147281.md - Parcel 151591: 427 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/151591.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; 32 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 30 Sept 2025, Meath County Council 2561041: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561041/0 - 15 Sept 2021, Meath County Council 211809: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/211809/0 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 Swainstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - ME037-070: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME037-070----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Swainstown. ## 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 Swainstown, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2748, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2748.zip (ZIP). - 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/swainstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/swainstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/swainstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Swainstown 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) - Arlonstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/arlonstown.md - Athronan: https://everytownland.com/meath/athronan-160060.md - Athronan: https://everytownland.com/meath/athronan-160061.md - Belpere: https://everytownland.com/meath/belpere-160225.md - Dunsany: https://everytownland.com/meath/dunsany.md - Kilcarty: https://everytownland.com/meath/kilcarty.md - Kilmessan: https://everytownland.com/meath/kilmessan.md - Lambertstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/lambertstown.md - Tullykane: https://everytownland.com/meath/tullykane.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/meath/swainstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/swainstown