Thomastown
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbeg, barony of Kells Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 168.9 ha
- 417 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 4,467 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thomastown, from 313 m² to 615,858 m² (61.59 ha, 152.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, 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
28 Aug 2026N/a
retention of extension and conversion of existing bungalow to dormer residence and domestic garage as constructed
Retention · Meath County Council, 26197
15 Jun 2026N/a
planning permission for the further recontouring of agricultural land within an overall area of 10.79 hectares over a six year period to include importation of clean, inert, soil and stone and the continued use of the existing wheelwash and weighbridge and all ancillary site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660732
24 Jan 2023Conditional
the development will consist of the further re-contouring of agricultural land to include additional lands within an overall area of 10.6 hectares. Works will take place over a five-year period and will use approximately 100,000 tonne of imported clean, inert, soil and stone and all ancillary site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2358
1 Jul 2022Conditional
planning permission for the following works to be carried out to the Church of the Nativity of the blessed Virgin Mary Kilbeg: construct new single storey extension to include toilet, office and entrance lobby at rear of Church and install a 3,000 litre precast concrete waste water holding tank on site at Thomastown, Carlanstown, Kells, (revised plans from those granted under planning reference KA/180484). The above proposed works will be carried out to and within the curtilage of a protected structure ref. no. MH011-125
Permission · Meath County Council, 22873
11 May 2018Conditional
Take down existing vestry and boiler house and construct new single storey extension to include Vestry, toilet, boiler house and entrance lobby at rear of Church and install a 3,000 litre precast concrete waste water holding tank on site. The above proposed works will be carried out to and within the curtilage of a protected structure ref. no. MH011-125
Permission · Meath County Council, KA180484
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 Thomastown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Thomastown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Thomastown.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Thomastown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Thomastown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Thomastown
- Area
- 1,688,886 m² (168.89 ha, 417.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbeg, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Lower
- Electoral division
- Cruicetown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cruicetown electoral division: 417 people in 139 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardlonan, Drakerath, Marvelstown, Robertstown, Staholmog
- Placenames
- Thomastown 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.