Umberstown Great

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Umberstown Great, from 2,129 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 901,816 m² (90.18 ha, 222.84 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 · 41 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Umberstown Great 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.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Umberstown Great.

Recorded monuments

• ME042-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the SW end of an esker ridge which extends off to the NE (L c. 50m) and then NW. There is a small SE-NW stream c. 50m to the SW. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. 27.7m NW-SE; 26.2m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.6-4m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1.1-1.3m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 4.8-5m; ext. D 0.45m) with a slight outer counterscarp bank (Wth of base 1.8-3m; ext. H 0.1-0.2m). The fosse and outer bank are missing NW-N. The original entrance (Wth of base 2.6m) and causeway (Wth of top 2m; H 0.4m) are at ENE but there is an old quarry inside the entrance. 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 Mooer Date of revision: 12 August 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Umberstown Great.

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 Umberstown Great with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Umberstown Great

Area

1,767,950 m² (176.8 ha, 436.87 acres)

Civil parish

Laracor, and its townlands

Barony

Moyfenrath Lower

Electoral division

Laracor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Laracor electoral division: 696 people in 213 households; 91% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinrig, Coolderry, Dangan, Rathflesk, Stokestown, Summerstown, Umberstown Little

Placenames

Umberstown Great 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.