# Vessingtown, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tullaghanoge, barony of Navan Upper, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 978,345 m² (97.83 ha, 241.75 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,843 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tullaghanoge, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/tullaghanoge.md - Barony: Navan Upper - Electoral division: Athboy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,771 people lived in 1,007 households in the Athboy electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/38909 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 161591 - Centre: latitude 53.595678, longitude -6.879094 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Vessingtown, from 209 m² to 367,153 m² (36.72 ha, 90.73 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 145556: 367,153 m² (36.72 ha, 90.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/145556.md - Parcel 165371: 293,049 m² (29.3 ha, 72.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/165371.md - Parcel 146599: 269,452 m² (26.95 ha, 66.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/146599.md - Parcel 197436: 39,999 m² (4 ha, 9.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/197436.md - Parcel 2517859: 13,782 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2517859.md - Parcel 208737: 7,412 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/208737.md - Parcel 158169: 6,911 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/158169.md - Parcel 206572: 5,843 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/206572.md - Parcel 151282: 4,402 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/151282.md - Parcel 215953: 3,002 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/215953.md - Parcel 205333: 2,997 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/205333.md - Parcel 205018: 2,618 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/205018.md - Parcel 185714: 1,616 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/185714.md - Parcel 140266: 223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/140266.md - Parcel 142540: 209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/142540.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; 31 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) No planning application touches the townland of Vessingtown in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC, site code 002299, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002299 - Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA, site code 004232, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004232 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Vessingtown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Vessingtown. ## 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 Vessingtown, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2527, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2527.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/vessingtown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/vessingtown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/vessingtown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Vessingtown 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) - Kildalkey: https://everytownland.com/meath/kildalkey.md - Mitchelstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/mitchelstown-161121.md - Newtown or Ballyfallon: https://everytownland.com/meath/newtown-or-ballyfallon.md - Tullaghanoge: https://everytownland.com/meath/tullaghanoge.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/vessingtown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/vessingtown