Walterstown
Townland in the civil parish of Dunboyne, barony of Dunboyne, Co. Meath
- Area
- 58.7 ha
- 145 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 2,937 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Walterstown, from 231 m² to 154,691 m² (15.47 ha, 38.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 · 50 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
16 Jan 2026N/a
permission for a 10-year approval for development at this site consisting of up to approximately 23.99 kilometres (km) of 38 kilovolts (kV) underground cable (UGC) and all associated site and development works at various locations in County Meath with a total site area of c. 25.71 ha. The proposed development consists of the following elements: •Installation of 3no. new 38 kV underground cable routes or cable route sections and all associated site and development works within the administrative area of Meath County Council (MCC) as outlined below and illustrated on the maps herein: •The proposed Coolmine cable route section in MCC is approximately 3.42 km in length crossing the townlands of Hilltown, Jarretstown and Walterstown from east to west. • The proposed Leixlip cable route section in MCC is approximately 4.08 km in length crossing the townlands of Moor of Meath, Walterstown, Rathleek, Cappaghcreen and Milestown from south to north. • The proposed Macetown cable route is wholly within MCC and is approximately 16.49 km in length crossing the townlands of Cappaghcreen, Walterstown, Milestown, Rathleek, Oranstown, Castlefarm, Dunboyne and Bennetstown from south to north. The primary purpose of the proposed underground cables is to provide electrical power to the Dart+ West Railway project as granted under the DART+ West Railway Order (ACP Ref. 314232). The proposed underground cable routes will incorporate the following elements: • Communication links and fibre optic cables between all substations in the same trench as the UGC; • Joint bays and communication chambers along the UGC alignment; • Temporary construction laydown and work areas with ancillary staff facilities and parking, temporary access tracks, passing bays and water and utility crossings; • All associated and ancillary above and below ground site development works, including works comprising or relating to permanent and temporary construction and roadworks and excavation (including HDD) and vegetation clearance. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Assessment (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660066
1 May 2024Conditional
a new, part two storey, part single storey dwelling with new entrance off the public roadway including forming of visibility splays; modification of existing farmyard entrance with gates set back further off the roadway; modification of front boundary and hedgerow to provide sightlines; installation of domestic wastewater treatment system and associated polishing filter; removal of three temporary mobile home structures; and including all associated site works, drainage, landscaping, driveway and boundary treatment
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460304
15 Dec 2022Conditional
permission for a change of house type from that previously granted under Planning Ref. No. 211352, alterations to the domestic gagare consisting of increased ridge height change of location of dwelling house and garage on site and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221644
23 Sept 2022Conditional
permission to construct a part storey and a half, part single storey dwelling house, detached garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance from the public road and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221246
23 Sept 2022Conditional
permission to construct a part storey and a half, part single storey dwelling house, detached garage, new wastewater treatment and percolation area, new entrance from the public road and all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 221247
23 Mar 2022Conditional
the development being retained consists of (a) Building A - home office and gym with loft storage overhead (b) Building B - domestic garage with 1 no. stable, tack room and washroom (c) Building C - 3 no. stables (d) Building D - machinery shed with hay, meal and general storage area together with loft storage area and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22370
15 Jul 2021Conditional
to construct a part storey and a half, part single storey dwelling house, detached garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new well and all associated site development works. Significant Further information / Revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211352
15 Jul 2021Conditional
to construct a part two storey, part single storey dwelling house, detached garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new well and all associated site development works . Significant Further information/Revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211353
21 Jul 2020Conditional
permission to demolish existing single storey dwelling house and shed and to construct a replacement 1.5 storey dwelling house, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA200960
5 Feb 2018Conditional
construction of a single storey garage with mezzanine including 4 rooflights and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA180106
18 Jan 2018N/a
construction of a single storey garage with mezzanine including 4 rooflights and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, RA180037
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 Walterstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Walterstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Walterstown.
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 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2968 (ZIP).
- 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 Walterstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Walterstown
- Area
- 586,593 m² (58.66 ha, 144.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunboyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunboyne
- Electoral division
- Dunboyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunboyne electoral division: 10,698 people in 3,434 households; 78% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappaghcreen, Jarretstown (Co. Kildare), Jarretstown, Milestown, Moor of Meath, Rathleek
- Placenames
- Walterstown 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.