Whistlemount
Townland in the civil parish of Liscartan, barony of Navan Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 29.5 ha
- 73 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 2,153 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whistlemount, from 29 m² to 201,415 m² (20.14 ha, 49.77 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 · 47 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1E2 - General Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 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 Sept 2024Conditional
construction of proposed commercial storage unit, installation of proposed wastewater treatment system and percolation area, including all ancillary site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 24379
27 Aug 2021Conditional
the demolition of the existing derelict dwelling & detached garage and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, 211667
12 Jul 2019Conditional
alterations to the existing Mercedes showroom building, including modifications to the existing entrances, modification to existing glazing, installation of steel posts and installation of new signage and associated works
Permission · Meath County Council, NA190923
24 Jun 2019N/a
alterations to the existing Mercedes showroom building, including modifications to the existing entrances, modification to existing glazing, installation of steel posts and installation of new signage and associated works
Permission · Meath County Council, NA190823
24 May 2019N/a
alterations to the existing Mercedes showroom building, including modifications to the existing entrances, modification to existing glazing, installation of steel posts and installation of new signage and associated works
Permission · Meath County Council, NA190663
9 Jun 2017Unconditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION NA110586 - Retention of change of use of 292m2 first floor storage area to training area, further change of use of 337m2 of first floor storage area to training area and of 53m2 of first floor office to training area and provision of an additional 245m2 first floor infill space altogether comprising 8no. training rooms, staff room/canteen, toilet facilities mezzanine/canteen/service and reception areas with additional parking facilities, upgrading of treatment system and retention of extended compound area. Significant further info/revised plans submitted on this application
Extension of duration, 1 home · Meath County Council, NA170650
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whistlemount.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whistlemount.
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, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2671 (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 Whistlemount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Whistlemount
- Area
- 294,861 m² (29.49 ha, 72.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Liscartan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Navan Lower
- Electoral division
- Navan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Navan Rural electoral division: 31,940 people in 10,373 households; 70% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Knockumber, Liscartan, Nevinstown, Rathaldron
- Placenames
- Whistlemount 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.