Williamstown

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Williamstown, from 329 m² to 210,103 m² (21.01 ha, 51.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 · 70 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Jan 2026Conditional

  the development will consist of the following: 1) to retain elevation and floor plan alterations to sunroom from that previously approved. (2) to retain detached domestic garage, (3) all ancillary site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2660079

• 16 Jan 2026N/a

  the development will consist of the following: 1) to retain elevation and floor plan alterations to sunroom from that previously approved. (2) to retain detached domestic garage, (3) all ancillary site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2660063

• 16 Jul 2024Conditional

  the development consists of 1. The construction of a side Ground Floor Extension to the existing two storey dwelling. 2. Retention Planning Permission for a Rear two Storey Extension 3. Retention Planning Permission for a Domestic Garage with Storage at the rear of the dwelling 4. Revised Elevations and all ancillary site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460537

• 18 Jun 2024N/a

  the development consists of the construction of a side ground floor extension to the existing 2 storey dwelling also retention planning for 1. Enlarging the rear entrance to include a larger utility room 2. Office on the first floor above utility room 3. Garage & storage at the rear of the existing 2 storey dwelling and all ancillary site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460439

• 9 Dec 2022Conditional

  (1) To construct a part single storied part one and a half storied dwelling house and a detached domestic garage (2) To install a proprietary waste waste treatment unit and percolation area (3) To make a new entrance onto the road along with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221612

• 23 Dec 2020Refused

  (a) to construct a part single storied, part one and half storied dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, (b) to install a proprietary waste water tretament unit and percolation area (c) to make a new entrance onto the road along with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA202063

• 23 Oct 2020Conditional

  the formation of new domestic entrance, construction of two-storey dwelling and detached garage, new wastewater treatment and percolation area and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201541

• 9 Oct 2020N/a

  the formation of new domestic entrance, construction of two-storey dwelling and detached garage, new wastewater treatment and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA201456

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 Williamstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Williamstown.

Architectural heritage

• Williamstown, country house, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay three-storey house over basement country house, built c.1770, now derelict. Hipped slate roof with ashlar chimneystacks and parapet. Channelled limestone to entrance level, with string courses between floor and with ashlar limestone to basement and upper floors. Carved limestone dressings to window openings with timber sash windows. Carved limestone doorcase, flanked by Doric columns with entablature and pediment above. Pedimented window over porch.

• Williamstown, building misc, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay three-stage tower, built c.1800, now in ruins. Rubble stone and rendered walls with red brick dressings. Segmental-arched and round-headed openings with red brick dressings. Rubble stone wall to site.

• Williamstown, outbuilding, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of outbuildings and pair of estate worker's houses, built c.1780, set around a central courtyard, now disused. Two ranges of multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding with ashlar and red brick dressings to openings. Pair of detached two-bay two-storey former estate workers' houses with slate roofs and some timber sash windows. Carriage arch and pedestrian entrance set in screen wall. Outbuildings to site.

• Williamstown, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ashlar limestone gate piers, built c.1780, with pair of wrought-iron gates, flanked by wrought-iron railings set on ashlar limestone plinth walls. Terminated by ashlar limestone gate piers set in rubble stone walls which enclose the demesne. Remains of ruined lodge to site.

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 Williamstown.

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

Name

Williamstown

Area

1,180,919 m² (118.09 ha, 291.81 acres)

Civil parish

Dulane, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Maperath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Maperath electoral division: 495 people in 173 households; 91% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cakestown Glebe, Dulane, Knockglass, Mullaghey, Normanstown or Norbrinstown

Placenames

Williamstown 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.