Woodtown West
Townland in the civil parish of Kildalkey, barony of Lune, Co. Meath; in Irish Baile na Coille Thiar
- Area
- 106.1 ha
- 262 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 10,115 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodtown West, from 34 m² to 184,392 m² (18.44 ha, 45.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 · 42 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
1 Aug 2026N/a
the proposed development consists of 1. Retention permission for a rear ground floor extension to the existing detached domestic garage, and all associated site works and services. (Previous planning reference no. 991927)
Retention · Meath County Council, 2660975
25 Mar 2025Conditional
the development consists of a Dry Fodder Storage Shed, Sheep Handling Yard and all site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2551
13 Feb 2023Conditional
removing and decommissioning the existing septic tank and soak-pit and installing a new septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Meath County Council, 23134
11 Oct 2022Refused
the development applied for consists of removing and decommissioning the existing septic tank and soak-pit and installing a new septic tank and percolation area. Converting the large outbuilding into living accommodation, including internal alterations and upgrades, connecting it to the house's existing services
Permission · Meath County Council, 221333
26 Nov 2021Conditional
the retention of an agricultural barn and for permission for a new entrance to serve the lands
Permission · Meath County Council, 212234
26 Nov 2021Conditional
the development will consist of the retention of 1: minor variations made to single-storey dwelling and detached domestic garage at the time of construction and minor re-location of both and 2: revised site boundaries previously granted under P.82/424. Also for retention of 3: existing shed to rear of dwelling house and 4: existing agricultural entrance and for permission to modify and recess the existing agricultural entrance
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 212235
15 Feb 2021Conditional
development consists of a Sheep Shed with Sheep Handling Yard, Meal Storage Bin, Concrete Apron, Farm Access Road, Agricultural Entrance and all site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 21281
29 Jan 2021N/a
development consists of a Sheep Shed with Sheep Handling Yard, Meal Storage Bin, Concrete Apron, Farm Access Road, Agricultural Entrance and all site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 21157
6 Dec 2019Conditional
amendments to house and domestic garage designs, revised site boundaries, revise site layout, including all ancillary site works from that previously granted under file reference number TA60054
Retention, 2 homes · Meath County Council, TA191653
15 Nov 2019N/a
amendments to house and domestic garage designs, revised site boundaries, including all ancillary site works from that previously granted under file reference number TA60054
Retention, 2 homes · Meath County Council, TA191517
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
- ME029-025 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Situated on a fairly level landscape and c. 500m N of Woodtown House. This feature is depicted as a small circular copse (diam. c.30m) only on the 1836 edition of the OS map but it was recorded in 1955 (SMR file) as a circular platform (diam. 30m) with some tree-stumps defined by a fosse (Wth of top 2.5m; int. D. c. 0.9m; ext. D c. 0.2m). It was probably a tree-ring but its visible profile had been removed by 2005 (OSAP). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 February 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Woodtown West.
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, 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 Woodtown West.
- 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 Woodtown West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Woodtown West · Baile na Coille Thiar
- Area
- 1,060,914 m² (106.09 ha, 262.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildalkey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Lune
- Electoral division
- Cloghbrack, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloghbrack electoral division: 552 people in 178 households; 93% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynadrimna, Coolronan, Lisclogher Great (Co. Westmeath)
- Placenames
- Woodtown West 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.