Micknanstown

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Micknanstown, from 38 m² to 355,330 m² (35.53 ha, 87.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 46 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Sept 2021Conditional

  the retention of a pitched tiled roof to the conservatory to the front of the dwelling house, the 2 rooflights to the front facade, the 2 rooflights to the side (North West) façade of the property and all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211810

• 25 Sept 2017Conditional

  the re-contouring of agricultural land and associated site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within a farm holding of 7.112 hectares for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 5 year planning permission is requested and during this period 91,620 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation

  Permission · Meath County Council, AA171118

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 Micknanstown.

Recorded monuments

• ME033-013 Henge
  Description

  This monument is described by Stout (1991, 265-7) as: This monument, shown as a segment of curved field fence on the OS 6-inch map and noted by Hartnett (1957, 265-7) as having ‘henge’ characteristics, lies at the base of a ridge running E-W, N of the River Delvin. This is a well-drained tillage area with geology and soil type similar to the Fourknocks /Micknanstown enclosure (ME033-025----). A mound (ME033-013----), 26m SE of the enclosure, is probably a satellite passage tomb within the Fourknocks cemetery. The site at Fourknocks /Micknanstwotn lies 625m to the south-east, while the enclosure at Heathtown (ME033-011----) is 700m away to the west-south-west. This embanked enclosure is roughly circular in plan, with a maximum overall diameter of 140m. The bank varies in height from 0.6m in the E, where it has been denuded by constant ploughing, to 1.5m in the SW, where it had been preserved as part of a field boundary. The well-preserved portion of the enclosing bank is flat-topped with an average width of 12m, while the ploughed segment reaches a maximum width of 19m. A depression, 12m wide, can be traced along the inside perimeter of the bank, except for the segment N of the road. This scarped area, which provided the bank material, gives the interior of the enclosure a domed shape. The resistivity survey did not detect this scarped area, which indicates a shallow depth for this feature. There are indications of a break in the bank in the E, but a section taken through this area shows a definite artificial rise. Aerial photographs show the continuation of the internal scarped area at this point. Thus there is no strong evidence for an original entrance into this monument. A resistivity survey confined to the eastern portion of the interior detected a curved section of ditch, 70m long and 3m wide, running inside the line of the scarped area and eccentric to the enclosing bank. No significant spot phosphate results were noted, but the magnetic susceptibility reading suggested the presence of structures within the enclosure. (Hartnett 1957, 265, No. 9; Burl 1969, 17-8; Clare 1986, 311; Moore 1987, 40, No. 310) Date of upload: 17 August, 2017 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 16/1976).

• ME033-014 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Circular mound (diam. 23, H 4m). Henge (ME033-013----) to NW. (PRIA 1957, 205 site 9) This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 16/1976).

• ME033-015001 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Subcircular mound (dims. 7m N-S, 6.4m E-W, H c. 0.7M). (ME033-015002-) c. 20m to NW.

• ME033-015002 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Subcircular mound (dims. 6.4m E-W, 5.5m N-S, H 0.6m) surrounded by wet boggy land. (ME033-015003) to NW and tumulus (ME033-015001-) to SE.

• ME033-015003 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Circular mound (diam. 6m, H0.8m) with no visible fosse. (ME033-015002-) c. 40m to SE.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Micknanstown.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Micknanstown.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Micknanstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Micknanstown

Area

1,472,133 m² (147.21 ha, 363.77 acres)

Civil parish

Clonalvy, and its townlands

Barony

Duleek Upper

Electoral division

Stamullin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,471 people lived in 1,655 households in the Stamullin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 61% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Damselstown, Daw, Fourknocks, Heathtown, Herbertstown

Placenames

Micknanstown 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.