Kearntown
Kearntown is a townland in the civil parish of Drumcondra, barony of Slane Lower, Co. Meath.
Parcel 141927
- Area
- 22,318 m² (2.23 ha, 5.51 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- P5 RA - Rural Area (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied)) The objective
- Townland
- Kearntown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 118.2 ha
- 292 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 33,030 m² (3.3 ha, 8.16 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kearntown, from 1,428 m² to 127,963 m² (12.8 ha, 31.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 54 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
10 Apr 2026Refused
the development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling with attached double domestic garage, septic tank with percolation area, construct new concrete bridge at entrance along with new gates and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660402
28 Apr 2025N/a
the development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling with attached double domestic garage, septic tank with percolation area, construct new concrete bridge at entrance along with new gates and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560423
28 Jun 2023Conditional
the demolition of existing single storey derelict dwelling house, replacement with a new single storey and dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area, provision of new entrance and laneway from public road together with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23650
26 May 2023N/a
the demolition of existing single storey derelict dwelling house, replacement with a new single storey and dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area, provision of new entrance and laneway from public road together with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23560
20 May 2022N/a
the demolition of existing single storey derelict dwelling house, replacement with a new single storey and dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area, provision of new entrance and laneway from public road together with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22660
11 Feb 2022N/a
the demolition of existing single storey derelict dwelling house, replacement with a new single storey and dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area, provision of new entrance and laneway from public road together with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22178
14 May 2021Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, packaged wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, new domestic entrance, new agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21935
7 Jan 2021N/a
the demolition of existing single storey derelict dwelling house and replacement with a new single storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area, use of existing laneway and entrance from public road together with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2113
30 Nov 2018Conditional
a bungalow style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA181430
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 Kearntown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kearntown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kearntown.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kearntown, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2739 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kearntown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Kearntown
- Area
- 1,182,202 m² (118.22 ha, 292.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcondra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slane Lower
- Electoral division
- Drumcondra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,376 people lived in 491 households in the Drumcondra electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corstown, Drumcondra, Greenan, Mooneystown, Rathtrasna
- Placenames
- Kearntown 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.