Newstone

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newstone, from 134 m² to 750,189 m² (75.02 ha, 185.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 90 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Apr 2026N/a

  the development will consist of (i) the relocation of existing enclosed softplay area, (ii) the proposed erection of a new 186m2 single storey classroom building, (iii) new enclosed softplay, (iv) 10 no. Staff car-parking spaces, (v) fire tender access road & all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660453

• 25 Nov 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, new entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561276

• 12 Aug 2025Conditional

  the development consists/will consist of 1. Retention of existing detached domestic store/shed to rear of existing dwelling. 2. Retention of existing 1.2m high concrete block wall and piers to part of West boundary. 3. Retention of existing 2.1m high hedgerow to East boundary of site. 4. Retention of existing grass margin from edge of carriageway of public road to proposed front boundary. 5. Permission for removal of existing 1.1m high front boundary fence and erection of proposed 1.1m high roadside boundary fence/hedgerow together with all associated siteworks

  Permission · Meath County Council, 25150

• 22 Jul 2025N/a

  the development consists/will consist of 1. Retention of existing detached domestic store/shed to rear of existing dwelling. 2. Retention of existing 1.2m high concrete block wall and piers to part of West boundary. 3. Retention of existing 2.1m high hedgerow to East boundary of site. 4. Retention of existing grass margin from edge of carriageway of public road to proposed front boundary. 5. Removal of existing 1.1m high front boundary fence and erection of proposed 1.1m high roadside boundary fence/hedgerow together with all associated siteworks

  Permission · Meath County Council, 25133

• 17 Jul 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a one and a half storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, new entrance along with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560746

• 18 Feb 2025Conditional

  planning permission for a proposed two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto existing agricultural drive and use of existing entrance onto public road

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560153

• 16 Feb 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of a new proposed single storey dwelling and detached double garage, opening of a new vehicular entrance to the site and new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560138

• 19 Aug 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a storey and a half dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, new entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460652

• 18 May 2023Refused

  The construction of a single storey dwellinghouse, a waste water treatment system and polishing filter and for associated siteworks.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2360050

• 4 May 2023Conditional

  a proposed single storey portal frame agricultural dry sheep shed of floor area 292m2, and all associated site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23479

• 28 May 2020Conditional

  a 2 Storey Residence, Domestic entrance out on to public road, Packaged Waste Water Treatment system, and Polishing Filter to EPA standards and all associated ancillary site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA200661

• 30 Aug 2019Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling; associated domestic garage, open new vehicular entrance to site, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA191131

• 22 Jan 2019Conditional

  construction of single storey extensions to the side and rear of a dwellinghouse and for associated siteworks

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA190046

• 28 Dec 2018Conditional

  the erection of a storey and a half dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance gates and piers, waste water treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA181593

• 31 Aug 2018N/a

  development consisting of alterations to and change of use of existing garage to granny flat and all associated site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA181011

• 31 May 2018N/a

  alterations to and change of use of existing garage to granny flat and all associated site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA180616

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of the following: (A) To construct an agricultural building consisting of underground effluent tanks with a slatted area over, a central feed passage, a straw bedded area along with straw and machinery storage areas. (B) To construct a covered dungstead building and a separate sheep dip area. (C) All ancillary site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA170399

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 Newstone.

Recorded monuments

• ME003-017001 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Situated on a N-S ridge. The tower house (ME003-017002-) has a number of associated walls to the SE of it. These are up to 1.3m thick and include the SE wall with a large fireplace that has a segmental arch and part of the SW wall of a house (int. dims c. 9m NE-SW; c. 5m plus NW-SE) but the house probably extended as far as the tower house originally (dim. c. 20m NW-SE). The SW wall has a blocked round-headed doorway and a broken out garderobe chute, while in the NE wall (Wth 0.5m) that is probably not original is a segmental-arched doorway. The house is probably 16th or 17th century in date. The above 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 10 June 2016

• ME003-017002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  A roofless gabled structure with a central tower or porch is depicted at Newstonne (89) in Drumcondrath parish on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Slane (http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) the Lord of Slane owned 184 acres there in 1640 and on the premises was ‘one castle, one stone house and one decayed chappell’ (Simington 1940, 386). He owned almost the entire parish (ibid. 365-9). It is situated on a N-S ridge. This is a square structure (ext. dims 9.35m NE-SW; 9.1m NW-SE) with a base-batter on the SW wall and a projecting tower (ext. dims 3.5m NE-SW; 3.5m NW-SE) attached to the W end of the NW wall. At the ground floor the projecting tower has two narrow lights and a double-splay light on the NE wall together with a broken out graderobe chute. The ground floor chamber (int. dims 6.8m NW-SE; 6m NE-SW) has a high NW-SE high barrel-vault with the original doorway in the SW wall, now blocked, and inserted doorways and windows in NE the wall. Evidence of a stairway is not identified and only the projecting tower survives over the vault where there is a garderobe with four slit windows, two of them breaching corners, and it has a NE-SW barrel-vault. Outside the garderobe chamber a doorway in the SW wall of the tower accesses a newel stairs, now blocked, that rose over the garderobe chamber. The house (ME003-017001-) is adjacent to the SE. The above 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 10 June 2016

• ME003-017003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Some dressed and decorated stones from the tower house (ME003-017002-) or later house (ME003-017001-) are built into the present farmhouse. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 May, 2016

• ME003-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a NW-SE ridge. It is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 25m NE-SW; 21m NW-SE) defined y a scarp (H c. 0.5m), with a fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; int. D 1.2m; ext. D 0.8m) and an outer bank (L 7m; Wth of base 3.5m; ext. H 0.8m) on the straight side at NW. The above 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 3 September 2018

• ME003-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of the SE-facing spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. A large embanked circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 80m) is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Fort’, and it is suggested by a curve in a field bank SE-W-NW on the 1908 edition. This is a circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 48m N-S) defined by a slight scarp at S and a fosse suggested by lush growth (Wth 5m) at N, and there is a slight curve in the field bank SSW-WNW. The outline is visible on the OSI aerial images (1995) (OSAP). The above 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 5 September 2018

• ME003-028 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked only on the 1908 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as a Standing Stone. It is situated at the summit of the steep-sided Druminshin Hill. This is a narrow stone with a rectangular cross-section (dims at base 0.43m E-W; 0.23m N-S; H 1.8m). The top had broken off and it was repaired with pitch, while field stones have been gathered around its base. The stone is now leaning to the S and it could be a modern scratching-post. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 August, 2016

Architectural heritage

• Milestone/milepost, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triangular-profile granite milestone, c.1780, inscribed on two sides.

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

At the centre of the townland of Newstone, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Newstone, Drumconrath5 sales

Name

Newstone

Area

2,924,846 m² (292.48 ha, 722.75 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

Ballymacolgan, Balrath, Clonbartan, Drumbride, Drumcondra, Drumgill Upper, Kilriffin, Rathtrasna, Roosky, Sallybrook

Placenames

Newstone 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.